IEEE Technology and Society Magazine - June 2019 - 32

OPINION

Antonio
Bucchiarone

Transportation Systems in
Smart Cities
odern cities are complex socio-technical
entities that exist to
provide ser vices
effectively to their
residents and visitors. In the mobility context, people need to travel
quickly and conveniently between
locations at different scales, ranging
from a trip of a few blocks to a journey across town or further. Each
trip has its set of requirements. In
some cases time may be of the
essence, but in other cases the cost
may be paramount - or the convenience of door-to-door travel may
be important. In each of these situations, the transportation infrastructure should seamlessly provide the
best option to citizens integrating
different transportation options

M

Meeting traveler's expectations,
and properly exploiting available
transport resources, is becoming a
more and more complex task.
including buses, trains, taxis, bicycles, and cars. The combinatorial
complexity of all these possibilities
negates the option of a single,
monolithic control system. How
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Philip Feldmann

The Resilience of
"Planes, Trains, and
Automobiles"
lective way of organizing transport
(e.g., carpooling, ride and park sharing services, flexi-buses) [1]-[4].
Some of these attempts have been
very successful (e.g., Uber), even if in
most cases these are seen as isolated solutions targeting specific mobility target groups, and are not part of
the city mobility eco-system, which
are mainly based on traditional public and private transport facilities.
The increased demands for more
flexible and multi-modal mobility
solutions have also introduced significant problems related to climate
change, air pollution, etc. For this
reason, there is an extreme need
to rethink mobility. In recent years,
there have been rapid improvements
in technologies such as GPS, Radar,
Lidar and others that have allowed
the creation and improvement of
Autonomous Vehicles (AV). AVs are
vehicles capable, to some extent,
of moving without the control of
humans by sensing their environment. AVs automate some aspects
of the vehicle related to safety,
such as steering or braking, without
human input.
In 2018 the U.S. Department of
Transportation released a policy on

would a grouping, or ensemble of
hierarchies perform in this situation?
How can this diversity, introduced by
the emergence of increasingly shared
modes of transport, live together
with the goal to make Smart Cities
more sustainable?
This document presents a different view than that given by Wiseman in his article "Driverless Cars
will Make Passenger Rails Obsolete,"
(this issue, p. 22). Here we offer
another perspective on the
right motivations and at
the same time appropr iate limits and obstacles,
to integrate autonomous
vehicles into current transport systems.

Mobility Today
Organizing and managing
mobility services within a
city, meeting traveler's expectations, and properly exploiting
available transport resources, is
becoming a more and more complex
task. The inadequacy of traditional
transportation models is proven by
the prolification of alternative, social,
and grassroots initiatives aiming at a
more flexible, customized, and colIEEE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY MAGAZINE

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