Project
NEW NORMAL - Sustainable mobility and logistics for post-pandemic second-tier cities
One of the granted Sino-European sustainable logistics and individual mobility (JPI & NSFC) proposals, together with Prof. Ge Ying-En, Chang’an University, China.
Our project (NEW NORMAL) aims at developing and testing an (1) emission-free, (2) energy-independent and (3) space-efficient system for 169 post-pandemic,second-tier cities in the EU and China, based on (a) EV sharing and (b) drone-based logistics, using the potentials of edge technologies on (i) on-surface solar panels, (ii) wireless EV charging, and (iii) hydrogen generation and (iv) storage.Our Trans-disciplinary consortium includes four universities, two municipalities, and two tech companies:
Coordination team:
European project coordinator: Dr.ir. Bardia Mashhoodi
Chinese project coordinator:Professor dr. Ying-en Ge
Consortium:
Chang’an University, College of Transportation Engineering (Professor dr. Ying-en Ge);
Beijing Jiaotong University, School of Traffic and Transportation, China (Professor dr. Huijun Sun);
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Division of Electric Power and Energy Systems, Sweden (dr. Qianwen Xu);
Wageningen University, Department of Environmental Sciences, the Netherlands (dr. Wendy Guan Zhen Tan, dr. Ori Rubin);
Nijmegen Municipality, the Netherlands (Jasper Meekes);
Xi‘an Transportation Development Research Center, China (dr. Duhou Li);
Energiforsk, Sweden (Eng. Lennart Kjellman);
Geo-Col, the Netherlands (dr. Gustavo Arciniegas (PhD))