2025 June - 30 articles
The development of electric mobility offers new perspectives in the energy sector and improves resource efficiency and sustainability. This paper proposes a new strategy for synchronizing the energy requirements of home, commercial, and vehicle mobil...
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) requires reliable communication and surveillance infrastructures to ensure safe Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operations in dense metropolitan environments. However, urban infrastructure is inherently heterogeneous, leading t...
While digital transformation in e-commerce receives the most publicity, applications in energy and water utilities have been ongoing for decades. Using a methodology based on a systematic review, the paper offers a model of how it occurs in water uti...
Mediterranean island cities face unique challenges in implementing smart city initiatives due to fragmented governance structures, seasonal economic pressures, and evolving societal expectations. This study investigates how strategic aspirations and...
Healthcare expenditures in Australia have grown steadily in recent years, intensifying fiscal pressures and exposing challenges related to unequal resource distribution. While traditional statistical methods struggle to capture complex data relations...
Urban documents like city planning reports and environmental data often feature complex charts and texts that require effective summarization tools, particularly in smart city management systems. These documents increasingly use graphical abstracts a...
Autonomous vehicles are one of the key components of smart mobility that leverage innovative technology to navigate and operate safely in urban environments. Traffic light detection systems, as a key part of autonomous vehicles, play a key role in na...
The adoption of wind energy is pivotal for advancing sustainable power systems, particularly in off-grid microgrids where infrastructure limitations hinder conventional energy solutions. The inherent variability of wind generation, however, challenge...
Intelligent transport systems are essential for urban residents in large cities, facilitating not only vehicular mobility but also the movement of residents. Urban mobility is a significant concern, particularly in the context of the Internet of Thin...
Rapid urban growth and the spread of the concept of smart cities force an increasing need to understand how cities become “smart” and apply their experience where it will best take root. Understanding which experience will be most suitabl...
Climate-induced extreme rainfall events are increasing the intensity and frequency of flash floods, highlighting the urgent need for advanced flood management systems in climate-resilient cities. This study introduces an Intelligent Flood Control Dec...
Effectively managing carbon monoxide (CO) pollution in complex industrial cities like Jubail remains challenging due to the diversity of emission sources and local environmental dynamics. This study analyzes spatiotemporal CO patterns and builds accu...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have emerged to address unique challenges in urban environments. This survey dives into the challenges faced in urban areas and explores how WSN applications can help overcome these obstacles. The diverse applications...
The higher integration of photovoltaic (PV) units is an inevitable component of smart city development. Thanks to smart meter devices that can record the exchange of power between the grid and customers, it is expected that homeowners and businesses...
Accurate and adaptive bus dispatching is vital for medium-sized urban centers, where static schedules often fail to accommodate fluctuating passenger demand. In this work, we propose a dynamic heuristic that integrates machine learning-based demand f...
This paper presents a microsimulation-driven framework to analyze the performance of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) alongside vehicles with human drivers (VHDs), channeled towards assessing project alternatives in road intersection design. T...
The Electric Vehicle Scheduling Problem (E-VSP) addresses the challenge of efficiently assigning predetermined trips to an electric vehicle fleet while accounting for charging infrastructure and battery range constraints. Despite numerous optimisatio...
The rapid adoption of smart technologies is increasingly evident in both personal and business contexts. The ‘post-pandemic’ economic recovery of 2022 and 2023 coincided with a global energy supply shortage driven by heightened energy dem...
Streets, as critical public space nexuses, require synergistic quality–utilization alignment—where quality without use signifies institutional inefficiency, and use without quality denotes operational ineffectiveness. Focusing on high-fre...
High-quality data are foundational to reliable environmental monitoring and urban planning in smart cities, yet challenges like missing values and outliers in air pollution and meteorological time series data are critical barriers. This study develop...
The rapid growth in natural gas consumption by gas-fired generators and the emergence of power-to-hydrogen (P2H) technology have increased the interdependency of natural gas and power systems, presenting new challenges to energy system operators due...
This study develops a comprehensive roadmap for Ecuador’s energy transition using a hybrid governance model that balances top–down and bottom–up approaches. By integrating national directives with local participation, this framework...
Autonomous driving technology is advancing rapidly, driven by integrating advanced intelligent systems. Autonomous vehicles typically follow a modular structure, organized into perception, planning, and control components. Unlike previous surveys, wh...
Smart cities integrate advanced technologies, data-driven decision-making, and interconnected infrastructure to enhance urban living and resource efficiency. Among these, Smart Water Management (SWM) is crucial for optimizing water distribution and r...
The smart-city revolution has been promoted as the next step in urban development, leveraging technology to achieve enhanced development standards amid the increasingly complex challenges of urbanization. However, despite the implementation of more e...
Climate change has emerged as a significant driver of the increasing frequency and severity of power outages. Rising global temperatures place additional stress on electrical grids that must meet substantial electricity demands, while extreme weather...
Personalized urban services are becoming increasingly significant in smart city systems. This shift from intelligent transportation to smart cities broadens the scope of personalized services, encompassing not just travel but a wide range of urban ac...
I conducted an integrative literature review by utilizing theoretical and methodological elements of critical realism (i.e., the distinction between ontology and epistemology) to evaluate the significance of triple-helix intermediaries. This review i...
Intersection sight distance (ISD) requirements, currently designed for driver-operated vehicles (DVs), will be affected once automated vehicles (AVs) enter the driving environment. This paper examines the ISD for intersections with a yield control on...
Rural public transport networks face significant challenges, often characterised by suboptimal service quality. With advancements in technology, various applications have been explored to address these issues. Autonomous Demand-Responsive Transits (A...
