Smart Cities, Intelligent Transportation Controlling and Optimizing the Flow of Traffic

City managers across the U.S. are looking for ways to better control traffic to reduce pressure on infrastructure, improve air quality, and make cities more livable. To that end, they are interweaving alternative modes of transportation, active traffic management, and connected vehicles into an intelligent transportation system. The focus of smart transportation is to connect the different modes of transportation – bicycles, public transportation, connected transportation, delivery trucks, and emergency medical service (EMS) vehicles – into an integrated system. The objective is to provide citizens with the information they need to make the right choices about which form of travel is best for them to reach their destination. Moreover, smart transportation systems give city managers the ability to better control the flow of traffic and provide the best routes for emergency and law enforcement personnel responding to incidents, as well as trucks delivering goods.