Objectives

Aim of the Smarter Mobility Network

Empower planners and individual travellers to make smarter (i.e., safer, greener, cheaper) mobility choices to reduce alarming historical trends in injuries, environmental impacts and economic costs.

Objectives

The objectives of the Network are to

• 1. Bring to transportation science and individual travellers new methods to make optimal risk-informed decisions in the face of unreliable or sparse data to enable decision making on existing information,

  2. Empower planners with technology that will help them identify local solutions and interventions to reduce adverse impacts of transportation,

  3. Help developing countries to avoid decades of roadway carnage experienced in countries such as the United Kingdom by making planning decisions proactively rather than reactively, and identifying decisions optimally, rather than by trial and error,

  4. Enable smarter decisions that are responsive to varying conditions in different countries and regions, and customized for individuals travellers,

  5. Challenge the traditional top-down mode of modeling and policy formulation with a FLEXIBLE and MODULAR decision support framework created from data and models locally developed and tested by the partners in different countries,

  6. Build a network of cross-communicating researchers that freely share data, expertise, and OPEN SOURCE models and methods within and beyond the five partner countries,

  7. Facilitate CITIZEN SCIENCE to collect more relevant transportation data that can improve local decision making about mobility,

  8. Realize innovative approaches to address UN Sustainability Goals (e.g., 3.6, 9.0, 10.7, 11.2, 13.2, 17.6), and

  9. Demonstrate the real and valuable contributions that developing countries bring by addressing this intractable problem via a cohesive group of collaborators.