Mobile Magazine November 2021 | Page 74

Paris : Greener and Safer
5G

Paris : Greener and Safer

Paris has committed heavily in the past few years to pedestrianising its streets and improving public transportation . The city is moving to replace its entire fleet of public buses with electric vehicles , and the city ’ s intelligent transportation system has contributed to a 40 % drop in traffic fatalities since 2010 .
of things ( IoT ), big data analytics , and automation are to transform public transportation , they ’ ll need to be underpinned by 5G .
5G Decongestion As researchers Ali Gohar and Gianfranco Nencioni note in their report The Role of 5G Technologies in a Smart City : The Case for Intelligent Transportation System , “ enables a new kind of communication network to connect everyone and everything .” They

“ If the UK is to meet its climate change goals , it needs to deliver emissions reductions that are as big , fast and cheap as possible ”

ANDREA DONÀ CHIEF NETWORK OFFICER , VODAFONE add that 5G ’ s impact on both economies and societies will be “ profound ”, and add that it will be a vital foundation in the creation of the “ Intelligent Transportation System .”
That impact is quantified in a recent report from Vodafone on the impact of 5G and IoT technologies on the UK ’ s net zero targets . “ If the UK is to meet its climate change goals , it needs to deliver emissions reductions that are as big , fast and cheap as possible ,” says
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