Innovation in Smart Mobility and Smart City

The project Borgo 4.0 aims to transform Upper Irpinia into an advanced smart mobility and smart city laboratory. Sponsored and coordinated by ANFIA, involves 54 companies collaborating to develop cutting-edge solutions in the area of smart and sustainable mobility.Among the most innovative initiatives is the Virgil Project, which serves as a Smart City control room, a significant step forward in smart urban mobility management. This project aims to make urban mobility more fluid and interactive, promoting solutions related to the green economy and creating a virtuous circuit of information exchange between the community and the municipal government.

SITUATION AWARENESS

Virgil serves as a control center for intelligent urban mobility management, monitoring and controlling the traffic situation and urban events in real time.

ADVACED DATA ANALYTICS

Virgil, with the help of Artificial Intelligence, implements advanced data analysis and visualization techniques to provide a detailed and concise view of the state of urban services, supporting informed decisions and improving road safety.

SEAMLESS C-ITS

Virgil uses the Cooperative Intelligent Transport System (C-ITS) paradigm to ensure interoperability and information exchange among various heterogeneous systems.

The Role of System Management

System Management S.p.A. is responsible for the development of some components of the Virgilio platform. These components are based on an ecosystem of applications using the Cooperative Intelligent Transport System ( C-ITS ) paradigm. Virgil enables the management, monitoring and control of messages from the field regarding location, statuses and urban mobility events, ensuring interoperability and information exchange among various heterogeneous systems.

System management objectives are:

• Control Room System: Implementation of a supervisory platform that integrates data and information from various systems, using advanced data presentation techniques to provide a concise and detailed view of the status of city services.

• Massive Data Analysis System: Development of an advanced system for the analysis and processing of large volumes of data.

• Lioni Smart City mobile app: Creation of a mobile application that uses data to provide real-time information on traffic, charging services, parking, and pollution levels.

Key Components of the Virgil Project

• Control Room: Provides an urban Situation Awareness map to enable municipal workers to monitor and manage traffic in real time.

• On-Boarding-Unit (OBU): Mobile devices installed on smart vehicles, bicycles, and public transportation that collect and transmit real-time data on urban mobility.

• Personal-OBU: Allows citizens to become active participants in the traffic management system, improving the safety and efficiency of urban mobility.

• Simulation-as-a-Service: Simulator that enables “What-If” traffic scenarios to support decision making, helping to plan infrastructure interventions and improvements.

• Lioni Smart City App: Mobile app that provides information on traffic, charging services, parking, and pollution levels.

Virgil: Innovation Scenarios for Lioni.

The Virgil system offers numerous benefits, including more efficient traffic management, increased road safety, and reduced environmental impact. Smart City innovation scenarios include:

• Informed Decisions: Municipal operators, through advanced Data Visualization techniques and Traffic Prediction algorithms, can have an urban “Situational Awareness Map.”

• Sustainable Mobility: By promoting the use of electric vehicles and shared transportation solutions, Virgil is helping to reduce CO2 emissions and improve air quality.

• Self-Driving Vehicles: The integration of autonomous vehicles into the urban mobility system is another step toward innovation. The goal is to improve traffic efficiency by reducing the risk of accidents.

• Citizen Involvement: Empowering citizens to actively contribute to the traffic management system creates a more participatory and aware community.

The Virgil Project, as part of Borgo 4.0, represents a user-centric smart city and smart mobility model. Aims to create a smart-community of digital citizens, improving quality of life and promoting urban sustainability.

Funded Project

The VIRGILIO project is within the framework of the “Sustainable and Safe Mobility” program referred to in DD no. 320/2019 promoted by the Campania Region (Unique Project Code: B32C18000290007). In the context of different projects that implement solutions to support and innovate sustainable and safe mobility is the VIRGILIO project initiative, which was implemented based on the synergy between partner companies and RODs. Internally, System Management S.p.A. stands as the lead company as well as the scientific leader of the activities and innovation trajectories with respect to the project’s intended objectives. The work carried out by System Management, within the VIRGILIO project, in order to realize an innovative solution, is through the implementation of a platform for the control, monitoring and management, of a smart-city with a special emphasis on the dimensions of urban traffic and mobility.

Start date: 01/07/2020 – End date: ongoing