ICT-systems for electric vehicles within simulated and community based environments

Abstract

The current living standard of industrial nations causes increasing CO2 emissions, particulate matter, and noise pollution. An essential amount of these environmental issues is induced by stop-and-go traffic within cities which is seriously characterized by short-distance freight transport trips with inner-city and suburban distances. The project Smart City Logistik (SCL) strives for a practical and short-term solution to this problem by ICT-Systems for electric vehicles (EVs). But planning, monitoring and analyzing for urban area logistics can become complicated and challenging to use. Evaluating them within acceptance tests requires a lot of experiments as well as a lot of equipment. The following approach within the SCL project, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), tries to use the ICT-system as it is and connects that system through a dynamically and procedurally generated simulation environment, based on real terrain and community data.