ISO 37162:2023

Smart community infrastructures - Smart transportation for newly developing areas

This document specifies a procedure to arrange smart transportation for newly developing areas, including transportation services between the developing area and existing city centres. This document does not designate procedures for constructing smart transportation facilities.

Infrastructures urbaines intelligentes — Transport intelligent pour les territoires en développement

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 09-Nov-2023
• ICS: 03.220.01 - Transport in general
• ICS: 13.020.20 - Environmental economics. Sustainability
• Technical Committee: ISO/TC 268/SC 2 - Sustainable cities and communities - Sustainable mobility and transportation
• Drafting Committee: ISO/TC 268/SC 2 - Sustainable cities and communities - Sustainable mobility and transportation
• Current Stage: 6060 - International Standard published
• Start Date: 10-Nov-2023
• Due Date: 09-Nov-2024
• Completion Date: 10-Nov-2023

Relations

• Revises: ISO 37162:2020 - Smart community infrastructures - Smart transportation for newly developing areas
• Effective Date: 13-May-2023

Overview

ISO 37162:2023 - Smart community infrastructures - Smart transportation for newly developing areas provides a procedural framework to plan and arrange smart transportation services for newly developed districts (also called new towns, satellite towns or bedroom towns). The standard covers passenger transport inside a newly developing area and connections between that area and existing city centres. It does not prescribe construction methods for transport infrastructure; instead it guides selection, installation and operation of transport services to support sustainable, connected communities.

Key topics and requirements

The standard addresses core technical and planning topics for smart transportation in newly developing areas:

• Transportation concept and objectives: defining transport roles inside the area and to/from surrounding regions, aligned with urban planning goals and UN Sustainable Development Goals.
• Transportation modes: guidance on appropriate modes for internal and external services, including BRT (Bus Rapid Transit), LRT (Light Rail Transit), AGT (Automated Guideway Transit) and MRT (Mass Rapid Transit), with strengths and limitations for each.
• Mode selection criteria: factors to evaluate when choosing modes and service types:
  • transportation capacity, service frequency, stop/station spacing
  • geographical applicability and running performance
  • availability of exclusive tracks or lanes and flexibility in track arrangements
  • environmental performance, life-cycle impacts and energy saving
  • coach convenience, safety, emergency measures and on-time operation
  • driverless operation applicability and town attractiveness
• Adoption and installation: procedures for installing smart transportation services consistent with local town planning, geography and financial constraints (e.g., viaducts, at-grade or underground alignments).
• Sustainability and quality: parameters to observe, continuous monitoring and re-optimization of transport conditions to ensure long-term service quality.

Practical applications and users

ISO 37162:2023 is practical for:

• Urban planners and master developers designing newly developing areas or satellite towns.
• Municipal and metropolitan transport authorities planning transit services between new developments and existing city centres.
• Transport consultants and system integrators selecting appropriate modes (BRT/LRT/AGT/MRT) and service patterns.
• Smart city program managers and sustainability officers integrating transport with broader smart community infrastructures.
• Investors and policymakers assessing mode trade-offs (cost, capacity, environmental performance, flexibility).

Benefits include improved passenger mobility, better alignment of transit capacity and frequency with planned population/density, and informed choices about driverless operation, energy efficiency and emergency resilience.

Related standards

• ISO 37154 - Smart community infrastructures - Best practice guidelines for transportation
• ISO 37157 - Smart community infrastructures - Smart transportation for compact cities

Keywords: ISO 37162:2023, smart transportation, newly developing areas, smart community infrastructures, BRT, LRT, AGT, MRT, sustainable mobility, transportation planning, satellite city.

Standards Content (Sample)

INTERNATIONAL ISO
STANDARD 37162
Second edition
2023-11
Smart community infrastructures —
Smart transportation for newly
developing areas
Infrastructures urbaines intelligentes — Transport intelligent pour
les territoires en développement
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Contents Page
Foreword .iv
Introduction .v
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms and definitions . 1
4 Concept of smart transportation for newly developing areas . 1
4.1 General . 1
4.2 Transportation modes for newly developing areas . 2
4.2.1 General . 2
4.2.2 Transportation modes applicable inside newly developing areas . 2
4.2.3 Transportation modes applied between a newly developing area and
regions outside the area . 3
5 Adoption of smart transportation for newly developing areas . 3
5.1 General . 3
5.2 Conditions for transportation mode selection . 3
5.2.1 General . 3
5.2.2 Transportation capacity . 4
5.2.3 Service frequency . 4
5.2.4 Stop/station interval . 4
5.2.5 Geographical applicability . 4
5.2.6 Running performance . 4
5.2.7 Exclusive tracks and/or street lanes . 4
5.2.8 Promotion of environmentally friendly vehicles and life-cycle performance . 4
5.2.9 Coach convenience and safety . 4
5.2.10 Town value and attractiveness . 5
5.2.11 Emergency measures . 5
5.2.12 Energy saving . 5
5.2.13 Driverless operation applicability . 5
5.2.14 On-time operation . 5
5.2.15 Flexibility in track arrangements . 5
5.3 Installation of smart transportation . 5
6 Sustainability in quality of smart transportation for newly developing areas .5
6.1 General . 5
6.2 Parameters to be observed. 6
6.3 Re-optimization of smart transportation conditions . 6
Annex A (informative) Transportation modes used in existing newly developing areas .7
Bibliography .10
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Foreword
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This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition (ISO 37162:2020), of which it constitutes a
minor revision. The changes are as follows:
— names of symbols in the figure keys to Figures A.1 and A.2 have been corrected;
— editorial updates.
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Introduction
Although overall populations in developed countries have started to decrease, many cities are looking
for more space for citizens to reside and locate businesses, and are developing untouched land, since
space for development is limited in existing cities. Developing countries whose population is sharply
increasing are also in the same situation due to these population explosions and the shortage of places
for comfortable city life and effective business expansion.
A newly developing area is a type of district newly planned and developed to achieve such goals where
the land has never been developed but is located within commuting distance of the current main city
centre. Once a typical newly developing area is built up into a small- or medium-sized city near a
metropolis, it is often called a satellite city.
In order to establish a newly developing area, passenger transportation services are indispensable as
an easy means of travel from place to place inside the area and between the area and established cities
nearby. 24-hour transportation plays a key role in supporting the sustainability of a newly developing
area since transportation performance directly creates a strong bond between citizens’ lives and
business activities, i.e. transportation, if suitable, contributes to successful development and fostering
of newly developing areas. The transportation services should therefore be carefully organized.
In most cases, the size of a newly developing area is not huge, but the population itself can be large.
Thus, a relatively high frequency of transportation services rather than a high capacity per service is
required. Transportation services shall be able to accommodate planned passenger numbers in expected
passenger flows. The geographical features of a target site and the characteristics of the town planning
will dictate specific transportation performance. It is not unusual to place newly developing areas in
hilly terrain since easily cultivated land has probably already been used. Financial circumstances are
likely to force transportation routing to take courses that do not require building a tunnel through a
hill but instead lay tracks on hills, even if steep. Flexible track arranging responds to the restrictions
of local policy-oriented conditions by placing ground tracks, underpasses or overpasses, viaducts and
small curves alongside public roads.
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In the development of this document, ISO Guide 82 has been taken into account in addressing
sustainability issues.
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INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO 37162:2023(E)
Smart community infrastructures — Smart transportation
for newly developing areas
1 Scope
This document specifies a procedure to arrange smart transportation for newly developing areas,
including transportation services between the developing area and existing city centres. This document
does not designate procedures for constructing smart transportation facilities.
2 Normative references
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
ISO 37154, Smart community infrastructures — Best practice guidelines for transportation
ISO 37157, Smart community infrastructures — Smart transportation for compact cities
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in ISO 37154 and ISO 37157 and the
following apply.
ISO and IEC maintain terminology databases for use in standardization at the following addresses:
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3.1
newly developing area
area newly planned and developed for city life, including business activities, usually in untouched land,
where public transportation services are required
Note 1 to entry: Newly developing areas are also known as “bedroom towns”, “new towns”, “satellite towns” and
“edge cities” depending on where, when and for what purpose the development is planned.
Note 2 to entry: Newly developing areas can also be urban areas that have been reconverted or reconfigured or
whose population density has suddenly increased as a result of other changes.
3.2
transportation for newly developing areas
services provided for travel inside a newly developing area (3.1), and between it and the surrounding
region, including existing city centres
4 Concept of smart transportation for newly developing areas
4.1 General
A newly developing area is commonly developed in untouched land, but still in a location commutable
to existing city centres. It should have the facilities necessary for city life, including residential places,
business activities, academic services and community organizations. Various needs and demands
normally arise at the planning phase. Smart transportation for newly developing areas generally
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