Mobility and Its Vehicular Systems for Smart Cities

Smart Cities focus on creating better quality life for citizens by coping with urban problems such as traffic, pollution, energy consumption, water treatment, etc., and implementing the smart solutions. Mobility is one of the most important components of Smart Cities, not only because of its relationship with traffic, but also because of its impact on several other dimensions. Making mobility smart aims to developing intelligent means, including both physical and cyber-physical systems, to move people and goods inter or intra cities with the ultimate goal of zero fatality, zero injury, zero emission, zero carbon footprint, zero traffic congestion, and zero unnecessary energy waste. Vehicular systems, as one of the key enablers for mobility, currently see many technology advancements ranging from connected systems to autonomous systems. In this talk, we examine the relationship among mobility, vehicular systems, and smart cities, and provide some of the industrial trends and examples on how to use vehicular technologies to advance Smart Mobility, hence, to advance Smart Cities.