Geospatial Technologies for Urban Mobility: Introduction

Abstract

This chapter gives a broad introduction to the topics in the first part of this book. This first part considers a range of geospatial technologies for smart cities and urban mobility, and demonstrates their potential to shape the future of urban mobility. In this way, the first part prepares the ground, or the framework, for the second part that focuses on technologies for smart parking and specifically on smart parking challenges in the context of cities where private motorization is not yet saturated. Readers who are already familiar with geospatial technologies and are only interested in the parking challenges, can jump ahead to the second part after this introduction.