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Safety, Resilience, and Smart Mobility Services for Passengers and Goods

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Part 0: Course Intro

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Dr. Athena Tsirimpa

Assistant Professor, The American College of Greece

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Aims and Learning Outcomes

Aims

  • Introduction to the concepts of safe and resilient transport
  • Explore smart mobility services for passengers and goods
  • Understand the integration of technology in transport systems

Learning outcomes

  • Outcome 1: Differentiate between various principles of safe transport systems for both passenger and freight services.
  • Outcome 2: Compare the resilience strategies of different transport networks in response to disruptions.
  • Outcome 3: Propose smart mobility solutions that enhance efficiency and sustainability for passenger and freight transport.

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Course Outline

Safety

Why safety matters?

Safety System Approach- Vision Zero

Safety Standards

Real-life examples

Network Resilience

What Makes a Network Resilient?

Technologies Enhancing Resilience

Smart Mobility

Definition of Smart Mobility

The role of smart mobility in urban planning and sustainability

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Course Structure

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Presentations, Publications, Scientific Papers, Industry reports, etc.

Online week

4.5-Hour Interactive Class

Live week

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Global Trends and Transport Systems

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Urbanization

  • Demographic
    • Strong urbanization
    • Population decline in western countries
    • Aging / Family structure

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  • Over 55% of the world’s population lived in urban areas in 2018
  • Demand for goods and services increases
  • Adverse consequences:
    • Traffic congestion
    • Bad air quality
    • Inefficient transport systems
    • Climate change due to human activities
    • Decrease of quality of life
  • Need of Better and Cleaner Cities ->
  • Sustainable Urban Mobility/Logistics Plans

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Aging Population

  • Global life expectancy soared from 34 years in 1913 to 72 years in 2022 and is expected to continue on that long-term trajectory.
  • Between 1970 and 2020, fertility dropped in every country in the world (Bloom 2020).

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International Migration & Digital Nomads

  • Estimated number of international migrants reached 281 million in 2020.
  • Digital Nomads: As of 2023, total of 35 million digital nomads in the world, and 23.2 million of these live in America.
  • 37% increase - 16.9 million workers recorded in 2022. 

Source: https://www.migrationdataportal.org/international-data?i=stock_abs_&t=2020

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Climate Change

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Digitalization: IoT and AI

  • Internet of Things digitizes our world providing
    • Prolific amounts of data
    • Very large samples
    • Dynamic, time series
    • Usually lacking of Socioeconomics
  • New computing methods for analyzing data (machine learning)
  • Challenging our behavioural standard models
  • More energy consumption and emissions from ubiquitously operating vehicles?

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

The European Commission's support for the production of this presentation does not constitute an endorsement of the contents, which reflect the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. 

Athena Tsirimpa

Assistant Professor

The American College of Greece