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A NEW AGE OF TRANSPORTATION Alaa Elshimy, Alaa Elshimy, MD & SVP, Huawei Enterprise Business Group, Middle East explains how smart technology will keep cities moving well into the future.
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Underground and New York City Subway at rush hour, or trying to hail a taxi cab during peak hours. Cities are crowded with people eager to get where they need to be, and with most of us working similar schedules, we’re typically all trying to get places at the same times of day, leading to congestion, frustrations, and possibly even road accidents. If it seems bad today, imagine
digitally-enabled
what your commute will be like in
world means more
10 years or so, when the world’s
than connecting
population has grown by around
people via 5G; it
a billion people and an estimated
means providing convenient
seven billion people will live in
new ways to enhance the
cities around the world...
world around us, such as by
38
city highways; the London
Smart technology is
using technology to augment
essential in order to keep
transportation systems and
cities moving well into the
traffic networks to increase
future. Digital transformation
reliability, efficiency, safety,
of the transportation sector,
and environmental friendliness.
via robust communications
Physical infrastructure stands to
solutions and solid networks,
benefit from digital development
will enable the sector to evolve
as much as anything else, and
in sync with the city around it.
society can only gain when
After all, a smart city cannot
transportation is empowered by
fully thrive or realise its true
smart technology.
potential if its transportation
Anyone who has lived in a major city will have likely
network remains unevolved. But even more than enabling
experienced the ups and downs
people to move seamlessly from
of commuting. Whether by road,
A to B, a smart transportation
bus, train, metro, or any other form of transportation, the fact is that urban residents need reliable, seamless
system has the potential to improve quality of life, too. For one, fewer traffic jams should lead to less road rage and lower
ways to traverse the
stress levels amongst drivers
city – but there are
and passengers. Studies have
nearly always pitfalls
found that adding just 20
in today’s congested environments. Picture
Alaa Elshimy MD & SVP, Huawei Enterprise Business Group, Middle East
MAY 2020
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