Smart City Playbook

Transport & Mobility

Usecases

Real-Time Responsive City Transport Infrastructure “Mubasher”

“Mubasher”, meaning live in Arabic, is a real-time responsive city transport infrastructure aimed at enabling a safer, more convenient, navigable, and accessible city. By leveraging sensors and video analytics solutions, “Mubasher” captures crowd and traffic movement and provides immediate updated responses to deliver an optimal travel experience. This infrastructure leverages smart light poles, smart traffic lights, and instant signage that detects movement in streets and displays messages accordingly, in addition to analytics-driven insights for transportation systems, metro stations and airport terminals. Hence, “Mubasher” infrastructure will be linked to vehicles and smart phones to notify of any changes and events on road, while reporting to a command center about any potential alerts and issues that must be addressed. Initially, this type of infrastructure is better deployed in congested areas to help manage hot zones and provide a more dynamic and responsive experience to passengers.

KEY

CHALLENGES

General public have limited access to data and information that enable contribution to evidence-based decision-making on transport and mobility issues

Authorities are unable to effectively manage and accommodate the seasonal and continual pedestrian and vehicle traffic across the city

Road accidents and related fatality rates are still on the rise

KEY EXPECTED BENEFITS

Improved Traffic Flow

Vehicles will be continuously fed with recommended speeds by the upcoming traffic lights to minimize stoppages, while emergency lanes will be always cleared

Optimized Transport

Passengers will enjoy public transportation management that is better adapted to their needs due to the visibility of passenger journeys, eventually leading to reduced waiting time and optimal supply of vehicles

Easier Navigation

Passengers will better navigate public and private areas and communicate more effectively with service personnel due to the instant translation of signs

ALIGNMENT TO SMART CITY OBJECTIVES

Responsive

Reliable

TARGET USERS

Mobility Authorities

Mobility Designers

Residents

Elderly & People of Determinations

Tourists

USE CASE

JOURNEY

Omar is a manager within the transportation command center. Omar manages the transportation interactive dashboard, which highlights traffic hot spots, real-time accidents and road issues, and provides traffic management recommendations.

With the transport infrastructure linked to smart phones, the system is able to send messages on any changes and events disturbing traffic flows to drivers registered on the app. It then reports to the command center any potential alert and issue that need to be addressed.

In addition, camera equipped drones and CCTV cameras installed on streets can detect accidents and unusual traffic, sending alerts to configure the stop lights accordingly and determine their necessary wait time as well as any other intervention needed from traffic police.

At around 5 PM, Omar receives an alert about a car pileup on the main highway, and activates the emergency response process, which immediately updates the road signage, sends a request for emergency response and local enforcement teams, and schedules a technician visit to assess the damage to the street or surrounding infrastructure.

POTENTIAL SERVICE FEATURES

Smart light poles

Smart traffic lighting

Real-time instant signage

Movement and anomalies detection

Traffic simulation and road planning application

Planning technician visits

Locating accident hot zones for better emergency response)

Optimization of mobile network capacity

KEY TOUCH POINTS

Web

Traffic Lights

Drones

Design

Technicians

Instant Signage

Implementation
Timeline

Within 6 months

12 – 18 months

Over 24 months

Technology Commercial Viability

Currently commercialized

1 – 3 years to commercialize

5+ years to
commercialize

Regulatory Conduciveness

No New Policies and
Standards

Some Policies &
Standards to be
Introduced

Complex Policies to be
Introduced

Investment Requirement

Low

Medium

High

Use Case Ownership

Government Driven

Piloted by Gov. & Transitioned to Private Sector

Private Sector

Startups & Entrepreneurs

IMPLEMENTATION CONSIDERATIONS

Consolidation of public and private parking inventories

Network and internet connectivity in indoor and underground spaces

Potential installation and integration of supporting infrastructure for outdoor parking spots

POTENTIAL TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

IN THE MARKET

Transport & Mobility

Use Cases

Smart End-to-End Parking Systems

Real-Time Responsive City Transport Infrastructure “Mubasher”

Predictive Road Maintenance

Car-Pooling and Sharing City Platform “Wasilni”

Assistive Technologies for Public Transportation

Driving School
of the Future

Urban Micro-Mobility Solutions Platform “Jawlat Al Madinah”

Move in Al Madinah Companion App

City EV Digital Hub