EAGER: Autonomy-enabled Shared Vehicles for Mobility on Demand and Urban Logistics

三种新兴技术为发达国家的人口密集城市提供了独特的机会：汽车共享、电动汽车和自动驾驶系统。将这些技术紧密结合可以帮助实现按需移动和城市物流服务的联合。该项目侧重于设计和算法的共同开发，以实现服务于这一目的的新概念。有说服力的电动汽车（PEV）是一辆在自行车道上行驶的三轮车。PEV可以自动驾驶到下一个客户；它还可以为在线订购商品的客户提供包裹。在算法方面，该项目将研究(i)自行车道自动导航的可证明安全算法，以及（ii）基于需求和城市物流的联合移动的高性能路由和再平衡算法。在设计方面，该项目将研究(i)最能采用相关CPS技术的车辆级设计，以及（ii）有助于实现PEV概念的系统级设计和城市规划实践。这些项目负责人将与波士顿市合作，参加全球城市团队挑战赛，展示PEV概念及其对未来智慧城市的潜在影响。

Three emerging technologies provide unique opportunities for denser cities throughout the developed world: vehicle sharing, electric vehicles, and autonomous systems. Bringing these technologies close together can help enable joint mobility-on-demand and urban-logistics services. This project focuses on the co-development of design and algorithms to enable new concepts that will serve this purpose. The Persuasive Electric Vehicle (PEV) is a tricycle navigating in the bike lanes. The PEV can autonomously drive itself to its next customer; it can also deliver packages to its customers who order goods online. On the algorithmic front, the project will investigate (i) provably-safe algorithms for autonomous navigation in bike lanes, and (ii) algorithms for high-performance routing and rebalancing for joint mobility on demand and urban logistics. On the design front, the project will investigate (i) the vehicle-level designs that can best embrace the relevant CPS technologies, and (ii) the system-level designs and urban planning practices that can help enable the PEV concept. The PIs will collaborate with the City of Boston and participate in the Global City Teams Challenge, where they will demonstrate the PEV concept and its potential impact on future smart cities.