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SMART MOBILITY 2018

Smart City Experiences
Challenges, Benefits and

Future Settings

The ideas discussed on the second day of the Smart Mobility conference
on ‘Driving Smart Mobility’ all had a common underlying motive,

encapsulated in a catchphrase coined by one of the panellists: ‘Mobility
Drives Development’

(L to R) Nirav Shah, Venkataa Chunduru, Dr Rajendra Jagtap and Dr T Krishna Prasad
T Government citizens are happy, comfortable and society, with particular attention paid
Krishna Prasad, Director
General of Police and
to senior citizens, women and children.
convenienced, and their quality of life is
Chairman – Road Safety
These services must improve the citizen’s
good, theirs is a Smart City. Technology
Authority,
quality of life, and also be affordable
of Telangana, kicked off
great but the citizen is not comfortable,
between usefulness and affordability
the session with his thoughts on the is just an enabler; if the technology is for the State. This crucial balance
that city is not Smart. The proof of the
importance of mobility in Smart Cities can be achieved by designing efficient
by first defining what a Smart City is. pudding is in the quality of life. public utilities that draw on sustainable
According to him, there is no single He said that a Smart City needs to resources to ensure their durability and
definition, but to put it simply, if the provide services to all cross-sections of longevity.

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