This presentation was made at the NAFEMS Americas Conference "Simulation in the Automotive Industry: Creating the Next Generation Vehicle" held on the 16-18 March 2021.

The automotive engineering community is now confronting the largest technology transformation since its inception. The demand to manufacture cleaner, safer, and smarter vehicles, along with providing an overall enhanced driving and ride experience, has never been higher. As a result, engineering teams must discover, evaluate, and successfully implement leading-edge technology and methods to produce reliable, effective results.

Hence, the challenges for automotive engineers are enormous and require a significant increase in the upfront use of numerical simulation capabilities, methods, and processes such that they’re able to efficiently design, manufacture and deliver these innovative technologies to market in greater speeds than ever before.

Resource Abstract

It is widely known that mobility will undergo drastic changes in the next decade as a result of major societal trends such as urbanization, which imposes major challenges to current transportation networks (congestion, pollution, noise, etc.) and emerging technologies such as autonomous, electrified, connected vehicles and artificial intelligence. There is no doubt that future communities will rely on “digital twin” modeling and optimization to provide new value to the residents. In this presentation, we propose a simulation-based strategy to explore the benefits of coordination between existing and emerging travel modes in regional transportation networks.