Towards a Smart-City Future: Urban-Scale Integration of Mobility and Energy Systems

“智慧城市”的愿景已在全球范围内得到追求，以将城市人居环境转变为上级效率、质量和可持续性。移动 为了迎接智能城市的未来，加拿大和世界各地的城市正在进行重大转型， 能源和交通系统。共享经济的繁荣，电力 电动汽车（EV），分散的可再生能源整合，随着沿着出现 自动驾驶的发展，敦促我们评估其协同作用的影响。这项研究计划的长期目标是发展跨学科的 模型，数据分析和管理见解，用于城市规模的一体化， 交通和能源系统，以最大限度地提高整个城市的利益。我们 我将通过关注两个相互关联的研究主题来完成这一使命： 1.设计以大规模采用电动汽车为特色的城市交通系统。主题2 - 在新能源和移动技术的存在下，全市范围内将电动汽车整合到电网基础设施中。 主题1 研究将制定一个设计和分析大规模的整体框架， 城市交通的电动汽车共享系统。虽然汽车共享一直是 电动汽车共享技术已经成熟并在文献中受到极大关注，但电动汽车共享仍处于婴儿阶段。拟议的研究计划将为城市规模电动汽车共享的基础设施规划和车队运营管理提供集成优化模型，先进的解决方案算法和实用的管理见解。 与此同时，主题2研究将评估电动汽车在支持未来城市电网基础设施方面的潜力。 特别是，拟议的研究计划将开发模型和分析， 什么样的控制策略以及在什么样的机制下共享自主电动汽车（SAEV）可以提高自给自足 城市微电网（电力生产者和消费者聚集在划定的地方网络中）的弹性。此次联合调度城市电动汽车库存， 微电网运营可能对未来城市产生巨大影响 能源和流动性景观，但在文献中没有得到很好的考虑。 这项研究计划的成果不仅将促进 智慧城市运营管理这一新兴领域，也是最早帮助实践者的 和城市规划者推出电动汽车共享计划， 城市交通和能源系统的深度融合。该研究计划将 鉴于其跨学科性质，为两名HQP提供出色的培训。培训将通过我们与以下机构的密切合作得到进一步丰富： 其他机构，如加州大学伯克利分校和劳伦斯伯克利国家 实验室

The vision of “smart city” has been pursued worldwide to transform urban habitats into superior efficiency, quality and sustainability. Moving forward to a smart-city future, cities in Canada and around the world are undertaking major transformations in their energy and mobility systems. The booms of the sharing economy, electric vehicles (EV), decentralized renewables integration, along with the emergence of autonomous driving, urge us to evaluate the implications of their synergy. The long-term goal of this proposed research program is to develop cross-disciplinary models, data analytics and managerial insights for urban-scale integration of mobility and energy systems to maximize citywide benefits. We will pursue this mission by focusing on two interrelated research themes: Theme 1 - Designing urban mobility systems featuring large-scale EV adoption. Theme 2 - Citywide integration of EVs to electrical grid infrastructure in the presence of new energy and mobility technologies. Theme 1 research will develop a holistic framework of designing and analyzing large-scale EV sharing systems for urban transit. Although car sharing has been maturing and received great attention in the literature, EV sharing is still in its infant stage. The proposed research program will provide integrated optimization models, advanced solution algorithms and practical managerial insights for infrastructure planning and fleet operations management for urban-scale EV sharing. In a parallel effort, Theme 2 research will evaluate the potential of EV mobility for supporting future urban electrical grid infrastructure. In particular, the proposed research program will develop models and analytics to investigate with what control strategies and under what mechanisms shared autonomous electric vehicles (SAEV) can improve the self-sufficiency and resilience of urban microgrids (in which electricity producers and consumers are clustered into delimited local networks). This joint dispatch of urban EV stock with microgrid operations can potentially exert large impact on the future urban energy and mobility landscape, but has not been well considered in the literature. The outcome of this research program will not only advance the emerging field of smart-city operations management, but also be among the first to help practitioners and city planners to launch EV sharing programs and facilitate deeper integration of urban mobility and energy systems. The research program will provide excellent training for two HQP given its interdisciplinary nature. The training will be further enriched by our close collaborations with other institutes such as UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.