Review of Indian Smart Cities Project: Surat

Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is often suggested as the tool for achieving the sustainable mobility and especially, increasing the share of public transport in cities. Mobility as a Service is a paradigm shift in the transport space. The benefits of the mobility as a service includes easy route planning, simplified payments and fully personalized service that builds relationships between the users and the transport provider. The Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) used various smart tools such as Intelligent Transport Management System (ITMS), Automatic Fare Collection System (AFCS), Surat money card and Intelligent Traffic Control System to bring out efficiency in public transport. Surat Municipal Corporation using these smart tools integrated various forms of transport service and tried to bring into a single platform. This case study focuses on the analysing the efficiency provided by ITMS, AFCS and Surat Money card in the public transportation