Achieving Energy Savings by Intelligent Transportation Systems Investments in the Context of Smart Cities
Faced with the challenge of providing adequate transport services with limited resources, cities have, for several decades, been investing in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). ITS utilize Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to m...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/04/26291305/achieving-energy-savings-intelligent-transportation-systems-investments-context-smart-cities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24740 |
| Summary: | Faced with the challenge of providing
adequate transport services with limited resources, cities
have, for several decades, been investing in Intelligent
Transportation Systems (ITS). ITS utilize Information and
Communications Technology (ICT) to make more efficient use
of existing transport infrastructure with the aim of
improving transport services and reducing congestion,
accidents, and air pollution. In the past two decades, with
the rapid advancement of ICT and intensive advocacy from big
technology vendors, the concept of ‘smart cities’ has gained
great popularity and many cities have started to undertake a
more holistic approach to improving urban services using
technology in the name of smart city initiatives. Section
two introduces these themes, which serve as the analytical
framework to understand how smart mobility investments lead
to energy savings. The comparison in the search for
similarities among the case studies and interviews helped us
develop a conceptual model, emphasizing cause and effect and
presented in section three, of how ITS deployment and
operation in the context of smart cities leads to energy
saving benefits. This conceptual model is presented with
detailed discussions of institutional, technological, and
physical conditions at each step in the model. Section four
focuses on energy savings with quantitative evidence of
energy saving potential of ITS investments collected from
literature and case studies. Section five links the results
of this study to the Wuhan Integrated Transport Development
Project and how the knowledge has been incorporated into
project design. To further explore the energy efficiency
potential of Wuhan and to mainstream ITS and smart transport
solutions as a source of achieving energy efficiency using
results of this study, a TRACE analysis was also completed
as part of this research effort. This analysis focused on
the passenger transport sector. Finally, policy
recommendations on the major conditions under which ITS
investments in the context of smart cities achieve energy
savings are summarized in Section 6 with specific
implications for cities in the developing countries. |
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