Abstract
Sustainable urban mobility refers to the sustainable transportation mode in terms of social, environmental, and climate impacts. Cycling has emerged as one of the most sustainable means of urban travel due to its flexibility, low costs, reduced carbon emissions, improved traffic, and mobility in cities. Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication is becoming a reality standard. Non-motorized vehicles, such as bikes, are expected to participate in V2V and Vehicle-To-Everything (V2X) networking alongside cars and trucks, although they have gotten significantly less attention. In this paper, we analyze and experimentally evaluate Bike-to-Bike (Bi2Bi) wireless communication in different urban scenarios, considering full topo-morphological characteristics of urban environments by means of deterministic 3D Ray Launching hybrid simulations. Communication and data exchange between bikes relies on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, and specifically, on ZigBee. We analyze Bi2Bi communication and cooperation towards sustainable smart mobility, following a holistic approach providing a tool based on the city platform to monitor and understand the impact of mobility at both city and citizen level and to provide accurate information on carbon footprint reduction, for multiple city/system stakeholders.
Highlights
Sustainable transport systems have gained significant attention in recent years because of the growth of energy use and air pollution
The reports issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicate that city traffic causes a proportion for approximately 13% of the global total of CO2 emissions [1]
We present the ‘‘Pamplona City App,’’ a mobile application that allows, among other things, citizens to organize their routes according to their interests, monitor their carbon footprint and know the impact of their mobility on the city
Summary
Sustainable transport systems have gained significant attention in recent years because of the growth of energy use and air pollution. Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs), whose solutions are widely developed by the IEEE 802.15 Working Group, and emerging trends in Low Power Wide Area Networking (LPWAN) play an important role in connecting bikes [6], [7]. This opens an opportunity to design a data communication network that perfectly suits/adapted to the dynamic movement of bikes.
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