Hyundai bares ‘smart city’ model at 2022 World Cities Summit

At the ongoing 2022 World Cities Summit in Singapore, Hyundai Motor Group presented the HMG Smart City master model — the South Korean carmaker’s take on building a smart and sustainable city.

Per the automotive brand, the model represents the Hyundai Motor Group’s vision for smart cities and illustrates how such a setup will empower its citizens with sustainable and smart mobility solutions.

The model, the conglomerate adds, will serve as a guideline for developing smart mobility solutions that support smart cities around the world while revitalizing their urban communities.

“The HMG Smart City master model is our vision for a human-centered city that will revitalize urban communities. In the future smart cities, our ambition is for humankind to live with nature while embracing technology. Our air and ground mobility solutions will redefine urban boundaries, connect people in meaningful ways, and revitalize cities. We will continue to work with governments around the globe to bring our smart city vision to reality, while rapidly advancing capabilities in future mobility solutions,” said Hyundai Motor Group President and Chief Innovation Officer Youngcho Chi.

The HMG Smart City concept was inspired by a honeycomb pattern and is envisioned as a hexagonal-shaped city with a human-centered surface layer, and a function-centered underground layer.

The former will feature buildings that encircle nature, in the form of parks and forests, which sit at the center of the city. Hyundai Motor Group explains that the buildings in the upper layer are divided into three sections by population density — high, medium, and low.

The latter, on the other hand, houses underground road infrastructures, which connect the city’s various sections. The lower layer will also serve as a transport route for various goods and services via autonomous mobility to each region’s automated logistics hub, where autonomous robots will make the final delivery.

Citizens, based on the model, will travel between cities by the advanced air mobility (AAM).

The HMG Smart City concept also envisions a sustainable green city where large natural areas are preserved. The city center will feature recreational forests, parks, and a reservoir to provide water for the city. To ensure carbon neutrality, the city’s primary power source will be hydrogen, distributed through the smart grid pipelines to power buildings through hydrogen fuel cell generators.

The Hyundai Motor Group is also working closely with governments around the world to make cities smarter. The consortium signed an MOU with Singapore’s government agency JTC on a transport modeling project that aims to enhance logistics efficiency using autonomous driving, EV, AI, and big data.

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