Smart Mobility

A free public bicycle system started with an approach integrating universities and mass transit, along with other key destinations of the city to serve tourists.

Copenhagen Super Bikeways are a network of bikeways under development in the periphery of Copenhagen, Denmark. A collaboration between Copenhagen Municipality and 18 surrounding municipalities in Greater Copenhagen. The objective is to facilitate and increase commuting by bicycle.

Smart motorways and expressways: Over the coming years, a national spine of smart motorways will add more than 400 miles of extra capacity to our highways. And we’ll introduce a new standard for A roads, known as ‘expressways’: with modernised junctions, refuge areas and specialist technology to quickly detect incidents and get traffic moving again. Unblocking bottlenecks: We’ll tackle congestion hotspots across the country, ranging from improving the A14, to progressing plans for a new lower Thames crossing. Safer roads: Our roads are already some of the safest in the world.

A lot has been written about intelligent highways since the eighties. However, until now the focus of innovation was on the car. Heijmans and Studio Roosegaarde tackle this issue on a large scale by innovating the road deck with designs such as ‘Glow-in-the-dark Lining’, ‘Dynamic Paint’, ‘Interactive Light’ and ‘Electric Priority Lane’. Together they want to make the road sustainable and interactive through means of smart lighting, harvesting energy, and traffic signs that adapt to the road situation.

Design of EV charging station whose supply source is regenerative braking system embedded in rolling stock. Power electronics enable to integrate the recovered electricity and control the transformation centre in appropriate way. In parallel, commuters may combine both road transportation means with railway for different purposes (urban routes, long distance) by using EVs.

The Electric Vehicle Rapid-Charge Station (EVSTAT) has been designed to serve the fast-emerging electric vehicle market, with the concept being tested in the US. The station can fully charge an electric vehicle in under 25 minutes using high voltage DC charging. This new building typology would also provide Club-Class relaxation areas that impart essential business services for the early adopters of on-thego lifestyles, together with retail and vehicle rental spaces, refreshments and seamless wireless connectivity.

E.ON as the largest domestic energy supplier grants a complete package of services providing all the benefits of e-mobility for consumers. Not only sells chargers but carries out the execution, ensures continuous operation and supplies electricity. In Hungary so far 16 public charges installed based on its own funds and further 4 fast charge points is currently taking place in Szolnok, Debrecen, Győr and Kaposvár. They are member of the Ányos Jedlik Cluster and they support all major organization which operates in this field.

The Operation Center has three functional modules, one for managing the charging stations, one for managing customers contracts and the last one to manage the recharges in a smart way, according to the power grid status or to the real time price of energy.

The cost and logistics involved in running electric buses have prevented them from becoming mainstream in urban environments, however, this five-year demonstration pilot has brought wireless charging technology to power a fleet of eight electric buses in Milton Keynes. The technology enables the electric buses to run non-stop throughout the working day – up to 17 hours a day, seven days week – with a significantly lower carbon footprint than their diesel counterparts. The buses draw power wirelessly from 120kW charger plates embedded in the road at either end of the 15-mile route.

An Offboard High Power Charger is fast, reliable, and versatile. Offboard High Power Chargers can be adapted to the individual route profile and the battery size of the bus. One charging terminal can be used to charge several buses successively. Charging times of three to nine minutes are ideal for scheduled services.