Traffic management for future urban mobility

Abstract

Advancements within mobility technology coupled with rapidly urbanizing cities results in an increased taxation on existing mobility systems, causing transportation planners and policymakers across the world to foreseeably face challenges in traffic congestion and incorporation of strategies targeting future urbanized mobility. Given this backdrop, the project details a qualitative study into traffic management techniques which can serve to complement future mobility, through commencing with an initial examination towards existing traffic management infrastructure implemented in the city of Singapore on Traffic Signal Controls (TSCs) at traffic junctions. With ever increasing trends towards vehicular electrification, Autonomous Vehicles, and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) that consequently affects existing transportation considerations, the project seeks to enable future urban mobility through the exploration and evaluation of possibilities in implementing futuristic traffic management controls through the re-engineering of existing TSCs. This would be complemented with findings from surveys gauging sentiments amongst the local populace regarding traffic management matters in Singapore, for better estimates on the impact of traffic management to individuals, and to have an understanding on the sufficiency of present traffic management actions. Findings from the project is expected to have unique value benefitting traffic planners and policymakers in the identification of gaps within existing traffic management techniques serving future mobility, better evaluate traffic management techniques for adoption, and to support future formulation of transport policies and necessary traffic management upgrades to facilitate smooth transition of traffic management towards future urban mobility.