{"id":175162,"date":"2025-10-17T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmobility.news\/?p=175162"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:04:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:04:58","slug":"de-lijn-launches-self-driving-minibuses-in-leuven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmobility.news\/nl\/2025\/10\/17\/de-lijn-launches-self-driving-minibuses-in-leuven\/","title":{"rendered":"De zelfrijdende minibussen van De Lijn in Leuven hebben meer tijd nodig (update)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uiteindelijk zou het Vlaamse openbaarvervoerbedrijf De Lijn vanaf half november zelfrijdende shuttlebusjes inzetten om passagiers tussen het station van Leuven en Heverlee te vervoeren. Een Belgische primeur: autonome voertuigen die in druk stadsverkeer met normale snelheden tot 40 km\/u rijden. Maar er is meer tijd nodig om het systeem te verfijnen en de volledige ingebruikname is nu uitgesteld tot december.<\/p><p>\u201cDe gebruikte software past zich goed aan het stadsverkeer in Leuven aan\u201d, zegt Marco Demerling, woordvoerder van De Lijn. \u201cMaar de autonome shuttles moeten voldoende testkilometers afleggen, zodat de kunstmatige intelligentie (AI) aan boord voldoende getraind is voor de situatie in Leuven.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Deze inhoud is gearchiveerd. <a href=\"https:\/\/newmobility.news\/nl\/subscription\/\">Inloggen of abonneren<\/a> tot een niveau dat toegang heeft tot gearchiveerde inhoud.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eventually, from mid-November, Flemish public transport company De Lijn would be operating self-driving shuttle minibuses to transport passengers between Leuven station and Heverlee. 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A Belgian first: autonomous vehicles driving in busy city traffic at normal speeds of up to 40 km\/h. But more time is needed to fine-tune and becoming fully operational is now postponed to December.\u201cThe software in use adapts well to the city traffic in Leuven,\u201d says Marco Demerling, spokesperson for De Lijn. \u201cBut the autonomous shuttles need to cover enough test kilometers so that the artificial intelligence (AI) on board is sufficiently trained for the situation in&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmobility.news\/nl\/category\/autonomous-driving\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Autonomous driving<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/newmobility.news\/nl\/category\/belgium\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Belgium<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/newmobility.news\/nl\/category\/mobility\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Mobility<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/newmobility.news\/nl\/category\/public-transport\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Public transport<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/newmobility.news\/nl\/category\/road-safety\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Road safety<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/newmobility.news\/nl\/category\/top-stories-today\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Top Stories Today<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"Luc Joris","url":"https:\/\/newmobility.news\/nl\/author\/belga-5\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>De Lijn&#039;s self-driving minibuses in Leuven need more time (update) - newmobility.news<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newmobility.news\/nl\/2025\/10\/17\/de-lijn-launches-self-driving-minibuses-in-leuven\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"nl_BE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"De Lijn&#039;s self-driving minibuses in Leuven need more time (update) - newmobility.news\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Eventually, from mid-November, Flemish public transport company De Lijn would be operating self-driving shuttle minibuses to transport passengers between Leuven station and Heverlee. 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