Smart Urban Mobility Management project: a concrete step towards more sustainable and connected communities

Abstract

Global events in recent years have shown how, for both small and large communities, it is important to ensure mobility of people and goods safer and more respectful of environmental balance. The “Smart Urban Mobility Management” (S.U.M.Ma) Project is designed in this direction. The pilot project, which takes place into the Municipality of Artena, aims to design and test highly innovative tools such as drones, H-D (High Definition) smart cameras, IoT (Internet of Things) Sensors on 5G network and AI (Artificial Intelligence) tools, by integrating environmental datasets, information systems and local databases and taking into account the mobility of traffic flows, the energy efficiency and the control of environmental parameters. In this paper, the general structure of the system architecture has been presented, and the traffic model of the Municipality of Artena has been developed and preliminarily calibrated, with “surrogate” flows. Furthermore, the algorithms for the post-processing of the traffic flows and real-time updating of the traffic model have been introduced. Although the project is still in the closing phase, the results obtained so far show that the proposed system is easily replicable in other Municipalities and it could be an effective tool for the increasingly green and smart management of modern communities.