Mobility, City Logistics And Security In Smart Cities

Freight and people mobility plays a relevant role in denition of life quality level in urban areas. In this context great relevance has to be given to planning, management and control of integrated urban transportation systems, which have to be economically ecient and environment compatible, to guarantee high quality level of freight and people mobility and a sustainable development of the city. Urban security problem is strictly linked to mobility. In fact it comprehends many critical events (environmental pollution, natural disasters, industrial ac- cidents, terrorist attacks) which strongly aect urban life and require planning, management and control of transportation network. The intersection between the two themes is broad. Urban trac contributes to increase pollution and causes sometimes pandemic pathologies. Extreme weather, natural disasters, industrial accidents strongly aect mobility and network performance in terms of travel time and security. Transportation of obnoxious freight requires a specic network management. The risk of terrorist attack requires network control which in uences people and freight mobility. In both cases decision and optimization problems have to be dened and solved, requiring appropriate mathematical and computer science instruments for network representation and simulation. For urban mobility particular interest has to be devoted to the determination of od pattern on links of the network, structure of the network, facility location in the nodes and determination of the paths for the routing of people and freight flows . For urban security, instead, particular interest has to be devoted to the identication of the area to be protected and of the critical points of the network, to location of check points , planning of reliable systems with respect to all the possible attack scenarios directed against the network, determination of evacuation paths from places which could be target of an attack.