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Slicing Smart Cities. Slice 4 - Mobility & Urban Planning
The document discusses urban mobility and planning in smart cities, emphasizing the impact of city design on transportation and public services. It addresses challenges such as reliance on private vehicles, traffic congestion, and pollution, proposing solutions like efficient public transport and intelligent transportation systems. New trends also focus on people-centric urban environments, promoting walkability, accessibility, and resilience against climate change.
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- 1. Slicing Smart Cities Ashort introduction to the urban spaces of the 21st century Slice 4. Mobility & Urban Planning Created by Joan Manuel Lopez @TheBitCity Under CC BY-SA 4.0 License
- 2. 2 ➢ Mobility &Urban Planning ✔ Overview ✔ Urban Mobility ✔ Intelligent Transportation Systems ✔ Urban Planning ✔ Public safety ✔ Resilience
- 3. 3 Overview ➔ Mobility Movement betweenan origin point and a destination point, regardless the mean of transport used ➔ Urban Planning Planification and design of urban spaces and their provision of services The way a city is designed affects the way to move within it
- 4. 4 Overview ➔ Urban mobilitychallenges ➔ Excessive dependence on private vehicles ➔ Important source of pollution ➔ Congestion of urban and interurban roads ➔ Urban planning challenges ➔ Growth of urban population ➔ Increasing pressure over services and infrastructures ➔ Informal settlements Environmental and social problems
- 5. 5 Urban Mobility Movement betweenan origin point and a destination point ➔ Fundamental right of citizens ➔ Safety Low accident rate→ ➔ Accesibility Within everyone's reach→ ➔ Confort Under optimal conditions→ ➔ Smooth Without unjustified interruptions→
- 6. 6 Urban Mobility Improvement actions: ➔Efficient public transportation system ➔ Encourage multimodality ➔ Promotion of non-polluting modes ➔ Adoption of ITS ➔ Urban design approaching citizens and services to distances easily covered on foot
- 7. 7 Intelligent Transportation Systems Takingadvantage of the possibilities of ICT in transportation management ➔ Knowledge in real-time of the state of urban and interurban roads ➔ Knowledge in real-time of the state of the public transportation system ➔ Information about optimal ways ➔ "Journey planner" tools ➔ Enabling integrated pricing systems
- 8. 8 Intelligent Transportation Systems ➔Examples of use of ITS ➔ Management of urban buses fleets ➔ Control center of railway traffic ➔ Management of regulated parking areas ➔ Development of innovative services, usually on non-polluting modes ➔ Bikesharing (bicing, vélib, etc.) ➔ Management of charging points for electrical vehicles ➔ Carpooling (BlaBlaCar, etc.) ➔ Self-guided urban walking tours
- 9. 9 Urban Planning ➔ Newtrends focused on people ➔ 20th century Focused on private vehicle→ ➔ Importance of urban environment ➔ Maintenance of elements and spaces ➔ Consider the effects of climate change ➔ Face situations caused by more extreme weather conditions Storms, droughts, global warming
- 10. 10 New trends inurbanism ➔ Walkable neighbourhoods ➔ Safe travel on foot ➔ All services accesible within short distances ➔ Mixed uses ➔ Diversity of uses in an area ➔ Parks, green areas, leisure areas ➔ Pedestrianization of shopping areas ➔ Improvement of the accessibility for handicaped or people with reduced mobility
- 11. 11 Public safety Development ofa Control Center for continuously monitoring the city ➔ Receive and process information from sensors, cameras and / or other sources ➔ Coordinated with security forces and emergencies Prevent and/or mitigate the adverse effects caused by unusual situations that affect the normal development of the activities in the city.
- 12. 12 Resilience ➔ Capacity (ofsth) to overcome abnormal situations ➔ Design services or infrastructures so that they can recover their functionality as soon as possible ➔ Example: adaptability to climate change ➔ Flooding parks on river basins
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