The Smart and Sustainable Roads Market in EMEA

This IDC Perspectives analyzes smart and sustainable roads intended not only for the instrumentation of roads with sensors and actuators to enable intelligent traffic management use cases, but also from a wider perspective of enabling innovation through the convergence of multiple industries. "IDC defines smart and sustainable roads as the intelligent use of technology across road design, construction, operation, maintenance, usage, and upgrade and recycle of materials to reduce cost of ownership and increase environmental sustainability across the design, construction, operation, and maintenance life cycle of physical road elements; enhance convenience, affordability, accessibility, safety, and environmental sustainability for the movement of people and goods; and increase prosperity by enabling businesses to profit from new and existing economic activities related to designing, building, operating, maintaining, using, and decommissioning roads," said Massimiliano Claps, research director, IDC Government Insights.