SUMMER INTERNSHIP REPORT

ON

DRIVING FORWARD: THE SYNERGY OF ELECTRIC AND AUTONOMOUS

VEHICLES IN FUTURE

BY

MRS. SHWETA VILASRAO CHAVAN

ROLL NO. : AMS2224009

SUMBITTED TO

Shree Ghatkopar Sarvajanik Jivdaya Khatu’s

ARUNA MANHARLAL SHAH

INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT & RESEARCH,

MUMBAI

IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF

MASTER OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES (MMS),

UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI
 DECLARATION

I, Mrs. Shweta Vilasrao Chavan, hereby declare that this project report is the record of
authentic work carried out by me during the period from May 2023 to June 2023 and has not
been submitted to any other University or Institute for the award of any degree/ diploma.

Date Signature

Shweta Vilasrao Chavan

 CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that Mrs. Shweta Vilasrao Chavan of Aruna Manharlal Shah Institute of
Management & Research has successfully completed the project work titled ‘DRIVING
FACTOR : The Synergy of Electric and Autonomous Vehicles in Future’ in partial fulfilment
of requirement for the completion MMS as prescribed by the University of Mumbai.

This project report is the record of authentic work carried out by him during the period from
May 2023 to June 2023.

She has worked under my guidance.

Date Project Guide

Dr. Iram Shaikh

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

If words are considered to be signs of gratitude then let these words Convey the very same
My sincere gratitude to Aditya Birla Capital for providing me with an opportunity to work
with FINACIAL SERVICES FIRM and giving necessary directions on doing this project to
the best of my abilities. I take this opportunity to acknowledge the efforts of all those
individuals.

First and foremost, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to director and my mentor
of AMSIMR institute Dr. Iram Tanvir Shaikh. Also the faculty members and my friend for
adding value to my knowledge by providing with valuable insights into the completion of this
project and sharpening me for the corporate world.

My heartfelt thanks to my Industry guide and mentor,Mr. Subhajit Sengupta, Aditya Birla
Capital. This project is a result of his teaching, guidance, support and encouragement during
my entire project. Without his vision and support this project would not have been so
beneficial to me as well as to the prestigious organization in which I had worked.
Topic Page No.

1.History of transportation 3

2. mode of transportation 4-6

3. Preface 7

4. Acknowledge 8

5. Executive summary 9

6, Objective of study 10-11

PARTICULARS DESCRIPTION PAGE NO.

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 The History of Transportation

CHAPTER 2 CURRENT LANDSCAPE

2.1 ELECTRIC VEHICLES

2.2 AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

CHAPTER 3 INTEGRATION OF EVs AND AVs

3.1 SYNERGIES BETWEEN EVs AND AVs

3.2 CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS

CHAPTER 4 Future Trends

4.1. Market Projections

4.2. Technological Advancements

CHAPTER 5 Societal Impacts

5.1 Environmental Benefits

5.2 Urban Mobility

CHAPTER 6 Challenges and Opportunities

6.1 Regulatory Frameworks

6.2 Infrastructure Development

CHAPTER 7 RIVIEW OF LITERATUTRE

CHAPTER 8 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

8.1 RESEARCH DESIGN

8.2 SOURCES OF DATA COLLECTION

 8.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

CHAPTER 9 DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION

CHAPTER 10 FINDING AND CONCLUSION

CHAPTER 11 SUGGESTION AND RECOMMENDATION

CHAPTER 12 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

CHAPTER 13 BIBLIOGRAPHY

CHAPTER 14 ANNEXURE

INTRODUCTION

 TRANSPORTATION :
Transportation is the movement of people and goods from one place to another. The
term is derived from the Latin trans ("across") and portae ("to carry"). Industries
which have the business of providing equipment, actual transport, or goods and
services used in transport of goods or people make up a large broad and important
sector of most national economies, and are collectively referred to as transport
industries.
Transport or transportation is the intentional movement of humans, animals,
and goods from one location to another.
Modes of transport include air, land (rail and road), water, cable, pipelines, and space. The
field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations. Transport enables
human trade, which is essential for the development of civilizations.
Transport infrastructure consists of both fixed installations,
including roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals, and pipelines, and terminals such
as airports, railway stations, bus stations, warehouses, trucking terminals, refuelling depots
(including fuel docks and fuel stations), and seaports. Terminals may be used both for the
interchange of passengers and cargo and for maintenance.
Means of transport are any of the different kinds of transport facilities used to carry people or
cargo. They may include vehicles, riding animals, and pack animals. Vehicles may include
wagons, automobiles, bicycles, buses, trains, trucks, helicopters, watercraft, spacecraft,
and aircraft.

1.1. The History of Transportation:

3500BC Fixed wheels on carts are invented - the first wheeled vehicles in history. Other
early wheeled vehicles include the chariot

3500BC River boats are invented - ships with oars

2000BC Horses are domesticated and used for transportation

181-234 The wheelbarrow is invented.

770 Iron horseshoes improve transportation by horse

1492 Leonardo da Vinci first to seriously theorize about flying machines - with over
100 drawings that illustrated his theories on fligh

1620 Cornelis Drebbel invented the first submarine - an human oared submersible
1662 Blaise Pascal invents the first public bus - horse-drawn, regular route, schedule,
and fare system

1740 Jacques de Vaucanson demonstrates his clockwork powered carriage

1738 First practical steamboat demonstrated by Marquis Claude Francois de Jouffroy

d'Abbans - a paddle wheel steamboat

1769 First self-propelled road vehicle invented by Nicolas Joseph Cugnot

1783 The Montgolfier brothers invent the first hot air balloons

1787 Steamboat invented

1790 Modern bicycles invented

1801 Richard Trevithick invented the first steam powered locomotive (designed for
roads)

1807 Isaac de Rivas makes a hydrogen gas powered vehicle - first with internal
combustion power - however, very unsuccessful design

1807 First steamboat with regular passenger service - inventor Robert Fulton's
Clermont.

1814 George Stephenson invents the first practical steam powered railroad locomotiv

1862 Jean Lenoir makes a gasoline engine automobile

1867 First motorcycle invented

1868 George Westinghouse invents the compressed air locomotive brake - enabled
 trains to be stopped with fail-safe accuracy

1871 First cable car invented

1885 Karl Benz builds the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an
internal combustion engine

1899 Ferdinand von Zeppelin invents the first successful dirigible - the Zeppelin

1903 The Wright Brothers invent and fly the first engined airplane.

1907 Very first helicopter - unsuccessful design

1908 Henry Ford improves the assembly line for automobile manufacturing

1908 Hydrofoil boats co-invented by Alexander Graham Bell & Casey Baldwin -
boats that skimmed water

1926 First liquid propelled rocket launched

1940 Modern helicopters invented

1947 First supersonic jet flight

1956 Hovercraft invented

1964 Bullet train transportation invented

1969 First manned mission (Apollo) to the Moon

1970 First jumbo jet

1981 Space shuttle launched

1.2 MODE OF TRANSPORT:

A mode of transport is a solution that makes use of a certain type of vehicle, infrastructure,
and operation. The transport of a person or of cargo may involve one mode or several of the
modes, with the latter case being called inter-modal or multi-modal transport. Each mode has
its own advantages and disadvantages, and will be chosen on the basis of cost, capability, and
route.
Governments deal with the way the vehicles are operated, and the procedures set for this
purpose, including financing, legalities, and policies. In the transport industry, operations and
ownership of infrastructure can be either public or private, depending on the country and
mode.
Passenger transport may be public, where operators provide scheduled services, or private.
Freight transport has become focused on containerization, although bulk transport is used for
large volumes of durable items. Transport plays an important part in economic growth
and globalization, but most types cause air pollution and use large amounts of land. While it
is heavily subsidized by governments, good planning of transport is essential to make traffic
flow and restrain urban sprawl.
1. Human-powered
Human-powered transport remains common in developing countries.
Human-powered transport, a form of sustainable transport, is the transport of people or goods
using human muscle-power, in the form of walking, running, and swimming.
Modern technology has allowed machines to enhance human power. Human-powered
transport remains popular for reasons of cost-saving, leisure, physical exercise, and
environmentalism; it is sometimes the only type available, especially in underdeveloped or
inaccessible regions.

Although humans are able to walk without infrastructure, the transport can be enhanced
through the use of roads, especially when using the human power with vehicles, such
as bicycles and inline skates. Human-powered vehicles have also been developed for difficult
environments, such as snow and water, by watercraft rowing and skiing; even the air can be
entered with human-powered aircraft.
2. Animal-powered
Animal-powered transport is the use of working animals for the movement of people
and commodities. Humans may ride some of the animals directly, use them as pack
animals for carrying goods, or harness them, alone or in teams, to pull sleds or
wheeled vehicles.
3. Air
An Air France Airbus A318 landing at London Heathrow Airport

A fixed-wing aircraft, commonly called an airplane, is a heavier-than-air craft where

movement of the air in relation to the wings is used to generate lift. The term is used to
distinguish this from rotary-wing aircraft, where the movement of the lift surfaces relative to
the air generates lift. A gyroplane is both fixed-wing and rotary wing. Fixed-wing aircraft
range from small trainers and recreational aircraft to large airliners and military cargo
aircraft.
Two things necessary for aircraft are air flow over the wings for lift and an area for landing.
The majority of aircraft also need an airport with the infrastructure for maintenance,
restocking, and refueling and for the loading and unloading of crew, cargo, and
passengers. While the vast majority of aircraft land and take off on land, some are capable of
take-off and landing on ice, snow, and calm water.
The aircraft is the second fastest method of transport, after the rocket. Commercial jets can
reach up to 955 kilometres per hour (593 mph), single-engine aircraft 555 kilometres per hour
(345 mph). Aviation is able to quickly transport people and limited amounts of cargo over
longer distances, but incurs high costs and energy use; for short distances or in inaccessible
places, helicopters can be used. As of April 28, 2009, The Guardian article notes that "the
WHO estimates that up to 500,000 people are on planes at any time."
4. Land
Land transport covers all land-based transport systems that provide for the movement
of people, goods, and services. Land transport plays a vital role in linking
communities to each other. Land transport is a key factor in urban planning. It
consists of two kinds, rail and road.
5. Rail
Intercity Express, a German high-speed passenger trainThe Beijing Subway is one of the
world's largest and busiest rapid transit networks.

Rail transport is where a train runs along a set of two parallel steel rails, known as a railway
or railroad. The rails are anchored perpendicular to ties (or sleepers) of timber, concrete, or
steel, to maintain a consistent distance apart, or gauge. The rails and perpendicular beams are
placed on a foundation made of concrete or compressed earth and gravel in a bed of ballast.
Alternative methods include monorail and maglev.
A train consists of one or more connected vehicles that operate on the rails. Propulsion is
commonly provided by a locomotive, that hauls a series of unpowered cars, that can carry
passengers or freight. The locomotive can be powered by steam, by diesel, or
by electricity supplied by trackside systems. Alternatively, some or all the cars can be
powered, known as a multiple unit. Also, a train can be powered by horses, cables, gravity,
pneumatics, and gas turbines. Railed vehicles move with much less friction than rubber tires
on paved roads, making trains more energy efficient, though not as efficient as ships.
Intercity trains are long-haul services connecting cities; modern high-speed rail is capable of
speeds up to 350 km/h (220 mph), but this requires specially built track. Regional and
commuter trains feed cities from suburbs and surrounding areas, while intra-urban transport
is performed by high-capacity tramways and rapid transits, often making up the backbone of
a city's public transport. Freight trains traditionally used box cars, requiring manual loading
and unloading of the cargo. Since the 1960s, container trains have become the dominant
solution for general freight, while large quantities of bulk are transported by dedicated trains.
6. Road
A road is an identifiable route, way, or path between two or more places. Roads are typically
smoothed, paved, or otherwise prepared to allow easy travel; though they need not be, and
historically many roads were simply recognizable routes without any formal construction
or maintenance. In urban areas, roads may pass through a city or village and be named
as streets, serving a dual function as urban space easement and route.
The most common road vehicle is the automobile; a wheeled passenger vehicle that carries its
own motor. Other users of roads include buses, trucks, motorcycles, bicycles,
and pedestrians. As of 2010, there were 1.015 billion automobiles worldwide. Road transport
offers complete freedom to road users to transfer the vehicle from one lane to the other and
from one road to another according to the need and convenience. This flexibility of changes
in location, direction, speed, and timings of travel is not available to other modes of transport.
It is possible to provide door-to-door service only by road transport.
Automobiles provide high flexibility with low capacity, but require high energy and area use,
and are the main source of harmful noise and air pollution in cities; buses allow for more
efficient travel at the cost of reduced flexibility. Road transport by truck is often the initial
and final stage of freight transport.
7. Water
Water transport is movement by means of a watercraft—such as a barge, boat, ship,
or sailboat—over a body of water, such as a sea, ocean, lake, canal, or river. The need for
buoyancy is common to watercraft, making the hull a dominant aspect of its construction,
maintenance, and appearance.
In the 19th century, the first steam ships were developed, using a steam engine to drive
a paddle wheel or propeller to move the ship. The steam was produced in a boiler using wood
or coal and fed through a steam external combustion engine. Now most ships have an internal
combustion engine using a slightly refined type of petroleum called bunker fuel. Some ships,
such as submarines, use nuclear power to produce the steam. Recreational or educational
craft still use wind power, while some smaller craft use internal combustion engines to drive
one or more propellers or, in the case of jet boats, an inboard water jet. In shallow draft
areas, hovercraft are propelled by large pusher-prop fans. (See Marine propulsion.)
Although it is slow compared to other transport, modern sea transport is a highly efficient
method of transporting large quantities of goods. Commercial vessels, nearly 35,000 in
number, carried 7.4 billion tons of cargo in 2007. Transport by water is significantly less
costly than air transport for transcontinental shipping; short sea shipping and ferries remain
viable in coastal areas.
8. Other modes
Trans-Alaska Pipeline for crude oil Pipeline transport sends goods through a pipe; most
commonly liquid and gases are sent, but pneumatic tubes can also send solid capsules using
compressed air. For liquids/gases, any chemically stable liquid or gas can be sent through a
pipeline. Short-distance systems exist for sewage, slurry, water, and beer, while long-distance
networks are used for petroleum and natural gas.