In September 2024, we reached milestone four within Work Package Three of the MODI project. The involved vehicle providers, DAF, Einride, and Volvo, have completed their first iteration of implementation and testing and are now well on their way to delivering vehicles for the project demonstration. By extension, the requirements set earlier in the project have now been reviewed by the vehicle provider and are part of the development plan moving forward.
In the first iteration of implementation and testing, each vehicle provider had a different focus, as each was committed to varying objectives in different use cases. For Einride, the focus of the first iteration was testing the loading and unloading requirements connected to their participation in the use case Sweden. For DAF, the localisation system has been implemented and tested at Broekman Logistics in Port of Rotterdam. For Volvo, the first iteration mainly involved the implementation of an ITS-G5-based V2X stack with the latest protocol version and bench testing, where appropriate V2X hardware was installed in a truck.