Telematics in sustainability of urban mobility. European perspective

Development of widely understood information and communication technologies influence virtually all aspects of life, including transportation behaviours. Increase of urbanised population in the European Union, along with concentration of economic activity in urban areas pose new challenges in the area of policy planning for city transport and urban mobility. Despite existing expectation that an increase in Internet-based communication will reduce the need to travel, the amount of city traffic actually increases. The concept of sustainable urban mobility is a relatively recent one, particularly visible in the European Union’s documents that are concerned with modelling city transport systems in concert with rules of sustainable development. The goal of this paper is to show how telematics can influence the implementation of the requirements of the concept of sustainable urban mobility.