A review on future highway (the new era of smart roadways)

The today’s world is heading towards better environmental conditions through reduction of degrading factors of it. One of such initiative for cleaner environment is more acceptances of renewable resources rather than the traditional ways of using exhaustible resources. The Solar Roadway is a great innovation leading towards clean energy and cleaner environment. Solar energy has been the subject of great development in the past years, which led to the concept of Solar Roads. The Solar Roadway is a series of solar panels which is used to drive upon. The purpose of presenting this paper is to take a survey of solar roads which uses the solar panels to absorb the solar energy for working of solar road. This new technology road consists of solar panels, photovoltaic effect, LEDs and microprocessor chips. Basically, the idea of using solar road is to replace all current petroleum based road, parking lots, etc with latest technological road i.e. Solar Roadway made of solar panels. These solar panels collect energy from sun which can be used in our homes as well as businesses. By using solar energy the requirement of fossil fuel can be reduced which is being used for the generation of electricity as well as it will reduce the use of oil/diesel for driving the vehicle. Reduction in use of fossil fuel as well as oil/diesel will reduce the greenhouse effect nearly to half. Solar power generation has emerged as one of the most rapidly growing renewable sources of electricity solar power generation has other advantages over another form of electricity generation. A solar roadway is an intelligent highway infrastructure which is capable of self-healing decentralized power grid which eliminates the need for fossil fuels in future. It also features wildlife preservation, the elimination of impervious surfaces, law enforcement, DUI detection, counter-terrorism, etc. Therefore, it’s time to update our infrastructure (especially roads & power grids) with the latest technology roads utilizing the solar energy i.e. “Solar Roadways”. Solar power production generates electricity with a limited impact on the environment as compared to other forms of electricity. The solar roadways are eco-friendly, feasible & reduce the 70%accident.