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A drone flies in front of a U-M Survival Flight helicopter that landed at the the Mcity Test Facility on the University of Michigan’s North Campus. Mcity, a public-private mobility research partnership is expanding its ground mobility work to include air mobility with the launch of M-Air.

A pair of drones—including a white Cobalt cargo delivery drone, used by Brighton, Michigan-based company blueflite—and two ground robots operated by University of Michigan staff conduct tests at the Mcity Test Facility on U-M's North Campus.

This image of the Mcity Test Facility was created using high-fidelity synthetic sensor simulation data, rendered via the NVIDIA Sensor RTX APIs.

An actual photo of the Mcity Test Facility, left, is compared to an image from a digital twin of the track.

A specially equipped Lincoln MKZ, based at Mcity, is an open-source connected and automated research vehicle available to U-M faculty and students, startups and others to help accelerate innovation.

Building facades up to two stories high line the streets of Mcity’s urban downtown area.

Mcity is the world’s first purpose-built facility for testing connected and automated vehicles and technologies under controlled, realistic conditions before trying them out in real traffic.

Building facades up to two stories high simulate an urban downtown area at the Mcity Test Facility.

An aerial view of the Mcity Test Facility, which sits on a 32-acre site and features about 16 acres of roads and traffic infrastructure.

The Mcity Test Facility at sunrise.

A 1,000-foot stretch of road at Mcity simulates a limited access freeway, with entrance and exit ramps, overhead road signs, guardrails and other features.

A highway overpass is simulated at the Mcity Test Facility by a tunnel that blocks vehicles from wireless and satellite signals.

An Mcity Lincoln MKZ driverless open-source research vehicle on the streets of the Mcity Test Facility.

An Mcity driverless Lincoln MKZ research vehicle on a traffic roundabout at the Mcity Test Facility.

The Mcity Test Facility is a controlled environment designed for safe, repeatable testing of connected and automated vehicle technologies, such as bicycle detection.

An Mcity driverless Lincoln MKZ research vehicle avoids a collision during a 2017 demo of connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technologies.

A driverless electric shuttle manufactured by French firm NAVYA, was introduced to North America at the Mcity Test Facility in December 2016.

The Mcity Driverless Shuttle was used to carry passengers as part of a research project on U-M's North Campus in 2018-19.

The Mcity Driverless Shuttle on its route at U-M's North Campus Research Complex as part of a research project to learn more about consumer attitudes and reactions to AV technology. The research project launched in June 2018 and ran through 2019.

Mcity OS software is controlled using a variety of internet-enabled devices, such as a smartphone, tablet/laptop or in-vehicle computer system, through the Mcity OS Skyline app.