Transportation-enabled urban services: A brief discussion
Nearly 55% of the world's population lives in urban areas or cities, and is expected to rise above 70% over the coming decades. Rapid urbanization brings steadily more residents and a growing freelancing workforce into cities. The developments of city infrastructure and technologies—for instanc...
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
2022
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| Summary: | Nearly 55% of the world's population lives in urban areas or cities, and is expected to rise above 70% over the coming decades. Rapid urbanization brings steadily more residents and a growing freelancing workforce into cities. The developments of city infrastructure and technologies—for instance, mobile location tracking and computing, autonomous and connected vehicles, wearable devices, robotics and robots, smart appliances, biometric authentication, various internet-of-things devices, and smart monitoring systems—are creating numerous opportunities and inspiring innovative and emerging urban services. Among these innovations, complex systems of urban transportation and logistics have embraced advances in technologies and, consequently, been significantly reshaped (Agatz et al., 2021). |
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