A journey to the future - Urban (R)evolution with Electric Bus Intelligence

The rapid rise of electric buses in urban landscapes has opened a world of possibilities, revolutionizing how transportation systems operate and connect with power grids. Imagine electric buses as more than just vehicles – they're mobile energy hubs with immense battery capacity, ready to offer services to the grid. However, it's unrealistic to expect public transportation operators to simultaneously oversee bus-system management and engage in the intricacies of the electricity market. Within this dynamic landscape, this seminar presents novel optimization frameworks designed to resolve these challenges and seamlessly integrate electric buses into the grid. Moreover, it introduces the innovative concept of electric bus aggregators, poised to take center stage in orchestrating energy management, elevating revenue streams, and propelling electric bus fleets toward a more efficient horizon. In summation, this seminar aims to discuss innovative solutions for a cleaner, economically viable urban future through the fusion of electric buses and the electrical grid, using intelligent systems and optimization methods.

Wednesday, November 22nd

11:00 AMÌýMechEng

MD 267 (Seminar Room)

2nd floor, MacDonald Engineering Building

This workshop is supported by Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et TechnologiesÌýand the Government of Canada’s Environmental Damages Fund under its Climate Action and Awareness Fund.

Advances in Intelligent Traffic Management - From Reinforcement Learning to Digital Twins

Friday, October 13th

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

MechEng MD 267 (Seminar Room)

2nd floor, MacDonald Engineering Building

This workshop is supported by CIRRELT, SIL and the Government of Canada’s Environmental Damages Fund under its Climate Action and Awareness Fund.

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Jacques Ferrier - From infrastructure to sensual city

Ferrier Marchetti Studio

The pleasure that the daily experience of cities can give has to be reconquered as an essential and vital asset of our urban lives. The need to reconsider urban infrastructure in a sustainable approach is an opportunity to place humans at the center of all new projects.

The functional city, through its desire for absolute control of atmosphere and ambiance, has placed itself in a situation where it is repeating and reproducing the same urban situations worldwide, side-lining any possibility of improvisation: the city without qualities is everywhere, and residents' ability to appropriate the city is nowhere to be seen.

Today, we need to invent a new contract between nature and technology: a contract where the experience of urban dwellers constitutes the core value, with the aim of once again discovering the sensual experience of the city – essential for the fulfillment of all human lives.

The design of cities not only has to achieve goals in terms of sustainable efficiency, but it must be informed by a new and richer relationship with citizens. The architect's role is not merely to accompany reality; instead, as in all the arts, it is to give reality a new appearance and to open unexpected ways of appropriation so that people learn to look at -and use - it in a new way.

Ferrier Marchetti Studio doesn't think of architecture as just designing objects but imagining and putting in place the multiple relationships these objects are likely to create.