What is ISO 37158 - Smart community infrastructure about?
ISO 37158 is an international standard that focuses on smart community infrastructure with smart transportation using battery-powered buses. ISO 37158 specifies a procedure for the introduction of smart transportation to city centres using battery-powered buses. This service contributes to a clean atmosphere and a relatively quiet environment while offering services that provide safe and comfortable rides for citizens.
Who is ISO 37158 - Smart community infrastructure for?
ISO 37158 on smart community infrastructure with smart transportation is useful for:
- Private infrastructure companies
- Local government authorities
- Transportation service providers
Why should you use ISO 37158- Smart community infrastructure?
City centres, often small areas, are frequently congested with internal-combustion-engine-driven vehicles. This creates significant city issues, including air pollution from greenhouse gases (GHGs) and irritation to citizens from noise and vibration. The number of internal-combustion-engine-driven private vehicles nowadays is small. Heavy trucks, which are commonly driven by internal combustion engines, are not allowed in city centres.
Bus transportation systems offer convenient and casual transport for citizens in all cities as they can operate in narrow streets by passenger flow changes in a city and require minimum facilities for bus stops. However, although bus journeys are popular among citizens, the ride comfort is not always of a high quality due to sudden stops to avoid collisions or traffic accidents, and irritating jerky movements caused by the traction mechanism in the internal combustion engine driving systems.
ISO 37158 is promoting modal shifts from conventional to alternative systems, service performance and quality should be maintained or improved, regarding low environmental impact, safe and steady operation, and passenger ride comfort. ISO 37158 covers battery-powered buses that are driven with traction motors run by electricity. Motors can indirectly convert fuel energy into driving forces extremely efficiently by consuming electricity that is generated from fuel by a power plant in a normal way. Thus, motor traction saves energy compared with engine traction, which burns fuel directly.
