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

全球都在追求“智慧城市”的愿景，将城市人居环境转变为高效率、高质量和可持续发展。搬家 展望智能城市的未来，加拿大和世界各地的城市正在进行重大变革 能源和移动系统。共享经济的蓬勃发展，电动 车辆(EV)、分散的可再生能源整合，伴随着 自动驾驶的影响，敦促我们评估它们的协同效应的影响。这项拟议的研究计划的长期目标是发展跨学科 城市规模整合的模型、数据分析和管理见解 移动性和能源系统，以最大限度地提高全市利益。我们 将通过关注两个相互关联的研究主题来追求这一使命：主题 1-设计大规模采用电动汽车的城市移动系统。主题2-- 在新能源和移动技术的存在下，在全市范围内将电动汽车整合到电网基础设施中。 主题1 研究将开发一个整体框架来设计和分析大规模 城市公交电动汽车共享系统。尽管汽车共享一直是 电动汽车共享已经成熟，并在文献中受到了极大的关注，但仍处于起步阶段。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的优化模型、先进的求解算法和实用的管理见解。 同时，主题2研究将评估电动汽车移动性支持未来城市电网基础设施的潜力。特别是，拟议的研究计划将开发用于调查的模型和分析 共享自主电动汽车(SAEV)采用什么样的控制策略和什么机制可以提高自给自足 以及城市微电网的弹性(其中电力生产商和消费者聚集在有界限的本地网络中)。这是与城市电动汽车库存的联合调度 微电网的运行可能会对未来的城市 能源和机动性格局，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推动 新兴的智慧城市运营管理领域，也是首批助力从业者 和城市规划者推出电动汽车共享计划并促进 加深城市机动性和能源系统的融合。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。通过与我们的密切合作，培训将进一步丰富 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.