Towards a New Mobility Concept for Cities

António Cunha, Joaquim Varandas, Jorge Dias, Rui Rocha and Stefan van der Spek

Nova Terra Connected Cities
Interreg IIIC Network publication, pages 27-31, Feb. 2007.

Abstract

In many urban environments, the use of private cars causes severe problems of traffic congestion, energy consumption (dependency on oil resources), air and noise pollution and safety, leading to a general reduction in quality of life and making historic city centres less attractive to both tourists and residents. Moreover, the problems of many city centres are compounded by a movement of businesses to the periphery. Although public transportation systems have recently undergone many improvements (mostly due to information technologies), in many cases the private car still offers a much better service for the individual. All this amounts to a non-sustainable development of urban transportation.

Small autonomous electric vehicles or cybercars, may be a flexible solution to public transport systems in specific areas. They could complement mass transit and non-motorised transportation, providing passenger services for any location at any time. Such systems are known as cybernetic transportation system (CTS).

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@ARTICLE(Cunha_et_al_07,

AUTHOR = "Cunha, A. and Varandas, J. and Rocha, R. and Dias, J. and van der Spek, S.",

TITLE = "Towards a New Mobility Concept for Cities",

JOURNAL = "Nova Terra Connected Cities",

YEAR = "2007

MONTH = "Feb.

PAGES = "27-31"

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