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SMART MOBILITY 2018

Environment-friendly solutions designed to achieve cop-less junctions
shall be focusing on providing better and performance management of
alternatives for mobility of urban system and staff through KPI driven
dwellers aimed at reducing the dashboards and MIS.
carbon footprint and noise pollution.
Inclusiveness requires that suitable Shah highlighted the high stress levels
mobility solutions are made available and decreased productivity caused
for all segments of society i.e. different by the daily commute and suggested
age groups children to aged, differently that working from home whenever
abled, different literacy levels, different possible is an alternate solution to
genders, different economic segments daily gridlocks. When he asked Krishna
etc., Data driven decision making Prasad how a public transport network
shall include mobility solutions such as can be expanded and how more
traveller information systems (Mobile people can be persuaded to use it, the
App/web-portal) for pre-trip planning
Mobility solutions and en-route decisions, control centre latter joked that it’s a chicken-and-egg
in future shall be and data analytics for decision making situation. Krishna Prasad said, “As a
nation, we have started thinking about
characterised by in incident management, enhancing Smart Cities at the right time, but the
safety and efficiency.
their environmental IBI Group is involved in design aspirations of a typical Indian middle-
friendliness, citizen and implementation of two such class family includes the acquisition
projects Bhubaneshwar smart City
of materialistic things, which cannot
inclusiveness and and Hyderabad Intelligent Traffic be avoided. From buying the latest
data driven decision Management System (ITMS) as a model of mobile phone every year, the
Consultant in the former and as System
support systems. Integrator in later. Mobility System for trend has shifted to buying the latest
car, which is marketed in a way that is
Bhubaneshwar which is also planned to
Venkata Chunduru be Child friendly city, was designed by irresistible to the consumer.”
IBI comprised of six modules i.e. Smart When asked how government bodies
Traffic, Smart Transit, Smart Response, with differing mandates all work can
ICCC, Smart Payment and City together for a common transport
manages the environment in which Communication System. Bhubaneshwar solution, Dr Jagtap said that the Pune
the first three constituents operate. Urban Knowledge Centre managed by
Institutional set-up is also responsible IBI was aimed at strengthening the Smart City Board has representatives
for the 3E’s – Engineering, Education institutional capacity and capability of from various organisations such as
and Enforcement. To have in place a all the five organisations engaged in the municipal corporation, public
sustainable i.e. efficient, economical developing and managing the City’s transport authority and the police, as
and green mobility, the Institutions municipal services. In Hyderabad ITMS well as elected representatives from
involved shall constantly and actively project, the focus was on capturing both the ruling and opposition parties,
engage and respond to changing needs the right data and sharing it with the citizen groups and academicians. These
and environment. right people at the right time to have stakeholders, who once looked for
He said that the mobility solutions in right interventions for enhancing the solutions in isolation, now find them
future shall be characterised by their road user experience in terms of safe, together in a citizen-centric manner.
environmental friendliness, citizen economical and comfortable journey
inclusiveness and data driven decision across city roads. ITMS also involves Chunduru said that in the future of
support systems. Above all, Alternate integration of signalling system with urban mobility, he sees a focus on green
Mobility i.e. solutions that reduce the real time traffic to reduce idling time transport. People will also find ways to
need for mobility shall also be given due at junctions and further reducing reduce travel by choosing alternatives
importance. pollution. For authority, ITMS is such as telecommuting.

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