FACE THE CHANGE Go Electric San Francisco 2017 – 2030+ Economy: The region’s economy is booming and will continue to grow. The number of jobs is forecast to increase from 600,740 (2013) to just short of 707,000 in 2030. At the same time, social imbalances could be exacerbated. San Francisco already has the highest poverty rate in the region. Mobility: Housing space is becoming ever more scarce and rents are getting ever more expensive, particularly in the city. As a result, more and more people will have to move to outlying areas and commute downtown. San Francisco wants to make its streets safer: traffic fatalities are to be totally eliminated by 2024 (Vision Zero). Innovation: With Silicon Valley nearby, people in San Francisco are very open to future technologies. The city will continue to rank among the leading innovation economies in the future. The city’s trailblazing role will be strengthened by planned infrastructure investments of some $10.1 billion by 2030. Environment: There is a keen interest in sustainability and the city has set itself ambitious targets: the goal is to have 100 percent renewable electricity supply community wide by 2030. Moreover, there is to be zero waste by 2020. Today, the recycling rate is already 80 percent. On the streets of the future 1 Adaptive vehicles The car as a place to live and work – on the move. In the future, cars can be individually configured and adapted to suit specific needs. As an open-air office, for instance: the car becomes both a workplace and a means of transport. It is fully connected and equipped with sensors, among other things. That means it can even turn itself into a camera or a scanner, for example to make 3-D recordings for virtual reality videos. 2 Smart bicycles Equipped with navigation system, GPS, and sensors, bicycles become another part of the digital infrastructure. So the interaction between the different forms of transport – cars, autonomous shuttles and bicycles – is stress-free. Eliminating parking space means greater freedom for cyclists, too. Moreover, the extra bicycle lanes ensure greater safety. 3 Wireless charging stations E-mobility will become standard. 2 Charging stations throughout the city will make it easy to fuel up – minus the tangled mess of cables. In the future, there will be special loading plates for wireless charging at parking spaces, for example. An EV parked on one of these spaces is automatically charged. 19
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