{"id":38675,"date":"2021-12-08T12:20:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T11:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intellias.com\/?p=38675"},"modified":"2024-01-11T14:17:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T13:17:55","slug":"urban-transportation-planning-how-to-achieve-balance-through-technology","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/intellias.com\/urban-transportation-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Transportation Planning: How to Achieve Balance through Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rudyard Kipling once wrote that the law of the jungle never orders anything without a reason. (And also that only the fittest will survive.)<\/p>\n

In modern urban jungles, this principle holds true \u2014 there\u2019s always a reason behind horrendous traffic jams or poor public transport services, which only the fittest urban dwellers can survive without silently cursing under their breath.<\/p>\n

But leaving your home and going places doesn\u2019t have to feel like a daily battle. The sooner we achieve better urban transportation planning, the more collective value we\u2019ll obtain.<\/p>\n

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By 2030, mobility innovation could radically transform everything from power systems to the use of public space, while simultaneously introducing a new city dynamism. In 50 metropolitan areas, home to 500 million people, integrated mobility systems could produce benefits, including improved safety and reduced pollution, worth up to $600 billion.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/span> McKinsey<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/small>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t<\/section>\n

So how could (and should) a sustainable transportation system of the future look like? What technologies do we have in place to design such systems, and how feasible are different use cases? We answer these questions and more in this post.<\/p>\n

What is urban transportation?<\/h2>\n

Urban transportation is the collection of means we use to transport passengers and goods into, out of, and within the city limits.<\/p>\n

Effective urban transportation engineering is tough. Planners have to create optimal routes and supporting infrastructure for ever-growing municipalities, crowded by both personal and private vehicles. Plus, they have to work with private mobility companies entering the space.<\/p>\n

What does it take to succeed? You need to accurately predict urban transportation demand and manage supply while staying profitable and ensuring satisfactory service levels.<\/p>\n

Pressing urban transportation problems<\/h3>\n

A tiger has stripes and urban transportation is prone to disruption \u2014 every five-year-old will tell you that.<\/p>\n

The complexity of urban transportation systems is proportionate to the size of the urban areas they serve. However, rising demand (on account of more people) isn\u2019t always optimally met by increasing supply (adding more means of public and private transportation).<\/p>\n

Due to that, several acute urban transportation problems remain unresolved:<\/p>\n