SCANIA CV AB

Their core work

Scania is a major Swedish manufacturer of heavy commercial vehicles — trucks and buses — headquartered in Södertälje. In H2020, they contributed as an industrial end-user and testing partner for advanced driver assistance systems, automated driving, truck platooning, and vehicle reliability. Their R&D participation focuses on making commercial road transport safer, more aerodynamic, and increasingly autonomous, bringing real-world fleet data and vehicle integration expertise to research consortia.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Scania's early H2020 work (2015–2018) centered on driver-focused safety — detecting drowsiness, inattention, stress, and other impairments to adapt ADAS and HMI systems accordingly. From 2017 onward, the focus shifted decisively toward vehicle autonomy infrastructure: precise satellite positioning (Galileo/RTK), V2I communication, truck platooning, and sensor fusion for connected automated driving. By 2020, they had expanded further into electronic reliability and AI-based predictive quality for automotive components.

Scania is moving from driver-assistance research toward full vehicle autonomy and fleet-level connected driving, making them an increasingly relevant partner for autonomous commercial transport projects.

How they like to work

Scania participates exclusively as a partner or third party — never as coordinator — which is typical for large OEMs that contribute vehicles, fleet data, and real-world testing infrastructure rather than leading research management. With 211 unique partners across 21 countries and mostly large Innovation Action consortia (4 of 7 projects), they operate as an industrial anchor in broad European consortia. Their role is to ground academic research in commercial vehicle reality.

Scania has built a wide European network of 211 unique partners across 21 countries, reflecting their role as a sought-after OEM partner in large-scale transport and automotive research consortia.

What sets them apart

Scania brings something most research partners cannot: access to real commercial truck fleets, production-grade vehicle platforms, and decades of heavy-vehicle engineering expertise. For any consortium working on automated driving, truck platooning, or road transport safety, Scania offers the credibility and testing infrastructure of a top-tier OEM. They are one of very few heavy commercial vehicle manufacturers actively engaged in H2020 automated driving research.

Highlights from their portfolio

• ENSEMBLE
  Largest funding (EUR 2.2M) — multi-brand truck platooning across Europe, directly relevant to Scania's core business of long-haul commercial transport.
• ADASANDME
  Addressed the human factor in automated driving — detecting driver impairment (drowsiness, stress, emotions) to adapt ADAS behavior in real time.
• PRoPART
  Combined Galileo EGNSS with ultra-wideband and sensor fusion for centimeter-level truck positioning, a key enabler for autonomous freight corridors.