Every aspects of life is changing rapidly with advancement in technology, transfiguring the whole environment into more efficient and intelligent one. Now it's time for our Highways. In future we civil engineers are going to use solar materials for highway construction that will be monitored and managed using real time monitoring artificially intelligent systems(Structural Health Monitoring Systems) which will be capable of communicating with everything on the track. The network of communication will be set up among cars and highway components with GPS systems. It is anticipated that rapid urbanisation, climate change, changes in human behaviour and resource depletion would be major consequences of such giant step towards AI implementation in highway sector.
The main aim is to generate clean and renewable power using solar panels on road surfaces. Vehicles will be able to receive energy wirelessly, either in rest or motion. For cold regions the panels will be equipped with LED lighting and heating arrangements to melt snow. The recent development in material science is quite promising that we will be able to manufacture batteries with huge electric storage and improved performance.
The vehicles will become a thing to be used by even old or disabled persons with the help of computer. As vehicle will be self aware of it's surrounding and will have more control over it's speed, acceleration and braking mechanism, it will better react to any emergency situations coming forth suddenly. This will further increase in the number of vehicle on highways and resulting into increased traffic problems, yet with fully automated navigation systems we will be able to control easily, however complex is traffic pattern and distribution.
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