Track: Smart Mobility and Smart Cities

Abstract

Transport planning is a challenging topic to be addressed in urban areas in order to create sustainable cities, due to the adverse health effects, noise and congestions generated by the transport sector. Therefore, policymakers require technical tools that allow to take regulatory transport decisions, considering environmental and health impacts. This work presents the development of an integrated and comprehensive tool to assess urban mobility strategies called MAITec. The methodology includes the implementation and application of specialized software to estimate health impact by transport emissions. The tool was implemented in a university district in Mexico. Results indicate that in the base scenario, people are exposed to high pollutant concentrations in some sectors of the district, where traffic pollution claims approximately 9 lives every two years. MAITec was implemented in a free online platform and shared with local governments for its application.