Abstract
The Secretary of Transportation of the city of Sao Paulo recently released a public consultation for the city’s Urban Mobility plan. This consultation is quite broad in scope, addressing many different areas of the bus public transportation modal in the city, including the operation itself, control and bus terminal administration. The proposal contains guidelines to reorganize the actual services using the infrastructure already deployed. This article will bring to light the development stages of the ITS in the United States, Europe, and Japan while focusing on the technology portion of the Sao Paulo tender such as: (i) planning and scheduling systems, (ii) operational control center and its technologies to monitor and control the operation, (iii) the on-board technologies, and (iv) the integration to the existing track and location (T&L), control and reporting system called SIM – Sistema Integrado de Monitoramento (Integrated Monitoring System). The main goal of this article is to map the proposed ITS system for the city of Sao Paulo and compare it to the world class systems operating in the major cities in the world highlighting the areas of excellence and the ones with room for improvement.
Highlights
Nowadays, it is extremely difficult to decouple Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) from the concept of smart cities
Most cities worldwide were not built with the vision for expansion, such as new streets and avenues, bus lanes, or Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)
The correct use of technology can boost the correlation of the road network, bus lanes, BRT and its clients
Summary
It is extremely difficult to decouple Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) from the concept of smart cities. Even the construction of monorails and subways lines can be onerous and inefficient due to the need to renovate overall infrastructures around these cities in order to accommodate new public transportation options. In the Latin American scenario the technology and the intelligent transportation systems play a more important role in this equation and both necessary to improve road network capacity. The ITS deployment was led by United States of America, Europe and Japan. The incentive for these regions has many similarities, including the economical interest supported by technology, the need to expand the transportation systems, and a coordinated effort between the industry, government, and academia
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