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Smart Cities, Volume 4, Issue 2

June 2021 - 25 articles

Cover Story: Smart cities and communities (SCC) constitute a new paradigm in urban development. SCC ideate a data-centered society aimed at improving efficiency by automating and optimizing activities and utilities. Information and communication technology enable data collection and with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) situation awareness can be obtained to feed the SCC actors with enriched knowledge. Though AI technologies provide accurate predictions and classifications, there is an ambiguity regarding the correctness of their outputs. This can make it difficult for the human operator to trust the system. Another challenge related to trust is explainability: models can have difficulty explaining how they came to certain conclusions, so it is difficult for humans to trust them. Once we overcome these challenges, great benefits are anticipated for traffic safety and energy efficiency within SCC. View this paper
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Articles (25)

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,277 Views
16 Pages

This article addresses the challenges and capability gaps confronted by public administrations concerning digital transformation and the use of novel tools in the context of land use, facilities and urban services planning. The present state of plann...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,860 Views
11 Pages

Rider Perceptions of an On-Demand Microtransit Service in Salt Lake County, Utah

  • Gregory S. Macfarlane,
  • Christian Hunter,
  • Austin Martinez and
  • Elizabeth Smith

On-demand microtransit services are frequently seen as an important tool in supporting first and last mile operations surrounding fixed route high frequency transit facilities, but questions remain surrounding who will use these novel services and fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,407 Views
18 Pages

Nowadays, many urban areas are developing projects that are included within the area of smart cities. These systems tend to be highly heterogeneous and involve a large number of different technologies and participants. In general, cities deploy syste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,986 Views
31 Pages

Towards a Digital Ecosystem for a Smart City District: Procedure, Results, and Lessons Learned

  • Frank Elberzhager,
  • Patrick Mennig,
  • Svenja Polst,
  • Simon Scherr and
  • Phil Stüpfert

The digital transformation supports many cities on the way to becoming smarter cities, enabling them to enhance digital processes, care about climate-friendly goals, or improve the quality of life of their citizens. However, such changes usually take...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,284 Views
24 Pages

Under present-day practices, the vehicles on our roadways and city streets are mere spectators that witness traffic-related events without being able to participate in the mitigation of their effect. This paper lays the theoretical foundations of a f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,870 Views
35 Pages

A Comprehensive Framework for Analyzing IoT Platforms: A Smart City Industrial Experience

  • Mahdi Fahmideh,
  • Jun Yan,
  • Jun Shen,
  • Davoud Mougouei,
  • Yanlong Zhai and
  • Aakash Ahmad

28 April 2021

The compliance of IoT platforms to quality is paramount to achieve users’ satisfaction. Currently, we do not have a comprehensive set of guidelines to appraise and select the most suitable IoT platform architectures that meet relevant criteria. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
93 Citations
63,012 Views
20 Pages

Smart Parking Systems: Reviewing the Literature, Architecture and Ways Forward

  • Can Biyik,
  • Zaheer Allam,
  • Gabriele Pieri,
  • Davide Moroni,
  • Muftah O’Fraifer,
  • Eoin O’Connell,
  • Stephan Olariu and
  • Muhammad Khalid

28 April 2021

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come of age, and complex solutions can now be implemented seamlessly within urban governance and management frameworks and processes. For cities, growing rates of car ownership are rendering parking availability a cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,530 Views
19 Pages

Experimentation Platforms as Bridges to Urban Sustainability

  • Sven-Volker Rehm,
  • Shane McLoughlin and
  • Giovanni Maccani

23 April 2021

Despite immense efforts to realize diverse visions of the ‘smart city,’ municipalities still face manifold uncertainties of how governance and the tools of governance can best support public and regional value creation for achieving urban sustainabil...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,753 Views
16 Pages

An Incentive Based Dynamic Ride-Sharing System for Smart Cities

  • Abu Saleh Md Bakibillah,
  • Yi Feng Paw,
  • Md Abdus Samad Kamal,
  • Susilawati Susilawati and
  • Chee Pin Tan

22 April 2021

Connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technology, along with advanced traffic control systems, cannot ensure congestion-free traffic when the number of vehicles exceeds the road capacity. To address this problem, in this paper, we propose a dynamic r...

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