Use of technology in improving urban transport

Iva Toš

City of Zagreb

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7307/ptsm.2020.9
Published

2021-09-09

Issue

Vol 1 (2021)

Key words:

smart city, smart solution, technology, urban development

Abstract

People must be able to move around to meet their basic needs, but also additional needs that include rest and recreation. The growing trend of urbanization leads to population growth in cities, and thus to an increase in demands on the transport
system in cities, with the achievement of sustainable urban mobility as one of the key challenges. Cities worldwide have started to look for solutions which enable transportation linkages, mixed land uses and high-quality services with long – term
positive effect on the economy. Today cities are flooded with a range of data, both useful and useless. In that large database, city administration should recognize the importance of processing, analyzing and mathematical-statistical processing. Each
city should determine its vision, goals and strategies of transforming itself and developing smart services at basis of collected data and their processing. Future initiatives of a smart city and smart transportation should be focused on creating efficient, environmentally friendly transport, based on interactive solutions for smartphones. There are a lot of applications and technologies that contribute to smart cities. Although technology is evolving every day, there is always room for improvement by using available data, smart management and individual approach to each city, it is possible to achieve an improvement in public transport services, which would also improve the quality of life in urban areas.

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