| Abstract | In order to realize a sustainable mobility society, technology development is ongoing to handle energy security, CO2 reduction, traffic-congestion and road-accident related challenges. The vehicle itself and the surrounding social infrastructure system, has to deal with 3 challenges.
The first challenge will be to develop and raise the efficiency of a powertrain supporting renewable energy like bio-fuels, electricity, and hydrogen.
The second will be the challenge to enhance vehicle dynamic performance and to innovate environmental and safety features of the vehicle by autonomous driving and its supporting technologies.
The third challenge is ITS development applying ITC (Information and Communication Technology), namely, the development of a “connected” vehicle and its related social infrastructure.
These developments, which began by utilizing simulation technology such as HILS and SILS, have evolved for the systems which include both human and society. In the development of the social infrastructure system, much progress has been made in the development process itself, such as application of real-time probe-data, and large-scale simulation using Big Data.
In this keynote lecture, we will introduce approaches to resolving key challenges, and show the future technological trend together with a proposal to innovate development based on large-scale simulation. |