Название: Smart Mobility: Exploring Foundational Technologies and Wider Impacts
Автор: Alaa Khamis
Издательство: Apress
Год: 2021
Страниц: 174
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

Each year we witness several paradigm shifts in mobility systems and services, increasingly so as technology progresses. The future of mobility is people-centric, software-defined, connected, and electric. Now more than ever, it is imperative for current and aspiring leaders in the field to understand the foundations of people-centric smart cities with a focus on sustainability.

Smart Mobility offers a holistic view of the current and emerging smart mobility systems and explores their foundational technologies, technology enablers, and disruptors. Author Alaa Khamis acknowledges the need for smart mobility arising with growing world urbanization, and the impact of this on public health, congestion, and climate change. Khamis expertly interrogates how a focus on smart mobility can mitigate all of these risks using his triad of complementary factors: technology, governance, and city planning.

In this book you’ll study how foundational technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, the Internet of Things, robotics, and many more all work together to allow for smart mobility in our modern era. The socioeconomic changes in our urban centers are vast, and Smart Mobility breaks down the core concepts with meaningful data and insights.

Nowadays, we are witnessing several paradigm shifts in mobility systems and services. Cities are decarbonizing the transportation sector and are moving from car-centric mobility to multimodal mobility, from restricted mobility in two-dimensional streets to 3D mobility, from rigid-schedule mobility to mobility on demand and on an as-needed basis, and from fragmented unconnected mobility to seamless integrated mobility. Mobility companies move from the manufacturing and trade economy to the service economy or servitization such as Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) as the neo-liberalization of people and freight transportation and from the unsustainable “number of cars sold”-based revenue model to “vehicle miles traveled (VMT)-based,” infonomics-based data and customer experience monetization and passenger economy-based revenue models. Delivery service providers move from conventional slow, rigid, and nontransparent last-mile delivery to fast, elastic, and transparent last-mile delivery services. People move from ownership to usership and from passive mobility to active and zero-impact mobility. Different foundational technologies, technology enablers, and mobility disruptors are behind these paradigm shifts.

What You Will Learn:

Explore different mobility modes, including mobility-as-a-service, shared mobility, mobility on demand, the gig economy and the passenger economy
Cover how the smart mobility triad - technology, governance, and city planning - work together to create a smart and sustainable mobility

Who This Book Is For:
Working professionals, students, researchers, technologists, city planners, and the curious layman.