What is ISO 37159 - Smart community infrastructure with smart transportation for rapid transit about?
ISO 37159 is an international standard that focuses on smart community infrastructure with smart transportation for rapid transit in and between large city zones and their surrounding areas. ISO 37159 specifies a procedure to organize smart transportation that enables one-day trips by citizens between cities and in a large city zone, including its surrounding areas and conveys many people at a high frequency in a short time over distances of up to 1000 km.
ISO 37159 aims to promote political and economic work and stimulate business activity by providing citizens with a manner of travel to complete a return trip from their home or place of work to destinations outside their cities on the same day. However, this document does not designate a procedure for constructing smart transportation facilities.
Note: “One-day trip” means travel from an origin to a destination and back to the origin on the same day. The purpose of such travel is out of the scope of ISO 37159.
Who is ISO 37159 - Smart community infrastructure with smart transportation for rapid transit for?
ISO 37159 on smart community infrastructure with smart transportation is useful for:
- Private infrastructure companies
- Local government authorities
- Transportation service providers
Why should you use ISO 37159 - Smart community infrastructure with smart transportation for rapid transit?
ISO 37159 describes the performance required for smart transportation to overcome a city issue or how one-day trips can be successfully provided to citizens by transporting many people at a high frequency in a short time for distances of up to 1 000 km between cities located inside or outside a large city zone, including a megalopolis.
ISO 37159 covers the anticipated smart transportation modes for this purpose are highway buses and high-speed rail (HSR). The former can transport people for distances of up to 200 km, the latter for distances of up to 1 000 km for one-day trips. Both transportation modes should be selected according to the distance and required capacity.
ISO 37159 also covers the advantage of using highway buses and HSR for this purpose is to directly connect the city centres in different cities without forcing travellers to change to local services before entering/leaving the city centre.
