Bridging the Gap: A Unified Platform for Sustainable Urban Transport

Sustainable mobility plays a fundamental role in reducing environmental pollution and saving energy; approximately 25% of climate-altering emissions are produced by the transport sector. To this end, the use of public transport and sharing of electric vehicles are the key to achieving this goal. The main difficulty encountered to date in urban environments, which is limiting their development, is represented by the lack of continuity and fluidity of the different transport services, due to the lack of interaction among different typologies and the lack of flexibility in adapting to the changing needs of the community. Our project aims to develop a management platform for light electric vehicles capable of interacting with other types of transport, creating an intermodality that allows the end user an integrated use of the various means for the daily journey without interruptions or obstacles of any kind. This platform, enhanced by the help of Artificial Intelligence, will also be able to predict the needs of use of the service in the near future and consequently suggest to users the most suitable pick-up/drop-off locations. The whole thing is completed by the creation of the missing urban infrastructures to achieve full energy sustainability of the service, such as photovoltaic shelters for wireless charging of electric vehicles. The proposed design idea is a truly breakthrough solution that requires a paradigm shift compared to the current situation, which requires a significant effort by electric vehicle fleet managers for battery swapping and repositioning vehicles within the most used areas. With our project, thanks to wireless charging, integration with other mobility services and predictions on future uses, we aim to leave the management of the light electric vehicle sharing service in the hands of the community without the need for any external intervention by operators.