Dynamically Configurable Vehicle Concepts for Autonomous Driving
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Dynamically Configurable Vehicle Concepts for Autonomous Driving
Dynamically configurable vehicles promise to reduce inner-city passenger and cargo traffic in the future by means of a highly utilized autonomously driving platform and application-specific, interchangeable add-on modules. The Automotive Research Center Niedersachsen presents the opportunities and challenges in the development of tire individuel electrically driven and autonomous vehicles.
SCENARIOS OF FUTURE MOBILIT Y APPLICATIONS
At the Automotive Research Center Niedersachsen (NFF), research is carried out on the vehicle and traffic technology of the future under the heading Sustainable
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Mobility. A network of research institutions and industrial partners is working on a wide variety of problems with the aim of ensuring future individual mobility needs in metropolitan areas. In order to develop future mobility carriers, it is necessary to have a precise
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idea of possible use cases and the environment or mobility system in which they operate. Based on the current situation, the Institute of Engineering Design develops future scenarios which are based on Social, Technological, Economic, Ecological and Political (Steep) factors. In these fictional scenarios, use cases are implemented which are primarily defined by user needs. Based on social development or megatrends such as urbanization, a growing awareness of environmental and climate protection or the development toward a sharing economy, mobility trends emerge: There is no doubt that the vehicles of the future will be electrically powered and drive autonomously. A high degree of connectivity between the vehicles themselves, but also with their envi-
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Dipl.-Ing. Christian Raulf is Research Assistant at the Institute for Engineering Design (IK) at Technische Universität Braunschweig (Germany).
Chris Pethe, M. Sc. is Research Assistant at the Institute for Vehicle Technology (IfF) at Technische Universität Braunschweig (Germany).
ronment by car-to-car or car-to-x communication will enable more efficient traffic management and provide the basis for innovative business models in the fields of car/ride sharing or ridehailing [1, 2]. Instead of the one possible future, there are many projections, which react sensitively to even the smallest changes in influencing parameters. Accordingly, the Acatech study Neue Automobilität II (New Automobility II) does not describe various scenarios, but defines a target image for the use of autonomously driving highly networked vehicles. Space utilization in urban metropolises and parking space management are propagated as currently insufficient or unproductive. First solution concepts for passenger transport offer traffic reduction through sharing fleets, valet parking in local car parks or even intelligent parking space management for entire districts. There are also initial solutions for reducing inner-city cargo traffic through different parcel delivery services [3]. Bundled deliveries and intelligent solut
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