Design of Urban Mobility Services for an Intermediate City in a Developing Country, Based on an Intelligent Transportation System Architecture

Abstract

Problem: Services that use ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) have been developed to improve the mobility in cities; however, especially in developing countries, these services are not often based on adequate reference architectures, such as ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) architectures, which prevent integration and interoperability. Objective: Propose a development process for the design of mobility services in an intermediate city of a developing country, based on an ITS architecture formulated particularly considering context. Methods: The reference ITS architectures and the particular context of a Colombian intermediate city are reviewed, in order to identify which is the best process to adapt an ITS architecture to these type of cities. With the process identified, the ITS architecture for Popayan (Colombian intermediate city) is designed and finally, the design of the services based on it, is carried out. Results: The methodology developed for the design of the ITS architecture and the architecture designed particularly for Popayan are summarized. Following, the design of two mobility services (“Public transport vehicle tracking” and “Traffic measurement”) for that city based on architecture is detailed. Conclusions: The particular environment of an intermediate city and its priorities allows to determine the services to select for its ITS architecture from a reference architecture. ITS architecture development of a city allows the incremental development of services that really improve their mobility in a sustainable manner.