The Smart Traffic solution solves the problem of traffic management in urban environments in an intelligent and adaptive way. Consisting of the installation of low-cost sensors throughout the city streets and intersections, a continuous traffic monitoring with wireless communications is provided, enabling prompt and efficient traffic control to management systems and authorities.
The goals of the action of Smart Mobility of Amsterdam is improving the safety, accessibility, quality of life and attractiveness of the city. Goals for the action program specifically:
1. Get insights in (technological) developments and innovations in the field of mobility and its impact on the city.
2. Anticipate on technological innovations and use these to reach the goals.
3. Stimulate and accelerate innovation in the city.
4. Strengthen cooperation with knowledge institutions and market parties.
The concept of sharing economy and its applications have been spread internationally since long time ago. Combined with the green economy, two emerging forms of economic models create multiplier effect for a city’s development of smart applications. Taipei Smart City Project Management Office successfully matched the domestic innovative company, Wemo, and Taipei City Government to introduce U-Motor rental service. It helps to reduce the holdings of private vehicles, encourages the use of green vehicles.
Safer Place develops an innovative, award-winning video-based technology platform to enhance high-risk traffic and parking violations enforcement. The single platform detects all types of moving violations: Disobey road signs, Failure to Yield, Mobile texting, Crossing solid lines, Driving in bus lanes, Illegal turns & all types of urban parking violations: Blocking the sidewalk, Parking on a crosswalk, In a bus stop, Double parking and more.
JCDecaux offers local communities an environmentally- friendly service via Cyclocity. The s ervice is easy to use, promotes urban mobility and complements the existing public transport network. The scheme consists of cycle stations that remain open 24/7 or only during the day and are equipped with bicycles and docking points. It allows users to hire a bike with their membership card or bank card.
Blinkee.city offers a fast and ecological transport through a crowded city. The users can rent an electric moped, bicycle or electric scooter the closest to them.
COUP is an eScooter sharing service focusing on individual urban mobility.The scooters are electrically powered, connected, emission free and quiet.They are designed with an extensive sensor system and intelligence starting from display design and replaceable batteries to regenerative braking system and charging stations.
Smart bike with drive unit, rechargeable battery and on-board computer: Each of the three products features the highest technical quality, together ensuring maximum riding enjoyment. The individual components of the Bosch eBike system harmonize like a well-drilled team. The result is a perfectly coordinated combination for maximum efficiency, comfort and riding enjoyment.
The city of Pontevedra created a car-free city model. The central idea of the model is the number of cars needed for the proper functioning of the city is much lower than we think, but the efficient and dynamic operation of urban transport must be ensured by meeting complex needs. Traditional urban models mostly focus on motor vehicles, while pedestrians are almost completely ignored.
Virtual power plants pool energy from a broad variety of plant types and forward it to the distribution networks that are connected to them. To do this, they must be able to strike a balance between the over- and under-supply of power that occurs when renewable sources of energy are used. For this reason, most combined power plants are equipped with energy storage systems.