Calif. Office Park Gets No-Hands Shuttle

Bishop Ranch is an affluent and progressive office park in Contra Costa county, California. BR already promotes use of non-SOV (single occupancy vehicle) modes of  transit, carpooling, biking, etc. It goes further by providing information, incentives, and connections for utilizing non-SOV modes.

Now BR will be the first office park in the nation with driverless shuttles that will ferry people to transit and shared-use connections - a driverless feeder service that will travel at low speeds. Service will begin next summer in 2016. EasyMile driverless vehicles, shown above, will be the provider. EasyMile, a French company, has already been involved with pilot projects in Europe, including the CityMobil2 program in Switzerland.

California clearly in the lead
This is the second private driverless shuttle service that is scheduled to begin in California. The other was announced recently for the campus of Santa Clara University.