ABSTRACT
Telecommunications are radically transforming the management and provision of urban transportation and infrastructure networks. Old ideas about the role of monopolistic, standardised and universally available infrastructure networks available to meet all demands for movement, mobility, heat, power and water supply are being challenged. Increasingly telecommunications are supporting the splintering of infrastructure services to facilitate competition on what were previously considered to be monopolistic networks. Telecommunications enable infrastructure providers more effectively to control their networks by identifying the costs of servicing different types of customers. At the same time these capabilities provide the opportunity of providing premium, enhanced and value added services to particular groups of customers.
