Smart Urban Mobility: When Mobility Systems Meet Smart Data

SMART – Future Urban Mobility

This paper presents an overview of the Future Urban Mobility programme of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). Through this programme, MIT is establishing a research centre in Singapore with the mission to support sustainability and improve transportation system performance through innovations in infrastructure, technology, operations and policy. Two key areas of rese...

Urban Transport Optimization – a Smart Mobility Approach

Each person who travels in a city wants to arrive to the destination as quickly as possible. Nevertheless, in the same time, from an urban transportation company’s perspective, it is also very important to assure that the access to public transport services is available for as many people as possible, according to their needs. In this paper, we try to present a model of public urban transport o...

Smart Mobility

When Smart Cities meet Big Data

Sharing information is a key enabler in the transition of a city becoming smart. Information, generated by the ICT backbone of a city, and maintained by distinct public and private entities, comes with processing challenges that must be addressed in order to increase citizens’ quality of life and make their cities sustainable. In CRISALIS and SysSec, we investigate such challenges from a securi...

Urban Policies and Mobility Trends in Italian Smart Cities

This study uses indicators to evaluate the progress made by Italian cities in the smart mobility sector, in order to understand how these cities have approached the new guidelines imposed by the European Union, and how they have implemented the European changes. Specifically, this study analyses the evolution of public transportation systems, using a sample of twenty-two Italian cities for thre...