A good city has to have a reliable transport system. With growing population and increasing consumer requirements, it is important that city authorities get their act together and devise plans that smartly tackle such demands. In other words, designing transport systems that blend well into the strategic vision of a modern city would ensure safe mobility for citizens.
The increasing presence of bycicles in our cities.
Mobility for future cities entails an amalgamation of various technologies that keep people’s well-being and safety as the common denominator, along with the objective to set up an optimised transport system. Long story short, bicycle would become more prominent on our roads a few years down the line.
The bicycle has been making a comeback recently to quite a few cities. As per statistics, 2.5 billion people (and counting) use the bicycle as a personal transport vehicle to meet their routine commuting requirements.
The authorities have interpreted correctly the bicycle’s role of a reliable transport vehicle in cities. As a consequence, these municipal authorities have chosen to create dedicated cycling routes or tracks to make cycling easier and safe on city roads.
If there is no effective safety setup, riding bicycles on city roads would become a mere novelty since it wouldn’t be safe to ride a fairly slow-moving vehicle on the same path as motor-powered vehicles. Keeping this aspect in mind, mobility technicians have come up with safe intersections for people who cycle. These include exclusive zebra steps, stop bars, island-shaped corners, and several other similar signs.
The availability and mobility of different transport elements shouldn’t be in conflict. Those without any transport means can avail commuting options such as bicycle sharing systems. The bike sharing setup is quite widespread and it would not be too long before this arrangement becomes one of the most effective and reliable ways to move around in cities.
Though motor bikes aren’t as environment-friendly as cycles, we cannot ignore the fact that these motor bikes have significantly contributed to the reduction of cars on the road. Moreover, these motor bikes can be shared as well.
Towards a collaborative use of the means of transport.
But what if people are unsure about sharing or using shared vehicles?
For such people, there is something called tolls. People should pay for such a facility to ensure their vehicles do not end up getting shared.
The toll system is intuitive and intelligently designed to make sure every timezone has a different rate and private vehicle usage is discouraged during peak traffic hours, which means lesser pollution and lesser accident risks.
Technology can be used effectively to bring about safe and reliable mobility in future cities.
As far as road traffic is concerned, data is still powerful and permits maintaining a fluid traffic flow, and helps avoid chaos during peak traffic hours or within more crowded spots.
Delivering real-time data to public officials and drivers would help with managing the toll system, limiting access to conflicting zones and providing alternative transportation and car parks if there is an accidental congestion. All of this can be attained via sensor usage. These sensors would send messages to the control centres and also the motorists.
Future cities are betting high on facilitating mobility either via bringing the bicycle back onto the roads, discouraging use of private vehicles as much as possible, and resorting to intelligent car parks and communication system to mitigate traffic jams and eliminate the waste of time they cause. Moreover, these urban mobility lessons for cities of the future would bring down pollution levels significantly and, most importantly, enhance citizens’ quality of life.
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