Smart Mobility: Using Technology to Improve Transportation in Smart Cities addresses the nature and characteristics of smart cities and provides a focus on smart mobility within urban areas and the opportunities and challenges associated with the application of advanced transportation technologies. The three highly qualified authors include an emphasis on decarbonization possibilities and the potential for smart mobility to reduce emissions and fuel consumption while optimizing modal use, along with risk identification and management using a structured approach.

A focus is also placed on the need for end-to-end travel support from original origin to ultimate destination, reflecting consumer needs for comprehensive decision support and travel support services. Overall, Smart Mobility: Using Technology to Improve Transportation in Smart Cities provides a framework, planning, and KPIs for smart mobility success and explains how effective performance management can be enabled.

Additional topics covered in the modern and thought-provoking work include:

Policies and strategies associated with smart mobility, including a description of the organizational arrangements required to support smart mobility technologies
The definition of appropriate institutional, funding, and commercial arrangements to assist interested practitioners to solve what is often their biggest challenge
Smart mobility operational management, explaining the likely impact of smart mobility on transportation operations
How to attain balance between transportation objectives and the avoidance of undesirable side effects such as congestion

For public and private sector professionals in the smart mobility community, Smart Mobility: Using Technology to Improve Transportation in Smart Cities is an essential and easy-to-understand learning resource that will help readers comprehend the state-of-the-art progress in the field and be prepared for future advancements in this important and rapidly-developing industry.

Auteur

Bob McQueen, Bob McQueen and Associates, USA/France, has a broad range of experience in the application of advanced technologies to transportation, gained in assignments over the past 30 years. Ammar Safi, Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, Dubai, UAE has 10 years of experience in Telecommunication, Electrical, Mobility, Road Safety, and Infrastructure Engineering. Shafia Alkheyaili, Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, Dubai, UAE has eight years of experience in Civil, Mobility, Road Safety, and Infrastructure Engineering.