L6: Transportation in Smart Cities

Question 1

City transport electrification

Answer 1

o Public charging stations
o Affordable electric fuel costs
o Integrate electric vehicles into the grid
o Support EV adoption
o Support autonomous vehicles and electrification!
o Electrify public fleets
o Provide consumer incentives / rebates

Question 2

EV adpotion challenges

Answer 2

• limited driving range and associated anxiety
• long charging times
• non ubiquity of charging station

Question 3

EV adoption opportunities

Answer 3

• Optimized charging and battery consumption prediction
• EV status tracking
• Desicion support for grid operation

Question 4

Edmonton Case study projects

Answer 4

• smart street lights
• curbside ev chargng pilot
• autonomous vehicle pilot project
• drive variabe speed pilot study
• active aurora: first connected vehicle test bed network

Question 5

Google Driverless car

Answer 5

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Question 6

The Future Maas

Answer 6

Mobility as a Service
- integrating various forms of transportation services into a single mobility service accessible on demmand
- Integrates transport services, info, payment and ticketing

Question 7

4 pillars of autonomous driving

Answer 7

o Localization and map building
o Path planning and decision making
o Motion control
o Environment perception and modelling

Question 8

• Autonomous driving key technologies

Answer 8

o Multi sensor fusion-based environment perception and modelling
o Vehicle localization and map building
o Path planning and decision making
o Low level motion control

Question 9

• Autonomous Driving and Smart Vehicle

Answer 9

o Self driving cans that combine a variety of sensors to perceive their surrounding:
 Radar
 LiDAR
 Sonar
 GPS, odometry, and inertial measurement units

Question 10

• Smart Traffic Management

Answer 10

o Detectors and sensors: need upstream data
o Centralized computer system: analyze data and mange traffic signal controllers at intersections
o Comm network: must be reliable,
o Compatible traffic signal controllers: must replace or retrofit the traffic controller to accommodate the smart traffic signal system

Question 11

• Libelium Smart Parking

Answer 11

o 2 different detection systems: radar and magnetic, 99% accurate
o Wireless comm protocol: LoRaWAN
o Triple installation deployment

Question 12

• Probe Vehicles

Answer 12

o Hazard light alert and slippery road alert (Volvo)
o If the car detects a slick patch of road it will send data to other cars

Question 13

• Roadside camera recognition

Answer 13

o Helps traffic flow and safety.
o Vehicle ID
o Speed measurements
o Detection of traffic violations
o ANPR / LPR / ALPR

Question 14

• Dedicated Short Range Comms (DSRC)

Answer 14

o 802.11p-based wireless comms tech
o Highly secure, high speed, direct comms
o 5.9 GHz band, direct low energy, low latency
o V2V and V2I

Question 15

• GPS segments

Answer 15

 1) space segment:
* 24 operating satellites transmitting one-way signals that give the current GPS satellite portion
 2) control segment
* A global network of ground facilities that track GPS satellites, perform analyses, and send commands
 3) user segment

Question 16

• GPS:

Answer 16

o US owned utility that provides users with positioning, navigation, and timing services

Question 17

• Toyota Intelligent Transport system

Answer 17

o Environmentally safe intelligent transport that encompasses people environment and transport
o Using an ITS proving ground to test interactions controlled using 700Mhz signals and the “safe driving support system”

Question 18

Connected Vehicle technology types

Answer 18

o Vehicle to vehicle, Vehicle to Infrastructure, Vehicle to everything

Question 19

Smart transportation major components?

Answer 19

• Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications
• Global positioning systems
• Dedicated short range communications
• Mobile telephony, e.g., 3G, 4G, 5G, LTE, etc.
• Roadside camera recognition
• Probe vehicles or devices

Question 20

What is smart / intelligent transportation?

Answer 20

an advanced application which aims to provide innovative services relating to different modes of transport and traffic management and enable users to be better informed and make safer, more coordinated, and ‘smarter ’ use of transport networks.

Question 21

What are the long term issues and challenges for smart transportation?

Answer 21

• high traffic density
• long transportation times and high costs
• high carbon dioxide emissions
• expanded suply chains
• information safety and privacy
• coordination, easy access and universality
• funding for ITS projects
• rebuild road network: upgrade the existing infrastructure
• training ITS workforce

Question 22

ADAS

Answer 22

Advanced driver assistance systems
- - information based assistance systems: innatention alert, driver performance, traveller info
- manipulation based assistance systems: operate in case of emergency or when asked by the driver

Question 23

4 key tech for autonomous driving

Answer 23

• multi sensor fusion based environment perception and modelng
• vehicle localization and map building
• path planning and desicion making
• low level motion control