Transforming urban mobility: Key transportation trends in smart cities

Cities have long been a challenging environment for travelling by car. From the dawn of the automotive era when they had to coexist with horses and carriages to the sheer volume of people trying to move around today’s megacities, the individually-owned car has created as many problems as it has solved. Traffic delays, valuable land mass dedicated to parking, and emissions from idling vehicles are just some of the societal costs of personal car travel in urban areas.