How Future Technology in Road Transportation Could Create a More Sustainable Built Environment?
This paper presents the future technological trends in the area of road transportation both in urban and suburban areas. These new practices have been developed under the framework of “Intelligent Transport Systems” (ITS), targeting the creation of a more sustainable built environment with numerous benefits in social, financial and ecological features. Uncontrolled traffic leads to traffic congestion both in both urban and suburban areas increasing fuel consumption, CO₂ emissions, and traffic noise and travel time. The present transportation trends are the development of new “smart” products, divided in three interdependent paths: smart cars; smart roads; and a smart transportation system. The rise of the new era of “Internet of Things” and the implementation of ITS technologies in “smart cars” actually means a data flow between the road and the vehicle or among vehicles themselves. Development of such technologies leads to autonomous cars and driverless mobility. By the term “smart road” the authors describe roads able to communicate with each other and with vehicles, transferring data and becoming adaptable in the future transport demand. Finally, the development of a “smart transportation system” could embrace all in process technology from the summary of transport modes mainly in urban areas creating an interface among transport built environment, transport modes and commuters. Implementation of new technologies could create numerous benefits in all aspects of daily transport needs, improving the quality of life both in urban and suburban areas and thus preserving the environment for future generations.
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- Abstract republished with permission of City Net Scientific Research Center, Belgrade.
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Corporate Authors:
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Authors:
- Galanis, Athanasios
- Eliou, Nikolaos
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Conference:
- Second International Conference on Traffic and Transport Engineering (ICTTE)
- Location: Belgrade , Serbia
- Date: 2014-11-27 to 2014-11-28
- Publication Date: 2014
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: References;
- Pagination: pp 512-516
- Monograph Title: Proceedings of Second International Conference on Traffic and Transport Engineering (ICTTE)
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automated highways; Environmental policy; Intelligent transportation systems; Intelligent vehicles; Sustainable development; Sustainable transportation; Technological innovations
- Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01603835
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 9788691615321
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jun 29 2016 1:44PM