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Smart Cities, Volume 9, Issue 6

2026 June - 17 articles

Cover Story: Urban green spaces play a crucial role in mitigating heat stress, but their benefits are not always equally accessible to all urban residents. In support of UN Sustainable Development Goals 10 and 11, this study introduces a diagnostic framework combining Agent-Based Simulation with Space Syntax to model age-differentiated pedestrian behaviour across three contrasting Italian urban areas: Lambrate (Milan), Bolognina (Bologna), and Ispra. This study brings green space provision, pedestrian demand, and thermal exposure into one analytical framework to reveal hidden inequalities in everyday walkability. The findings suggest that urban inequity arises not from single deficits, but from imbalanced configurations among these dimensions. It offers a transferable and human-centred approach to diagnosing climate-sensitive accessibility. View this paper
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Articles (17)

  • Article
  • Open Access
906 Views
34 Pages

Experimental Verification and Implementation Feasibility Analysis of Remote Smart Meter Error Monitoring System in Smart Cities

  • Julius Šaltanis,
  • Marius Saunoris,
  • Robertas Lukočius,
  • Vytautas Daunoras,
  • Kasparas Zulonas,
  • Stefano Rinaldi and
  • Žilvinas Nakutis

Smart energy meters are widely deployed in modern distribution networks, extending their role beyond revenue billing to real-time monitoring and data-driven smart city applications. However, conventional legal metrology frameworks rely on periodic re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Strategies of Smart Cities, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
789 Views
31 Pages

Accurate solar irradiance forecasting is important for efficient planning of solar energy systems, renewable energy integration, and data-driven energy management in smart cities. This becomes more essential in regions with limited measured data avai...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Strategies of Smart Cities, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
936 Views
25 Pages

Preference-Aware Multimodal Journey Planner: An Optimization Approach for Smart Mobility

  • Bia Mandžuka,
  • Krešimir Vidović,
  • Marko Ševrović and
  • Jasmin Ćelić

This paper examines the role of Multimodal Journey Planners (MJPs) as a link between user-oriented personalization and the broader societal goals of sustainable urban mobility. In smart cities, MJPs may serve as digital decision-support tools that co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Mobility: Linking Research, Regulation, Innovation and Practice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,004 Views
29 Pages

Modern smart cities increasingly depend on resilient and intelligent energy infrastructures to maintain critical urban services during large-scale disturbances and multi-fault conditions. Conventional restoration approaches are often limited by centr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,019 Views
29 Pages

The Mobility Oracle: A Framework for Approximating Human Mobility

  • Ioanna Gogousou,
  • Manuela Canestrini,
  • Negar Alinaghi,
  • Dimitrios Michail and
  • Ioannis Giannopoulos

Urban mobility modeling plays a critical role in understanding transport infrastructure and improving its efficiency and sustainability. While existing tools are effective for modeling, they typically require extensive data acquisition, such as surve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Mobility in Smart Cities: Advancing Accessibility, Efficiency, and Equity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
659 Views
27 Pages

Water-soil gushing caused by tunnel leakage can induce severe ground disturbance and threaten the safety of shield tunnels, yet rapid prediction remains difficult because high-fidelity numerical simulations are computationally expensive. This study d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Leveraging AI and Deep Learning for Smart Cities: Challenges, Opportunities, and Applications to Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,181 Views
17 Pages

Public transport reliability largely determines the performance of smart urban mobility systems, as it directly affects passenger satisfaction and network efficiency. However, the strategic planning of public transport infrastructure is often carried...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Networks for Transport Infrastructure Management and Safety)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,828 Views
26 Pages

Smart City Mobility Readiness in Thailand: A C.A.S.E. Framework Assessment of Connected, Autonomous, Shared, and Electric Transportation

  • Sakgasem Ramingwong,
  • Salinee Santiteerakul,
  • Apichat Sopadang,
  • Korrakot Yaibuathet Tippayawong,
  • Poti Chaopaisarn,
  • Tanyanuparb Anantana and
  • Jutamat Jintana

Smart city development depends on the readiness of Connected, Autonomous, Shared, and Electric (C.A.S.E.) mobility systems to deliver sustainable, data-driven urban transportation. This paper assesses C.A.S.E. mobility readiness in Thailand—Sou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cost-Effective Transportation Planning for Smart Cities, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,418 Views
33 Pages

Urban green spaces play a critical role in mitigating heat stress and enhancing urban livability, in line with the objectives and expectations of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 10 (Reduced Inequalities) and 11 (Sustainable Cities an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Sustainable Cities: Pioneering Novel Frontiers for Green Urban Living)
  • Article
  • Open Access
910 Views
30 Pages

MobiCugat: City-Scale Traffic Assessment Using Low-Emission Zone Camera Data

  • Alberto Bazán-Guillén,
  • Víctor Rubio-Jornet,
  • Mónica Aguilar Igartua,
  • Joaquim Montal,
  • Marta Vives i Pinyol and
  • Albert Muratet i Casadevall

While Low Emission Zone (LEZ) enforcement cameras provide a constant stream of traffic data, such resources remain significantly underexploited for urban mobility planning, as their current application is restricted to enforcing vehicle access regula...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Enabled Sustainable and Resilient Intelligent Transportation Systems for Smart Cities)
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,468 Views
43 Pages

Smart cities increasingly depend on electrical grid infrastructures capable of operating under high levels of digitalization, decentralization, and intelligence while maintaining reliability, security, and governance at the city scale. However, conve...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,253 Views
56 Pages

Much of the research and proposed industrial deployment of Remote Operations (ROs) in support of automated vehicles is founded on the optimistic premise that in-vehicle standby drivers and Safety Officers (SOs) can easily be replaced with ROs, with s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Mobility in Smart Cities: Advancing Accessibility, Efficiency, and Equity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
833 Views
22 Pages

Temperature has a significant impact on the operation and performance of electronic systems. Conventional approaches focus on stabilizing electronic systems to maintain functionality under unfavorable thermal conditions, typically at the expense of i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative IoT Solutions for Sustainable Smart Cities)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,268 Views
41 Pages

A Systematic Review of IoT and Edge Computing Applications for the Monitoring and Control of Renewable Energy Systems in Smart Grid and Smart City Environments

  • Jafar AlQaryouti,
  • Mustafa J. M. Alhamdi,
  • Javad Rahebi,
  • Jose Antonio Ramos-Hernanz and
  • Jose Manuel Lopez-Guede

The growing environmental crisis and rapid urbanization have made the shift to renewable energy systems even more important for smart city development. In today’s cities, such renewable energy sources as solar photovoltaics, wind energy, hybrid...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things, Computing, and Communications Technologies in Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,323 Views
33 Pages

Closed-Loop CPU-Aware Traffic Control for SDN-Enabled 5G/6G Networks in Open vSwitch Dataplanes

  • Stefan Biševac,
  • Živko Bojović,
  • Petar D. Bojović and
  • Ilija Doknić

This paper presents a closed-loop, CPU-aware traffic-control framework for SDN in 5G/6G multi-tenant edge environments based on commodity KVM/OVS infrastructures. It couples fine-grained data-plane telemetry via eBPF with adaptive XDP rate limiting,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative IoT Solutions for Sustainable Smart Cities)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
716 Views
14 Pages

Medical resources are primary public goods, but the nature of their distribution across different-sized cities is unclear. Here, we examined the nonlinear scaling relationship between urban populations and medical resources in China, moving beyond th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in eHealth Technologies for Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
653 Views
23 Pages

Background: Smart-city road and intersection management increasingly aims to smooth bus operations and reduce stop-and-go driving, but cities often lack auditable indicators linking routine fleet data with comparable energy and environmental KPIs. Me...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Paving the Future: Sustainable Road Design and Urban Mobility in Smart Cities, 2nd Edition)
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