About 44 million people are being added to Asia's urban population every year, or roughly 120,000 people per day. This rate is expected to persist since 80% of the region's economic growth will be in urban areas. More than ever, there is great impetus to improve mobility and transport in Asia's cities. The latest and other emerging technologies in urban mobility, as well as simulation and satellite mapping, could hold the key to drive change.

In this event on How to Use Technology to Understand Urban Infrastructure and Human Mobility: A Hands-On Guide, Stefan Seer of the Austrian Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and e-GEOS' Domenico Grandoni discussed how new technologies can be deployed to better understand people's movements and travel patterns in and around cities, and how these can assess and inform the design of urban transport infrastructure. 

Mr. Seer also provided a short overview with hands-on examples on the opportunities and limits for assessing human mobility, while Mr. Grandoni presented recent case studies on how satellite image analysis helped ADB staff in planning infrastructure projects for Baku, Peshawar, Suva, and Pohnpei.