Sustainable Mobility for Road Users: Contribution of Intelligent Transport Systems (Australian Context)

摘要

Mobility is essential for economic reasons; for journey of individuals, goods and services across the transport network. While delays, incidents and accidents and pollution in the transportation network are a cost to the economy; reduction of these delays, elimination of fatalities and injuries and reduction in harmful emissions helps in economic well being, improvement in quality of life and an improvement in livability. A comprehensive literature review was conducted to determine what does sustainable mobility mean for road users and the contribution of ITS towards sustainable mobility. Also, the benefits for the community derived from integrated applications of ITS are context based and difficult to comprehend fully both by policy makers and practitioners. Sustainability is not just the use of more energy efficient technologies and reducing environmental footprint. It is the entire gamut of solutions and possibilities to improve accessibility, reduce delays, reduce incidents and accidents and enhance societal benefits in a sustainable manner i.e. meeting societal mobility demands without sacrificing any human, societal or environmental values.