After announcing it in 2020, the first residents and partner companies of Toyota Woven City are starting to move in. This marks the first step of it transforming into a real-world test course for mobility and a key driver of Toyota’s transformation from a traditional carmaker into a mobility company.
Located at the base of Mt. Fuji and at the former site of Toyota Motor East Japan’s Higashi-Fuji Plant in Susono City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Toyota Woven City spans 708,200 square meters. The first phase, completed in October of last year, includes space for around 360 residents (47,000 square meters), growing to a full population of 2,000 people once everything is completed.
Some examples as to how Toyota Woven City will be used include road systems that take into consideration pedestrians, personal mobility devices, and vehicles; a city-wide coordinated traffic signal system; multi-function poles that serve both as streetlights and as a housing for sensors and cameras; and an underground road network.
Several companies have also joined Toyota in Woven City as co-creators including Daikin Industries, DyDo Drinco, Nissin Food Products, UCC Japan, Interstellar Technologies, and Kyoritsu Seiyaku Corporation.
The city is fully sustainable, with buildings made mostly of wood to minimize the carbon footprint, using traditional Japanese wood joinery, combined with robotic production methods. The rooftops are covered in photo-voltaic panels to generate solar power in addition to power generated by hydrogen fuel cells. Toyota plans to weave in the outdoors throughout the city, with native vegetation and hydroponics.
Toyota Woven City will also use “Digital Twin technology,” to explore and design the future of logistics services. A Digital Twin digitally reproduces the real world based on collected data and allows for digital simulations to be reflected in the real world to obtain feedback, which is in turn fed back into the digital world to improve accuracy.
Central to Toyota Woven City are two profiles of participants. The first are known as Inventors. These are enterprises, startups, entrepreneurs, research institutions, and other innovators developing and testing products and services in Woven City. The second profile consists of residents and visitors, known as Weavers. By experiencing the products and services first hand and providing feedback, Weavers will play a vital role in shaping new, meaningful innovations.
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