For decades, city authorities in urban centres struggled with a host of ever-growing issues– population growth, congestion, harmful emissions, and urbanisation–each one with its unique challenges and implications for local neighbourhoods, cities and entire regions. 

And for decades, cities have made slow progress in addressing these issues, often because they approached them in a fragmented fashion, with each local authority working in a silo and focusing on its area of jurisdiction.  

Today, to find new solutions to old problems, global cities are increasingly embracing the idea of “digital mobility”–defined by Cubic as the digitization and integration of mobility management and operations systems to achieve larger equity, sustainability and sustainability policy goals.  

Multi-modal transport management sits at the heart of digital mobility, providing a necessary level of operational synergy required to foster collaboration and a shift towards more proactive thinking. As cities consider the next wave of technology investments, they should look to multi-modal transport management solutions to lay the foundation for digital mobility by augmenting and extending the benefits offered by various control systems that today serve as critical components of smart city infrastructure, a multi-modal transport management platform can help cities chart a path towards greater innovation and more effective problem solving, ultimately delivering more choice and better transport for all.