Big Data Analytics in Smart Cities

Dear Colleagues,

The integration of Big Data analytics into the fabric of urban environments is directing cities towards advanced technologies to enhance efficiency, sustainability, and overall quality of life in the continually evolving urbanization landscape. As our cities become "smart", harnessing the power of extensive datasets becomes increasingly imperative for informed decision making and effective resource management.

Big Data analytics in Smart Cities represents a paradigm shift in how urban planners, policymakers, and technology experts approach the challenges of modern urban living. Cities, leveraging the data richness generated by various urban systems, unlock invaluable insights, promising to optimize city functions, alleviate challenges, and ultimately create more livable, resilient, and sustainable urban areas.

In the context of Smart Cities, Big Data analytics has acquired a versatile, in-depth understanding. It shapes the transformative potential of data for tomorrow’s cities, influencing real-time data usage for traffic management, predictive analytics for resource allocation, and more, spanning areas such as security, energy transmission, regional governance, and beyond. Technology, data, and urban intelligence engage in a complex interplay that shapes the cities of the future.

We invite original research articles and reviews to be submitted to this Special Issue. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Autonomous/electric vehicles
• Electric vehicle charging station location planning
• Smart City applications
• Statistics and mathematics
• Crowdsensing
• Game theory
• Agent based modeling
• Engineering/traffic Systems
• Computer and computational sciences
• Electrical, electronic, and automation systems
• Aviation and drone technologies
• Energy systems
• Social media

Dr. Tahir Cetin Akinci
Dr. Mustafa Akbas
Dr. Maurizio Vincini
Guest Editors

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• smart cities
• Big Data
• AI-based data processing
• transportation
• energy
• environment
• health
• social media