Mobility?

Navigate the Landscape of Mobility!

Dive into a concise overview of key issues shaping the world of mobility.

From terrestrial transport to aerial solutions, Smart Cities, and sustainable innovations, this page offers a snapshot of the essential themes defining the future of movement.

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(1) Terrestrial Mobility

A concept that encompasses all forms of ground transportation, including public transportation, private vehicles, and freight transport. It includes various modes of transport.

• Electric Vehicles (EV) and Charging Infrastructure: Focuses on the adoption and proliferation of electric vehicles (EV), improvements in battery technology, optimization of charging infrastructure, and the effective recycling of battery waste.

• Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV): Development of mobility that allows autonomous driving by connecting to the internet, other vehicles, and surrounding infrastructure through sensors, cameras, and communication systems.

• Public Transportation: Measures to improve public transportation services, such as service frequency, route optimization, and passenger experience.

• Internal Combustion Engine Advancement: Development of eco-friendly, carbon-neutral internal combustion engines (e.g., hydrogen engines, hybrid engines) for areas and countries where electric vehicle infrastructure is challenging to establish.

(2) Aerial Mobility

Known as Urban Air Mobility (UAM), it's an intra-city or inter-city transportation method using vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft such as drones and electric air taxis, providing fast and efficient transportation options to alleviate urban congestion, reduce emissions, and expand accessibility.

• Flight Control Systems: Developing advanced flight control systems that safely operate and navigate aircraft in complex urban environments.

• eVTOL (Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing) Aircraft: Development of electric aircraft capable of vertical take-off and landing, reducing the need for conventional runways and improving air mobility in urban areas.

• Noise Reduction: Aircraft design to reduce noise for accepting aerial mobility systems within cities.

• Safety and Certification: Developing and researching test methods for small aircraft systems and certification procedures with regulatory authorities.

• Aircraft Operation and Management: Researching air route settings, flight schedule management, and aircraft maintenance methods for safe navigation of multiple aircraft within a city.

(3) Smart City

A city concept that uses technology and data to improve residents' quality of life and urban sustainability, creating more efficient and effective services. Mobility research is essential.

• Urban Planning and Design: Integrating mobility considerations into urban planning and design, including land use, zoning, and traffic planning.

• Metadata Analysis: Methods for data collection and analysis to improve mobility in smart cities, including traffic management, route optimization, and demand prediction.

• Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS): Research on building an integrated transport system that can efficiently control various autonomous mobility through real-time communication and information exchange within the city.

• Charging Infrastructure: Research on development and placement strategies for charging infrastructure for fast and efficient charging of various electric-driven mobility.

• Active Transportation: Methods to encourage active transportation like walking and cycling as means to improve health, reduce congestion, and lower emissions.

(4) Mobility as a Service (MaaS)

A comprehensive end-to-end mobility solution that integrates various transportation modes such as public transport, bike-sharing, ride-hailing, and car-sharing into one convenient and user-friendly platform, meeting the transportation needs of customers regardless of the means of transport.

• Transport Integration: Development of a more flexible, efficient, and sustainable mobility system by improving integration of various transport modes.

• Economic and Environmental Impact: Evaluation of societal impacts, including cost savings, emission reduction, and energy efficiency.

• Personal Information Security: Research on security solutions to protect user data privacy and prevent misuse of personal information within the MaaS system.

• Service Design and User Experience: Designing systems that need to meet the diverse needs of various user groups, including issues such as accessibility, comfort, and convenience.

(5) Other Advanced Mobility-Related Technologies

• Hydrogen Energy-based Technologies: Methods for producing green hydrogen fuel, high-density storage and transportation technology, and infrastructure construction for environmentally friendly mobility (fuel cells, hydrogen engines) as carbon-neutral fuel.

• Eco-friendly Generation Technologies: Methods and environmental impact for upgrading currently supplementary eco-friendly generation technologies (e.g., wind power, solar power) into sustainable and high-efficiency technology, and for storing and efficiently distributing unevenly produced electricity according to energy demand.