The share of private cars in urban mobility remains stubbornly high, despite heavy investment into public transport systems over the past decades. Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) can become the game changer by making public transport responsive to the mobility demands of citizens in real time.
This is the message the International Transport Forum (ITF), an intergovernmental organisation for the transport sector with 57 member countries, is taking to the ITS World Congress meeting in Bordeaux, France
Research has proven that traffic congestion results in an increase of air pollution which harms both drivers in traffic jams and those who live near congested roads. The Covid pandemic underlined these results even further when cities which were under lockdown exhibited a significant improvement in air quality.
