Aurora project, Kolari-Muonio

The world’s first Arctic test bed for intelligent traffic systems and automatic driving has been built in Fell Lapland, on Finnish national road 21. The Aurora Intelligent Road is a nine-kilometer section of an instrumented road that serves as a testbed for automatic traffic and a center of excellence in the Arctic conditions of Lapland. The road section is used for testing and researching traffic automation and automatic driving. The research also yields information regarding how automatic driving affects roads and what it requires from road maintenance.