Overview
- The capital and business alliance sets a framework to develop autonomous shuttles and buses that improve access to JR Central railway stations.
- JR Central invested in TIER IV and flagged potential future linkage with the Linear Chuo Shinkansen to create new flows of people and regional value.
- TIER IV was selected by NEDO to build a large-scale dataset and AI platform that combines real-world driving data with multimodal synthetic data for rare scenarios.
- The NEDO project includes automated labeling and a shared data infrastructure intended to reduce development burdens for Japanese autonomous driving developers.
- Both efforts are in early stages focused on data collection, synthetic data generation, platform construction and pilot planning rather than commercial deployment.