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Smart Cities, Volume 5, Issue 4

2022 December - 30 articles

Cover Story: The Hyperloop system is an emerging transportation mode with the potential to change long-distance commutes. This study aims to investigate the factors impacting users’ preferences towards Hyperloop systems by developing a stated preference study in Germany, in which data were collected for 786 respondents with 5640 scenarios. Models were developed to examine factors impacting the immediate Hyperloop adoption, but also the choice between Hyperloop and other long-distance travel modes, such as airplanes and high-speed trains. Results indicate that mode-related characteristics (travel time, travel cost, safety), individual characteristics, the current satisfaction level with high-speed trains and airplanes, and personality traits are the most significant factors in the choice and early adoption of Hyperloop systems. View this paper
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Articles (30)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,720 Views
18 Pages

19 December 2022

Due to tremendous technological breakthroughs, an increasing number of cities are transforming into “smart cities” utilizing the Internet of Things (IOT), artificial intelligence, or other information technologies. The Chinese government...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,056 Views
35 Pages

The State-of-the-Art of Smart Cities in the European Union

  • Diogo Correia,
  • João Lourenço Marques and
  • Leonor Teixeira

8 December 2022

Today, policymakers struggle to obtain information from specific smart city case studies. The literature lacks a unified view of current initiatives. This paper performs an empirical study with the aim of collecting evidence from the literature about...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,346 Views
24 Pages

Exploring the Market Requirements for Smart and Traditional Ageing Housing Units: A Mixed Methods Approach

  • Rita Yi Man Li,
  • Miao Shi,
  • Derek Asante Abankwa,
  • Yishuang Xu,
  • Amy Richter,
  • Kelvin Tsun Wai Ng and
  • Lingxi Song

5 December 2022

The world’s population is getting older these days. Frailty, a gerontologic health condition associated with ageing, has serious consequences. One crucial remedy for the elderly population is the development of ageing-in-place infrastructures....

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,880 Views
10 Pages

Key Factors for Assessing Small and Rural Municipalities’ Readiness for Smart City Implementation

  • Nkhangweni Lawrence Mashau,
  • Jan Hendrik Kroeze and
  • Grant Royd Howard

2 December 2022

The concept of a ‘smart city’ is now commonly used to describe the use of various digital and other technologies, to collect data to provide information that can be used to manage resources efficiently and provide a better standard of liv...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,824 Views
21 Pages

Thermal Comfort and Energy Efficiency: Challenges, Barriers, and Step towards Sustainability

  • Iasmin Lourenço Niza,
  • Inaiele Mendes da Luz,
  • Ana Maria Bueno and
  • Evandro Eduardo Broday

30 November 2022

With the increasing number of people living in cities, the demand for energy in office buildings and homes is constantly increasing; thus, smart buildings were created to provide users with better comfort conditions. However, using artificial systems...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,785 Views
51 Pages

29 November 2022

Here, we examine the extension of smart retailing from the indoor confines of stores, outward to high streets. We explore how several technologies at the union of retail intelligence and smart city monitoring could coalesce into retail high streets t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,860 Views
15 Pages

28 November 2022

In the present paper, we derive and solve the space-fractional traffic flow model which is considered as a generalization of the transport density equation. Based on the fundamental physical principles on finite-length highway where the number of veh...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,451 Views
20 Pages

23 November 2022

Efficient municipal waste management is one of the key aspects of smart cities. In the literature, modern technological solutions are mainly analyzed in this context on the example of specific case studies. However, the author of this article attempt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,033 Views
24 Pages

18 November 2022

The energy crisis is the foremost concern for the developing world, predominantly in European countries. The global energy demand will increase significantly by 2050, while natural resources dramatically decrease every day. However, net-zero emission...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,962 Views
21 Pages

17 November 2022

This work develops the analysis of power quality by the H-bridge Static Distribution Compensator (DSTATCOM) as well as its control techniques in different industry-based loading conditions. The function of DSTATCOM is to diminish power quality proble...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,572 Views
16 Pages

9 November 2022

Over the last few years, several works have been conducted on the design and development of wireless acoustic sensor networks (WASNs) to monitor acoustic noise levels and create noise maps. The information provided by these WASNs is based on the equi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,063 Views
20 Pages

Hybrid Approach for Developing Strategic ICT Framework for Smart Cities—A Case Study of Dubai’s Toll Gates (Salik)

  • Mahmoud El Hendy,
  • Shadi Atalla,
  • Sami Miniaoui,
  • Mohammad Daradkeh,
  • Wathiq Mansoor and
  • Kamarul Faizal Bin Hashim

7 November 2022

Information and communication technologies (ICT), systems, and people are driving innovative approaches and actions to address issues such as urbanization, demographic change, and carbon footprints of cities. Current research on smart city technologi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,548 Views
18 Pages

2 November 2022

A smart parking system (SPS) is an integral part of smart cities where Internet of Things (IoT) technology provides many innovative urban digital solutions. It offers hassle-free parking convenience to the city dwellers, metering facilities, and a re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,899 Views
28 Pages

Factors Affecting Stakeholder Acceptance of a Malaysian Smart City

  • Qasim Hamakhurshid Hamamurad,
  • Normal Mat Jusoh and
  • Uznir Ujang

27 October 2022

Smart city technology is only considered in some cities depending on the resident requirements, whereas smart initiatives are adopted easily in others. One of the first critical steps toward understanding these aspects of Malaysian smart cities is to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,897 Views
20 Pages

Disentangling Housing Supply to Shift towards Smart Cities: Analysing Theoretical and Empirical Studies

  • Pedro Garcês,
  • Cesaltina Pacheco Pires,
  • Joana Costa,
  • Sílvia Ferreira Jorge,
  • Margarida Catalão-Lopes and
  • Adriana Alventosa

27 October 2022

The search for a pleasant home has concerned people ever since. Paradoxically, people are facing strong difficulties in finding a decent place to settle their lives in cities. As such, the housing market regained momentum in connection with the devel...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
17,865 Views
23 Pages

21 October 2022

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is suffering major delays in construction projects. Because the construction business in Saudi Arabia has changed dramatically over the last three decades, it is crucial to conduct a thorough study into the reasons f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,156 Views
24 Pages

Application of Classic and Novel Metaheuristic Algorithms in a BIM-Based Resource Tradeoff in Dam Projects

  • Milad Baghalzadeh Shishehgarkhaneh,
  • Sina Fard Moradinia,
  • Afram Keivani and
  • Mahdi Azizi

19 October 2022

In recent years, dam construction has become more complex, requiring an effective project management method. Building Information Modeling (BIM) affects how construction projects are planned, designed, executed, and operated. Therefore, reducing exec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,390 Views
20 Pages

Design and Implementation of an Interoperable Architecture for Integrating Building Legacy Systems into Scalable Energy Management Systems

  • Aristotelis Ntafalias,
  • Sotiris Tsakanikas,
  • Spyros Skarvelis-Kazakos,
  • Panagiotis Papadopoulos,
  • Antonio F. Skarmeta-Gómez,
  • Aurora González-Vidal,
  • Valentina Tomat,
  • Alfonso P. Ramallo-González,
  • Rafael Marin-Perez and
  • Maria C. Vlachou

19 October 2022

The building sector is responsible for a significant amount of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Thus, the monitoring, control and optimization of energy consumption in buildings will play a critical role in the coming years in i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,212 Views
12 Pages

19 October 2022

Developing smart cities as a practical component of sustainability is an initiative being promoted worldwide at the international level. The European Union has a strong focus on creating awareness regarding the necessity of new consumption models in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
90 Citations
20,189 Views
20 Pages

Energy and Sustainable Development in Smart Cities: An Overview

  • Mohamed G. Moh Almihat,
  • M. T. E. Kahn,
  • Khaled Aboalez and
  • Ali M. Almaktoof

19 October 2022

Smart cities are an innovative concept for managing metropolitan areas to increase their residents’ sustainability and quality of life. This article examines the management and evolution of energy generation, various storage systems and the app...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,797 Views
13 Pages

14 October 2022

The emergence of smart cities has illuminated positive expectations, such as the solving of urban problems through information and communications technology (ICT). Behind the spotlight of the smart city, not everybody is enjoying the smart infrastruc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
29,429 Views
20 Pages

13 October 2022

The 15-minute-city concept represents an increasingly popular urban policymaking and planning paradigm that seeks to shift attention to the neighborhood as a “place” rather merely a spatial and functional planning unit. The core premise o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,081 Views
20 Pages

User Preferences towards Hyperloop Systems: Initial Insights from Germany

  • Mohamed Abouelela,
  • Christelle Al Haddad,
  • Md Ashraful Islam and
  • Constantinos Antoniou

12 October 2022

The rapidly evolving urbanization is generating unprecedented travel demand, notably in intercity travel. With increasing challenges in motorized traffic, innovative and sustainable transport modes are more than ever necessary. The Hyperloop system i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,432 Views
24 Pages

30 September 2022

The concept of “water smart city” is increasingly being recognized as a new approach to managing urban environments (including urban floods), especially in the context of developing countries, such as Indonesia. While Indonesia’s na...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
29,753 Views
19 Pages

An Intelligent IoT Based Traffic Light Management System: Deep Reinforcement Learning

  • Shima Damadam,
  • Mojtaba Zourbakhsh,
  • Reza Javidan and
  • Azadeh Faroughi

27 September 2022

Traffic is one of the indispensable problems of modern societies, which leads to undesirable consequences such as time wasting and greater possibility of accidents. Adaptive Traffic Signal Control (ATSC), as a key part of Intelligent Transportation S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,751 Views
26 Pages

26 September 2022

Population aging is a global problem affecting many modern economies. Thus, the article attempts to answer the following research questions: What demographic trends characterize cities considered smart, and is the health care offered by these cities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,332 Views
24 Pages

Exploiting User Behavior to Predict Parking Availability through Machine Learning

  • Enrico Bassetti,
  • Andrea Berti,
  • Alba Bisante,
  • Andrea Magnante and
  • Emanuele Panizzi

25 September 2022

Cruising-for-parking in an urban area is a time-consuming and frustrating activity. We present four machine learning-based models to predict the parking availability of street segments in an urban area on a three-level scale, which navigator and smar...

  • Correction
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,410 Views
2 Pages
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,058 Views
12 Pages

The Acceptance and Use Behavior of Shared Mobility Services in a Rural Municipality

  • Cindy Schaefer,
  • Aida Stelter,
  • Sonja Holl-Supra,
  • Stephan Weber and
  • Björn Niehaves

22 September 2022

In rural regions, needs-based mobility services play an important role in the provision of public services. Shared Mobility Services can optimally complement local public transportation such as buses and trains, even in rural regions, and support the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,233 Views
21 Pages

Renewable Energy in Smart Cities: Challenges and Opportunities by the Case Study of Russia

  • Natalia Anatolievna Vukovic and
  • Daria Evgenievna Nekhorosheva

20 September 2022

This study analyzes the development of renewable energy sources and factors affecting the choice of energy source. Also, we focus on the renewable energy programs implemented in the smart cities of the world and apply the prospects of its development...

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