Urban mobility is at the core of most cities in our modern era. How effectively transportation operates is often used as a metric to determine a city’s development, sustainability, and overall quality of life.

As such, your transit agency must have the right tools implemented to help reflect the efficiency of your city’s transport.

Read on to learn how Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) can be the perfect way to improve urban mobility for your transport network.

Optimized vehicle journeys

Using ITS can help you ensure optimized vehicle journeys to increase efficiency and rider satisfaction, but how?

With real-time vehicle monitoring, you’ll receive accurate positional information for all your vehicles, showing you exactly where they are during every point of their journeys.

As a result, you can receive intelligent suggestions for the best route for each vehicle to take to get to their next stop.

This can help you navigate things like road closures, peak traffic times, and more, helping you provide the most efficient journeys for every vehicle.

Improved handling of passenger demand

Another way you can improve your urban mobility with ITS is by handling your passenger demand more effectively.

First of all, ITS is great at identifying unmet demand and showing you where you might have missed out on revenue from riders due to not implementing the right routes at the right times, for example.

On top of that, you can use real-time vehicle monitoring to determine the best arrival times for each vehicle at every stop.

This can help you spread out the arrivals of each vehicle to produce a seamless flow that meets rider demand.

Increased control over transport incidents

You can also use ITS to gain more control over vehicles in your fleet during any incidents or changes that may occur during journeys.

Command centers can use ITS to identify and manage any issues, since the intelligent systems can predict things before they happen – such as transportation gaps or broken ticket machines, for example.

As a result, command centers will have a bird’s-eye view of the entire fleet, and once issues have been detected they can be promptly addressed with minimal disruption to operations. This could include immediately sending out a replacement vehicle if a breakdown is detected or predicted with the ITS.

Advanced passenger information

A huge aspect of improving urban mobility within your transit agency is how you enhance the rider experience. With ITS, this can be achieved through real-time passenger information.

This allows your passengers to receive accurate information on the expected arrival times of each vehicle at a stop. More importantly, as these times vary due to things like delays or re-routing, the changes will be updated in real-time for the riders.

Solar-powered displays can be set to show this information on vehicles, platforms, streets, and more, for easy access and visibility.

This way, your riders will have a clearer idea of their total journey time, allowing them to plan more effectively around this.

If improving urban mobility is a priority for your transit agency, then it might be worth considering how ITS can bring a range of valuable changes to your transport operations.

What’s the most important element to improve in your transport network right now?