Objective Hydrogen buses have the potential to play a significant role in expanding the use of hydrogen in the transport sector. To date, however hydrogen bus demonstrations have been focussed on urban buses only, leaving other public transit applications completely unaddressed. In addition, only a limited number of European regions have had the chance to trial hydrogen bus technology, which means the technology is relatively unknown to the majority of European bus operators.HyTransit will trial a fleet of six hybrid fuel cell buses in daily fleet services, together with one state of the art hydrogen refuelling station in Aberdeen (Scotland) for over three years. This project is designed to contribute to the commercialisation of hydrogen buses in Europe by:• Bringing together an industrial consortium from across Europe to deliver the project, including buses from Van Hool (Belgium) and state of the art refuelling technology from BOC (UK).• Develop six A330 hybrid fuel cell buses specifically modified for long sub-urban routes.• Generating new Intellectual Property for Europe by developing the concept design for the world’s first hybrid fuel cell coach for long-route transit applications.• Exposing the six buses to real world operation with exactly the same service requirements as diesel buses, with 14 hours and 270km per day operation.• A state of the art hydrogen refuelling station will be constructed to serve the bus fleet. The station will be based on ionic compressors, configured to allow a refuelling speed of up to 120 grams per second. The station will house an electrolyser system for on-site hydrogen production.• Taking the first step for a large-scale rollout of hydrogen buses in Scotland. The next logical step after this project is Scottish Government support for the deployment of a minimum of 50 buses. This project will be the first step to realising this vision for Scotland.The overall project objective is to prove that a hybrid fuel cell bus is capable of meeting the operational performance of an equivalent diesel bus on demanding UK routes (including urban and inter-urban driving), whilst considerably exceeding its environmental performance.This will be achieved by bringing together a primarily industrial consortium from five member states to develop, deploy and then monitor the buses in day to day service, with an overarching aim to demonstrate an operational availability for the buses equivalent to diesel (over 90%).The project will also address the main commercial barrier to the technology (namely bus capital cost) by deploying state of the art components, which will reduce the unit cost of the bus to below 1.1 million euros for the first time.Results of the project will be widely disseminated to the general public. In addition, a more targeted approach will be adopted towards the key stakeholders who will be responsible for decisions on the next steps towards commercialisation of the technology. Fields of science social sciencessocial geographytransportpublic transportengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfuel cellsengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energyhydrogen energy Programme(s) FP7-JTI - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Joint Technology Initiatives Topic(s) SP1-JTI-FCH.2011.1.1 - Large-scale demonstration of road vehicles and refuelling infrastructure IV Call for proposal FCH-JU-2011-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme JTI-CP-FCH - Joint Technology Initiatives - Collaborative Project (FCH) Coordinator BOC LIMITED EU contribution € 720 000,00 Address PRIESTLEY ROAD 10 THE SURREY RESEARCH PARK GU2 7XY Guildford United Kingdom See on map Region South East (England) Surrey, East and West Sussex West Surrey Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Hamish Nichol (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all VAN HOOL N.V. Belgium EU contribution € 84 504,00 Address BERNARD VAN HOOL STRAAT 58 2500 Lier Koningshooikt See on map Region Vlaams Gewest Prov. Antwerpen Arr. Mechelen Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Paul Jenne (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ABERDEEN CITY COUNCIL* United Kingdom EU contribution € 5 732 657,40 Address BROAD STREET TOWN HOUSE AB10 1FY Aberdeen See on map Region Scotland North Eastern Scotland Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Activity type Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Yasa Ratnayeke (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data STAGECOACH BUS HOLDINGS LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 133 377,60 Address DUNKELD ROAD 10 PH1 5TW PERTH See on map Region Scotland Eastern Scotland Perth & Kinross and Stirling Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Andrew Jarvis (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data HYDROGEN, FUEL CELLS AND ELECTRO-MOBILITY IN EUROPEAN REGIONS Belgium EU contribution € 55 320,00 Address Avenue des Arts 3-4-5 1210 BRUSSELS See on map Activity type Other Administrative Contact Marieke Reijalt (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data PLANET PLANUNGSGRUPPE ENERGIE UND TECHNIK GBR Germany EU contribution € 135 400,00 Address DONNERSCHWEER STRASSE 89/91 26123 Oldenburg See on map Region Niedersachsen Weser-Ems Oldenburg (Oldenburg), Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Klaus Stolzenburg (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data BALLARD POWER SYSTEMS EUROPE AS Denmark EU contribution € 42 520,00 Address MAJSMARKEN 1 9500 Hobro See on map Region Danmark Nordjylland Nordjylland Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Kristina Fløche Juelsgaard (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ELEMENT ENERGY LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 96 220,00 Address SUITE 1 BISHOP BATEMAN COURT THOMPSON'S LANE CB5 8AQ CAMBRIDGE See on map Region East of England East Anglia Cambridgeshire CC Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Ben Madden (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data