Advanced Mobility and Transport Engineering

Introduction

Given the constant reshaping of the mobility principles, concepts and individuals’ preferences, the implementation of new services joining the context of intelligent mobility is becoming necessary. This reshaping is meant to address environmental, economic, and social problems and is part of a policy of incentives promoting clean, flexible and less costly modes of transportation. Furthermore, given the extension in distances and the duration of journeys , such services need to ensure full spatiotemporal coverage, attending to urban, peri-urban and extra-urban areas. Thus, besides ensuring continuity and security of all journeys, decreasing budget allocations for transport and combining efficacy with the need for the optimization of travel time, these are among the main objectives of these services. Competitiveness in this field has currently reached its highest peak: systems characterized by monomodality, intermodality, multimodality and recently co-modality, compete fiercely with one another. Therefore, following the example of CISIT — the International Campus on Safety and Intermodality in Transportation — in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, projects have been initiated in order to realize innovative ideas combining intelligence with transport. As for the latter, different systems including transport-on-demand, “eco-sharing” modes, travel assistance have been realized. Moreover, thanks to technological advancements, intelligent transport systems are now beyond the stage of mere ...