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The Promises and Challenges of Future Transportation in Smart Cities

Hi guys! Hope the research is going well. Wanted to start up a discussion surrounding a facet of Smart Cities: transportation.


Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) have dominated recent visions of what could constitute a Smart City. They hold a lot of potential for data sharing with the goal of understanding the two-way connection between user needs and service performance. Purchases of electric vehicles (EVs) are already skyrocketing. This also adds to the promise of cleaner transportation system. However, a huge challenge arises with charging stations, as both types of vehicles have very different charging requirements. The energy grid needed for such an expansion is fairly daunting and the actual demand for energy could cause many issues as well.

If any city wishes to transform to a Smart City, they must keep in mind the crucial need for integration of CAVs and EVs into the energy grid and the challenges that could arise with such a task. This link explains the concept in more detail. Please give it a read and contemplate possible solutions to this problem that you could bring up in committee! We are counting down the days :)

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