nonmotorized transportation

Nonmotorized transportation includes pedestrian and human powered transportation modes. These include human powered bicycles and scooters as well as the basic function of walking from origin to destination. It is also called Active Travel in Europe.

There are many aspects where nonmotorized transportation can be improved using smart mobility technologies. These include customize facilities to enable people to walk across roads, near miss detection to improve safety at intersections and sophisticated pedestrian detection and traffic signal timings to create a smoother trip across in urban area for pedestrians.

 Smart mobility really comes into its own as far as pedestrians are concerned when modes are linked together using the connectivity provided by smart mobility. For example, a commuter could walk from home to the nearest micro transit vehicle. The micro transit vehicle could then be used to travel to the nearest bus stop and then left at the bus stop. The commuter that can then take the bus to the nearest bus stop to work and either walk the rest of the way or pick up another micro transit vehicle. In future some of these first and last mile connections could be supported by automated shuttles.