Future Vision For Improving Riyadh City To Become A Smart Mobility City

Abstract

Smart Mobility aims to afford mobility to people in cities and to find advanced and maintainable means of transport, such as the improvement of public transport fuels that are safe for the environment, supported by leading technology and proactive behavior of citizens (Neirotti P., 2012) Riyad city is suffered from traffic congestion, according to The Report 2021 of Ministry of Interior, KSA, the economiccost loss resulting from traffic accidents in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is nearly valued at about 21 billion riyals annually. Thus, implementation of smart mobility relieves to make the movement of goods and people easier, in addition to reduce traffic accidents and their catastrophic consequences and it aims to adoptmeasurements that are able to guarantee traffic safety. The research approach is deductive to improve the situation of the sector of mobility in Riyad city through theuse of real data. This studycomes up with a number of recommendations to achieve smart mobility in Riyadh city. The findings of this study indicated that the mobility system of Riyad is sustainable as a result of therise of smart mobility. On the other hand, the government of Saudi Arabia has already started to performsome projects to achieve smart mobility.