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Smart mobility solutions for a smart city

January 1, 2021 by Alok Prakash

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Smart mobility is a key component in smart city initiatives that are currently being explored around the world by authorities, industry players, and academics alike. The term smart mobility encompasses many facets of mobility, including improving public transport services, providing guidance to commuters and motorists, and realtime traffic monitoring and management, among others.

This article provides a brief overview of various technologies that are being developed to enable smart mobility in modern smart cities, with a special emphasis on techniques for improving public transport services. It also touches briefly on other aspects of smart mobility, such as leveraging smart phones for information dissemination and guidance to travelers as well as low-cost sensors for real-time traffic monitoring and management.

For more about this article see link below.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9307335

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