Rebecca Maloney
Americas Press Office ,Boston
Intelligent Connectivity for Seamless Urban Mobility, a report by Arup in collaboration with Qualcomm, has launched.
Cities today must contend with the challenges of density growth, resource constraints, and a progressively volatile climate. At the same time, more and more data is available on the patterns of city life, providing the means to surmount these challenges and shape a more efficient and accessible urban existence. Specifically, the operation and planning of mobility can greatly impact the economic activity and environmental quality of city life.
A collaboration between Arup’s Foresight + Research + Innovation team and Transportation Planning practice and Qualcomm Technologies Inc., Intelligent Connectivity for Seamless Urban Mobility explores a future vision for urban mobility which includes new choices for individual trip-making, better information for smarter decision-making, and system optimisation to utilise infrastructure efficiently; all in service of fostering a seamless, safe, and sustainable travel experience.
Intelligent Connectivity for Seamless Urban Mobility, a report by Arup in collaboration with Qualcomm, has launched.
The key to this vision of urban mobility is Intelligent Connectivity, the sum of the systems, services, and technologies connecting people, data, and infrastructure. Our vision combines a wide range of emerging technologies to enable smarter, healthier, more resilient, and economically robust urban life. Intelligent Connectivity also requires a shift in thinking towards integration across systems and scales as well as a strong foundation in innovative data and communications.
The report details the current challenges of urban mobility, suggests technological, infrastructure, and policy solutions, and distills explorations of the future into a series of “user journeys”. These visionary examples detail four user’s experiences of an Intelligently Connected city of the 2030s, projecting possible ways in which the future of mobility is likely to differ from today’s systems.
The report is now available for download.