TUM gets up to €20 million to test autonomous buses in public transport

Germany's Federal Ministry of Transport has granted up to €20 million to RISE, a project led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) that tests autonomous buses in real conditions to prepare their safe use in public transport.

The funding runs from October 1, 2026, to September 30, 2029. The Munich site of the German Centre for Future Mobility (DZM), which TUM leads, opened at the Munich summit on autonomous driving, where about 400 people from politics, industry, research and transport met.