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  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,722 Views
27 Pages

The global trend of urbanization and growing environmental awareness have risen concerns and demands to develop cities to become smarter. There is a grave need for ambitious sustainability strategies and projects, which can aid cities intelligently a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in World Electric Vehicle Journal in 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
413 Views
32 Pages

Smart city mobility systems face a persistent gap between digital innovation and large-scale deployment. While Mobility-as-a-Service platforms and Mobility Living Labs have generated promising local solutions, transferring these solutions across citi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Mobility in Smart Cities: Advancing Accessibility, Efficiency, and Equity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,469 Views
11 Pages

A Smart Airport Mobile Application Concept and Possibilities of Its Use for Predictive Modeling and Analysis

  • Martin Baláž,
  • Kristína Kováčiková,
  • Juraj Vaculík and
  • Martina Kováčiková

The goal of this paper is to propose a smart airport solution, which is customer-oriented and suitable for an airport at the beginning of the process of digitization. Such a solution is represented by a mobile application, which allows the airport to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,865 Views
22 Pages

26 March 2025

In smart cities, bicycle-sharing systems have become essential as last-mile transportation solutions, seamlessly integrating into urban mobility networks worldwide. To improve riding efficiency, the development of automatic gear-shifting systems for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,679 Views
22 Pages

19 August 2024

As urbanization increases, cities face challenges related to sustainability and mobility. This study, conducted through interviews in March and April 2023, investigates the implementation of smart mobility solutions in German-speaking cities (Austria...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,130 Views
25 Pages

Integrating Blockchain Technology into Mobility-as-a-Service Platforms for Smart Cities

  • Radu Miron,
  • Mihai Hulea,
  • Vlad Muresan,
  • Iulia Clitan and
  • Andrei Rusu

As cities evolve into smarter and more connected environments, there is a growing need for innovative solutions to improve urban mobility. This study examines the potential of integrating blockchain technology into passenger transportation systems wi...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
800 Views
7 Pages

The rapid evolution of transportation technologies and the growing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming the landscape of road safety and smart mobility [...]

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Solutions and Technologies for Smart Mobility and Vehicle Safety in Transportation)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,814 Views
32 Pages

A Literature Review on Challenges and Solutions for Smart and Sustainable Urban Mobility

  • Antonio Verde,
  • Miguel Meléndez-Useros and
  • Fernando Viadero-Monasterio

Urban mobility is undergoing a rapid transition driven by digitalization, electrification, and automation. However, current research remains largely fragmented across specific technological domains, obscuring the interactions required for city-scale...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Cities—Urban Planning, Technology and Future Infrastructures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,563 Views
20 Pages

16 February 2023

Smart mobility supports smart city ideas and concepts. A consequences of smart mobility activities are more wide and common using electromobility. There is no doubt that electromobility is a global trend that unequivocally supports the principles of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Challenge for Creating a Smart & Sustainable City through Logistics, Transportation Management, and Tourism Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,351 Views
19 Pages

27 August 2025

The metropolitan agglomeration in and around Bucharest, Romania’s capital and largest city, has experienced significant growth in recent decades, both economically and demographically. With over two million residents in its metropolitan area, B...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Urban Planning and the Digitalization of City Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,160 Views
15 Pages

Revolutionizing Urban Mobility: IoT-Enhanced Autonomous Parking Solutions with Transfer Learning for Smart Cities

  • Qaiser Abbas,
  • Gulzar Ahmad,
  • Tahir Alyas,
  • Turki Alghamdi,
  • Yazed Alsaawy and
  • Ali Alzahrani

27 October 2023

Smart cities have emerged as a specialized domain encompassing various technologies, transitioning from civil engineering to technology-driven solutions. The accelerated development of technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), software-defi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-IoT for New Challenges in Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,713 Views
36 Pages

2 July 2024

Car-sharing services, which provide short-term vehicle rentals in urban centers, are rapidly expanding globally but also face numerous challenges. A significant challenge is the effective management of fleet selection to meet user expectations. Addre...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart Urban Mobility, Transport, and Logistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,053 Views
28 Pages

7 August 2023

Undertaking various activities aimed at sustainable development, especially energy conservation, is becoming one of the challenges of modern economies, including developing urban areas. One of the most widely promoted activities is designing and impl...

(This article belongs to the Section G1: Smart Cities and Urban Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,399 Views
18 Pages

3 March 2026

Due to environmental challenges, the global luxury hospitality industry faces increasing pressure to reduce its consumption of natural resources while maintaining service quality. In this paper a conceptual study is conducted to identify three primar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transitioning to Sustainable Energy: Opportunities and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
11,448 Views
22 Pages

An IoT-Based Mobile System for Safety Monitoring of Lone Workers

  • Pietro Battistoni,
  • Monica Sebillo and
  • Giuliana Vitiello

3 August 2021

The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work considers Smart Personal Protective Equipment as “Intelligent Protection For The Future”. It mainly consists of electronic components that collect data about their use, the workers who wear them, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,039 Views
21 Pages

23 December 2022

This article focuses on residents’ perception of smart and sustainable transport in the city, and on local and central government policy towards sustainable and smart mobility transition, using Lodz, a city in Poland, as an example. Its purpose...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Challenge for Creating a Smart & Sustainable City through Logistics, Transportation Management, and Tourism Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,875 Views
15 Pages

Urban logistics are facing growing sustainability challenges, particularly in last-mile delivery operations, which contribute significantly to traffic congestion, emissions and operational inefficiencies. The COVID-19 pandemic further exposed the vul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,896 Views
23 Pages

13 April 2019

Studies on the end group stability of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) during the atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) process are presented. Polymerization of N-isopropylacrylamide was conducted in different solvents using a copper(I) chloride/Me6...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
9,499 Views
27 Pages

23 August 2019

Currently, remarkable gaps of operational, social and environmental efficiency and overall sub-optimization of the logistics and mobility systems exist in urban areas. There is then the need to promote and assess innovative transport solutions and po...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Cities, City Dashboards, Planning and Evaluation of Urban Performances)
  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,539 Views
20 Pages

23 December 2022

Emerging smart mobility concepts suggest solutions for more effective and environmentally friendly transportation. Given their importance in enabling smart mobility, road infrastructure networks have received limited attention. Questions concerning t...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,150 Views
24 Pages

21 November 2019

Existing mobility solutions are criticized for falling short of effectively addressing transport issues and sustainability challenges. In this light, smart mobility has received increasing attention. In the Netherlands, the smart mobility concept tri...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Review
  • Open Access
358 Citations
37,006 Views
41 Pages

Enabling Technologies for Urban Smart Mobility: Recent Trends, Opportunities and Challenges

  • Sara Paiva,
  • Mohd Abdul Ahad,
  • Gautami Tripathi,
  • Noushaba Feroz and
  • Gabriella Casalino

18 March 2021

The increasing population across the globe makes it essential to link smart and sustainable city planning with the logistics of transporting people and goods, which will significantly contribute to how societies will face mobility in the coming years...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,755 Views
53 Pages

29 October 2024

The urban landscape of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, faces significant mobility challenges, primarily stemming from rapid urbanization, overpopulation, and outdated infrastructure. These challenges necessitate the exploration of modern smar...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,250 Views
18 Pages

30 April 2024

The main purpose of this article is to identify and classify smart and sustainable urban mobility solutions in the context of three narratives for sustainable mobility: electromobility, collective transport 2.0 and low-mobility societies. The researc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Energy Transition in Transport and Logistics in Modern, Low-Emission, Smart and Sustainable Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
8,915 Views
30 Pages

24 June 2022

Smart sustainable cities represent a great challenge for the modern world. Generation Z (Gen Z), whose representatives are now entering adult life, will play a key role in the implementation of this concept. The purpose of this study is to investigat...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,630 Views
19 Pages

Innovative Transitions: Exploring Demand for Smart City Development in Novi Sad as a European Capital of Culture

  • Minja Bolesnikov,
  • Mario Silić,
  • Dario Silić,
  • Boris Dumnić,
  • Jelena Ćulibrk,
  • Maja Petrović and
  • Tamara Gajić

15 November 2024

This study investigates the factors influencing the acceptance and implementation of smart city solutions, with a particular focus on smart mobility and digital services in Novi Sad, one of the leading urban centers in Serbia. Employing a quantitativ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Methods for Human-Computer Interaction)
  • Review
  • Open Access
76 Citations
10,855 Views
20 Pages

Smart Mobility Adoption: A Review of the Literature

  • Can Bıyık,
  • Ahmad Abareshi,
  • Alexander Paz,
  • Rosa Arce Ruiz,
  • Rosaria Battarra,
  • Christopher D. F. Rogers and
  • Carmen Lizarraga

Traffic congestion and air pollution continue to be serious concerns, especially in large cities, and going forward, this is not sustainable. Urban transport around the world is facing challenges, such as air pollution and inefficient use of resource...

  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
8,835 Views
19 Pages

Smart-Mobility Services for Climate Mitigation in Urban Areas: Case Studies of Baltic Countries and Germany

  • Gabriele Cepeliauskaite,
  • Benno Keppner,
  • Zivile Simkute,
  • Zaneta Stasiskiene,
  • Leon Leuser,
  • Ieva Kalnina,
  • Nika Kotovica,
  • Jānis Andiņš and
  • Marek Muiste

7 April 2021

The transport sector is one of the largest contributors of CO2 emissions and other greenhouse gases. In order to achieve the Paris goal of decreasing the global average temperature by 2 °C, urgent and transformative actions in urban mobility are requ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
14,651 Views
19 Pages

9 February 2023

Smart mobility systems offers solutions for traffic congestion, transport management, emergency, and road safety. However, the success of smart mobility lies in the availability of intelligent transportation infrastructure. This paper studied smart m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable, Resilient and Smart Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,888 Views
19 Pages

28 October 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic seems to be entering its final stage. However, to restore normal life, the applications of smart technologies are still necessary. Therefore, this research is dedicated to exploring the applications of smart technologies that ca...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Technology to Control the COVID-19 Epidemic Infection: Issues, Successes and Failures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,583 Views
17 Pages

Mobility Support 5G Architecture with Real-Time Routing for Sustainable Smart Cities

  • Amjad Rehman,
  • Khalid Haseeb,
  • Tanzila Saba,
  • Jaime Lloret and
  • Zara Ahmed

13 August 2021

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging technology and provides connectivity among physical objects with the support of 5G communication. In recent decades, there have been a lot of applications based on IoT technology for the sustainability of s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,287 Views
19 Pages

GreenLab, an IoT-Based Small-Scale Smart Greenhouse

  • Cristian Volosciuc,
  • Răzvan Bogdan,
  • Bianca Blajovan,
  • Cristina Stângaciu and
  • Marius Marcu

In an era of connectivity, the Internet of Things introduces smart solutions for smart and sustainable agriculture, bringing alternatives to overcome the food crisis. Among these solutions, smart greenhouses support crop and vegetable agriculture reg...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT): Trends and Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
37,048 Views
21 Pages

IoT Smart Parking System Based on the Visual-Aided Smart Vehicle Presence Sensor: SPIN-V

  • Luis F. Luque-Vega,
  • David A. Michel-Torres,
  • Emmanuel Lopez-Neri,
  • Miriam A. Carlos-Mancilla and
  • Luis E. González-Jiménez

8 March 2020

Humanity is currently experiencing one of the short periods of transition thanks to novel sensing solutions for smart cities that bring the future to today. Overpopulation of cities demands the development of solid strategic plannings that uses infra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Societal Automation)
  • Review
  • Open Access
92 Citations
16,525 Views
40 Pages

10 September 2020

Transportation disadvantage is about the difficulty accessing mobility services required to complete activities associated with employment, shopping, business, essential needs, and recreation. Technological innovations in the field of smart mobility...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue CITIES: Energetic Efficiency, Sustainability; Infrastructures, Energy and the Environment; Mobility and IoT; Governance and Citizenship)
  • Review
  • Open Access
253 Citations
55,169 Views
44 Pages

10 June 2024

As urbanization continues to pose new challenges for cities around the world, the concept of smart cities is a promising solution, with artificial intelligence (AI) playing a central role in this transformation. This paper presents a literature revie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multidisciplinary Research on Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
9,252 Views
25 Pages

The evolution of Mobile Networks and Internet of Things (IoT) architectures allows one to rethink the way smart cities infrastructures are designed and managed, and solve a number of problems in terms of human mobility. The territories that adopt the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges for the Development of Sustainable Smart Cities)
  • Review
  • Open Access
40 Citations
11,493 Views
23 Pages

Smart Mobility in Urban Areas: A Bibliometric Review and Research Agenda

  • Douglas Mitieka,
  • Rose Luke,
  • Hossana Twinomurinzi and
  • Joash Mageto

17 April 2023

Transportation systems globally face challenges related to congestion, decreased quality of life, limited accessibility, increased harmful emissions and costs, growing use of private cars and in some cases lack of intra and intermodal integration. Sm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,921 Views
16 Pages

Urban Development and Sustainable Utilization: Challenges and Solutions

  • Fahad K. Alqahtani,
  • Ahmed R. El Qasaby and
  • Ibrahim S. Abotaleb

15 July 2021

Many countries are contemplating a smart sustainable approach to the next generation of cities. However, there are many obstacles to achieve this objective, such as planning and implementing sustainable dimensions. The aim of this study is to (1) inv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,880 Views
14 Pages

Smart Urban Mobility System Evaluation Model Adaptation to Vilnius, Montreal and Weimar Cities

  • Simona Zapolskytė,
  • Martin Trépanier,
  • Marija Burinskienė and
  • Oksana Survilė

10 January 2022

To date, there is no developed and validated way to assess urban smartness. When evaluating smart city mobility systems, different authors distinguish different indicators. After analysing the evaluation indicators of the transport system presented i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Cities 3.0: Citizens, Space and Sustainable Mobility for the Future City)
  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
19,851 Views
21 Pages

7 June 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has put lifestyles in question, changed daily routines, and limited citizen freedoms that seemed inalienable before. A human activity that has been greatly affected since the beginning of the health crisis is mobility. Focusing...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,069 Views
23 Pages

17 February 2021

Smart cities offer solutions to environmental, economic, and societal problems in urban agglomerations. We investigate the potential for mutual learning in smart city implementation by comparing German approaches (smaller, local projects) to projects...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Viewpoint
  • Open Access
92 Citations
13,012 Views
17 Pages

Cities have started to restructure themselves into ‘smart cities’ to address the challenges of the 21st Century—such as climate change, sustainable development, and digital disruption. One of the major obstacles to success for a sma...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Second IT Revolution and Dynamic Open Innovation: From Smart City, Autonomous Car, Intelligent Robot, and Block Chain to Sharing Economy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,982 Views
34 Pages

Smart mobility is widely promoted as a solution to urban congestion, pollution, and inefficiency. Yet, its adoption remains inconsistent, particularly in developing and small cities. While prior research has examined technological enablers, the struc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,951 Views
19 Pages

Smart Mobility in Metro Manila: Evaluating Readiness and Potential Through a Tailored Index

  • Jemima Ann Ebin Ado,
  • Lucas Louis Belliard,
  • Naohiro Kitano and
  • Akinori Morimoto

This study develops a Smart Mobility Index (SMI) tailored to the 17 Local Government Units (LGUs) of Metro Manila to evaluate their readiness to adopt integrated, efficient, and technology-enabled mobility systems. While global smart mobility indices...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,297 Views
25 Pages

Smart Cities: Data-Driven Solutions to Understand Disruptive Problems in Transportation—The Lisbon Case Study

  • Vitória Albuquerque,
  • Ana Oliveira,
  • Jorge Lourenço Barbosa,
  • Rui Simão Rodrigues,
  • Francisco Andrade,
  • Miguel Sales Dias and
  • João Carlos Ferreira

24 May 2021

Transportation data in a smart city environment is increasingly becoming available. This data availability allows building smart solutions that are viewed as meaningful by both city residents and city management authorities. Our research work was bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,501 Views
19 Pages

27 February 2022

The smart city presupposes the integration of different parts—Smart Economy, Smart Environment, Smart People, Smart Living, Smart Mobility, and Smart Governance. The integration assumes the certain relations between them. There are researches c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,106 Views
22 Pages

Smart Cities’ Applications to Facilitate the Mobility of Older Adults: A Systematic Review of the Literature

  • Nelson Pacheco Rocha,
  • Rute Bastardo,
  • João Pavão,
  • Gonçalo Santinha,
  • Mário Rodrigues,
  • Carlos Rodrigues,
  • Alexandra Queirós and
  • Ana Dias

11 July 2021

This study aimed to identify: (i) the relevant applications based on information technologies and requiring smart cities’ infrastructure to facilitate the mobility of older adults in URBAN SPACES; (ii) the type of data being used by the proposed appl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue CITIES: Energetic Efficiency, Sustainability; Infrastructures, Energy and the Environment; Mobility and IoT; Governance and Citizenship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,725 Views
21 Pages

Visual Aid Systems from Smart City to Improve the Life of People with Low Vision

  • Mirela Gabriela Apostoaie,
  • Mihaela Baritz,
  • Angela Repanovici,
  • Daniela Mariana Barbu,
  • Alexandra Maria Lazăr and
  • Gyury Bodi

19 April 2023

In the current time, the development of urban centers is a very complex process in terms of new residential or administrative building locations expansion, but also in terms of design and/or the combination of the constructions with the environment....

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,555 Views
13 Pages

Proximity Approach to Bluetooth Low Energy-Based Localization in Tunnels

  • Jiří Brož,
  • Tomáš Tichý,
  • Radovan Prokeš,
  • Adam Štencek and
  • Tomáš Šmerda

16 February 2023

Smart cities and smart mobility necessitate the development of newly adapted approaches and applications that ensure data connection among their particular parts; thus, the complex systems of smart technologies can be applied. Especially in the field...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,945 Views
8 Pages

MUSA–I. towards New Social Tools for Advanced Multi-Modal Transportation in Smart Cities

  • Víctor Manuel Padrón Nápoles,
  • Manuel de Buenaga Rodríguez,
  • Diego Gachet Páez,
  • José Luis Esteban Penelas,
  • Alba Gutiérrez García-Ochoa and
  • Alfonso López Pérez

19 October 2018

Urban mobility optimization problem has a great focus in the context of Smart cities. To its solution a very important factor is the transport demand, which is mostly inferred using Big Data and Artificial Intelligence techniques from Automatic Fare...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of UCAmI 2018)

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