Smart urban mobility
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Making urban mobility clean and green is everyone’s dream, but if we want to be successful, we must make sure to reconcile these objectives with users’ needs and expectations. FIA Region I is a consumer body, representing the interests of over 36 million motorists, riders, pedestrians, and passengers, and it works to ensure safe, affordable, clean, and efficient mobility for all. This presentation will be about users’ points of views, needs, and concerns, and will focus on how to keep urban mobility accessible, affordable, and efficient, while it also becomes clean and green.
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The city of Tilburg develops solutions for improvement of quality of life by connecting people, commodities and data both physically and digitally. Our policy is based on the EU concept of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) and the notion that the relation between digital transformation on the one hand and spatial behaviour, mobility, urban systems and costs on the other hand changes exponential instead of linear.
Our mobility and transport policy focusses on the interaction between the orgware, mindware, software and hardware. In the presentation this will be illustrated by describing 4 policy strategies: car free city; development low emission zone (LEZ); smart mobility (autonomous driving), transport from our logistic centres and fastlanes for cycling.
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Data have been called the new oil in transportation and indeed, digitization puts data at the front of new solutions and services. Applications which exchange and reuse data are at the heart of intelligent transport systems (ITS). We will take a look at one of the most promising evolutions in this domain: the national access points implementing the EU ITS directive. Starting from that regulatory initiative, we will discuss the current situation illustrated by the Belgian example. Interestingly, an evolution is underway that will make national access points more effective for three reasons. The first one is that an increasing number of products and services are being developed and deployed able to make use of the national access points, e.g. Mobility as a Service platforms. Secondly, an international cooperation and possibly harmonisation of the ITS access points across Europe is about to tackle common challenges and will improve their cross-border functioning. Thirdly, those access points are intertwined with other European initiatives such as the Mobility Data Space referred to by the Commission in its Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy. Thus the broader policy framework will be included in this presentation.
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Smart and sustainable mobility. Not so difficult to write it down as a goal or vision in urban mobility policy papers. But how to put it into real practice in the SMC’s, the Smaller and Medium sized Cities, where we lack high frequency metro or tram systems ? Private cars in many cases seem to be the most obvious option for many citizens in the SMC’s to get to their final destination.
Cycling of course is a cheap and sustainable alternative for private car use in many cities, especially in countries such as Denmark or the Netherlands with a long cycling tradition and good cycling infrastructure. In addition we see however also the potential benefits of Intelligent Transport Systems ITS and automated driving contributing to safe and sustainable mobility systems in SMC’s. City of Helmond (NL) already has some track record in piloting and deploying ITS-services for more efficient traffic flows in the city. The next step will be deployment of automated shuttles for the first/last mile connections. Current pilots show that the journey towards deployment of automated shuttles will involve quite some obstacles, but is a journey that we believe is worthwhile. In the presentation you will hear about the lessons we learn along the way, from pilot to deployment …
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This paper aims to cover the best practices, innovation and the future trends in Smart Mobility & Smart Cities in Europe and the Middle East – Post Covid. This paper is very relevant to the current situation and has a message to inspire people to see things from a different angle. This paper will discuss the hot issues affecting the transport sector and discuss new development, new projects, and future trends in mobility, what makes smart mobility projects successful and the Innovation in transport and mobility.
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Investments in smart and sustainable infrastructure prepare us for the mobility of the future in which self-driving vehicles, zero-emission transport and MaaS become a reality. However, Flanders is still in its infancy when it comes to digitalisation, automation and innovation. We are accelerating our effort and trying to define and implement intelligent transport services in cooperation with the private sector and the academic world.
To this end, we are installing intelligent traffic control systems to improve traffic flow and reduce emissions. We are also setting up soft regulation for MaaS. And a new Clean Power for Transport action plan was recently drawn up, setting out the ambitions for zero-emission transport towards 2030.
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This is the moment to rethink mobility in Ireland. We have stretching targets to reduce transport emissions by half by 2030. We have major active travel and public transport infrastructure projects happening. We have an opportunity to rethink how people get around after the Covid-19 pandemic. And there are rapid technological advances in transport, smartphones and connectivity. After engagement with 35 stakeholders in Ireland and internationally, we are proposing a MaaS model for Ireland led by public authorities. A new data and services hub with a minimum standardised data set to unlock integration prioritizing public investment in foundational digital infrastructure.