Smart mobility

Smart Mobility

SMART – Future Urban Mobility

This paper presents an overview of the Future Urban Mobility programme of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). Through this programme, MIT is establishing a research centre in Singapore with the mission to support sustainability and improve transportation system performance through innovations in infrastructure, technology, operations and policy. Two key areas of rese...

Smart Battery Charger for Electric Mobility in Smart Grids

In this paper is presented the development of a smart batteries charger for Electric Vehicles (EVs) and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs), aiming their integration in Smart Grids. The batteries charging process is controlled by an appropriate control algorithm, aiming to preserve the batteries lifespan. The main features of the equipment are the mitigation of the power quality degradatio...

Fostering Smart Mobility for Middle Sized Cities

Urban Mobility systems play an increasingly important role in the way people move around their communities and how communities develop. Despite the significant benefits to using public transportation, many potential riders are reluctant to utilize public transportation. In this current situation, cities and communities are increasing efforts to provide multiple solutions for urban mobility and ...

Towards Mobility Support in Smart Environments

Smart environments are subject to intensive academic and industrial research. Many of these research projects deal with challenges such as heterogeneity, personalization and context-awareness. However, most of them assume smart environments to be insular places. Considering users visiting different environments in daily life, this assumption becomes unrealistic. Mobile users wish to use persona...