SMART Mobility. Urban Science Capstone Report

Technical Report · Thu Jul 23 04:00:00 EDT 2020

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1656703· OSTI ID:1656703

Sperling, Joshua ^[1]; Duvall, Andrew ^[1]; Beck, John ^[2]; Henao, Alejandro ^[1]; Garikapti, Venu ^[1]; Hou, Yi ^[1]; Romero-Lankao, Patty ^[1]; Wenzel, Tom ^[3]; Waddell, Paul ^[3]; Aziz, Husain ^[4]; Wang, Hon ^[4]; Young, Stanley ^[1]

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1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
2. Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
3. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
4. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Systems and Modeling for Accelerated Research in Transportation (SMART) Mobility Consortium is a multiyear, multi-laboratory collaborative, managed by the Energy Efficient Mobility Systems Program of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Vehicle Technologies Office, dedicated to further understanding the energy implications and opportunities of advanced mobility technologies and services. The Urban Science (US) Pillar focuses on maximum-mobility and minimum-energy opportunities associated with emerging transportation and transportation-related technologies specifically within the urban context. Such technologies, often referred to as automated, connected, efficient (or electrified), and shared (ACES), have the potential to greatly improve mobility and related quality of life in urban areas. Although all the SMART Mobility research pillars share some commonalities, Urban Science strives to model, analyze, and gain insights from the perspective of human settlements (the “city”) as a living organism. This is especially critical as the United States is one of the most urbanized countries, and as more and more of the global population migrates to urban areas.1 The urban mobility system consists of a complex network that reaches well beyond roads and vehicles and includes significant investments in public transit, private mobility services (such as taxis and transportation network companies, or TNCs), significant parking reserves, and curb management practices, not to mention the abundance of emerging on-demand micromobility services for the movement of people and goods such as e-bikes and scooters, which make the urban space a dynamic laboratory for mobility. Urban spaces also concentrate employment, markets, services, and attractions, which are the destinations for most trips. The concentration of human activities and ensuing density also creates the need and emphasis for space efficiency in urban environments, which is often less of a constraint in suburban or rural contexts. This mixture of transportation and mobility infrastructure and practice, combined with global urbanization trends, make urban spaces a critical focus of research for developing energy-efficient mobility systems (EEMS).

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States); National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Vehicle Technologies Office (EE-3V) (Vehicle Technologies Office Corporate)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231; AC02-06CH11357; AC07-05ID14517; AC36-08GO28308; AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1656703
• Report Number(s): DOE/EE--2065; 8264
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
Energy Efficient Mobility Systems
Systems and Modeling for Accelerated Research in Transportation (SMART) Mobility Consortium
Urban Science Capstone Report
Vehicle Technologies Office