Smart Cities, Volume 8, Issue 5

This study investigates how digital infrastructure contributes to smart city performance in emerging economic contexts and whether its impact is shaped by governance models. We estimate the effect of a Digital Technology Index on a composite Smart Ci...

Crisis management in smart cities demands coherent, interoperable, and reusable semantic models to represent complex systems, their risks, crisis situations, interdependencies, and decision-making processes across all lifecycle phases, i.e., preventi...

To address the problem of selecting an “appropriate” charging station for emergency charging during the journey of electric vehicles, this paper proposes a basic architecture of an intelligent charging navigation system composed of the po...

The rise of the smart city reflects a transformative shift in urban development, defined by the integration of advanced technologies and data-driven solutions seeking to address rapid urbanization, environmental externalities, and the ever-increasing...

Global warming and the energy crisis are two significant challenges in the world. The prime sources of greenhouse gas emissions are the transportation and power generation sectors because they rely on fossil fuels. To overcome these problems, the wor...

The accelerating complexity of urban environments has prompted cities to adopt digital technologies that improve efficiency, sustainability, and resilience. Among these, Urban Digital Twins (UDTw) have emerged as transformative tools for real-time re...

Cities face mounting pressures to deliver reliable, low-carbon services amid rapid urbanization and budget constraints. Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning (DL), and the Internet of Things (IoT) are widely promoted to a...

In the 21st century, rapid urbanisation has brought both challenges and opportunities. Smart cities have emerged as innovative solutions to meet the complex demands of urban life. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) serves as the backbone...

Smart and sustainable cities are often assessed using indicator-based models. However, most existing systems evaluate cities as a whole, offering limited support for project-level decision-making, particularly in small and medium-sized cities with sc...

As vehicle-centric perception struggles with occlusion and dense traffic, vehicle-infrastructure cooperative perception (VICP) offers a viable route to extend sensing coverage and robustness. This study proposes a feature-level VICP framework that fu...

Rural communities face persistent transport disadvantages due to low population density, limited-service availability, and high operational costs, restricting access to essential services and exacerbating social inequality. Autonomous public transpor...

Object detection is a critical technology for smart city development. As request volumes surge, inference is increasingly offloaded from centralized clouds to user-proximal edge sites to reduce latency and backhaul traffic. However, heterogeneous wor...

The rapid evolution of 5G New Radio networks has introduced a wide range of services with diverse requirements, complicating their coexistence within the shared radio spectrum and posing challenges in traffic scheduling and resource allocation. This...

The growing need for efficient and sustainable urban water management has accelerated the adoption of smart monitoring infrastructures based on wireless sensor networks (WSNs). This study proposes a connectivity-aware methodology for the optimal depl...

One of the main challenges faced by DC microgrid (DCMG) is their low inertia, which leads to rapid and significant voltage fluctuations during load or generation changes. These fluctuations can negatively impact sensitive loads and protection devices...

Rapid urbanization and the proliferation of heterogeneous urban data have intensified the challenges of semantic interoperability and integrated urban governance. To address this, we propose the Smart City Ontology Framework (SMOF), a standards-drive...

Continuous technological, ecological, and digital transformations reshape urban mobility systems. While sustainable mobility has become a dominant keyword, there are many different approaches and policies to help achieve lasting and properly function...

Urban green spaces are essential for mitigating the heat island effect, supporting ecosystem services, and maintaining biodiversity. The distribution, fragmentation, and connection of the green spaces significantly impact the behavior of species in c...

Against a global backdrop of industrialization and urbanization, precise measurement of multifactor flows and systematic identification of barriers and drivers are critical for optimizing resource allocation in smart regional development. This study...

Today, due to the widening of the wealth gap, the intensification of climate change, and the acceleration of both population growth and population aging, our cities are being tested by multiple economic, environmental, and social challenges, includin...

Climate change and urbanization are intensifying the urban heat island effect and negatively impacting outdoor thermal comfort in cities. Innovative planning strategies are required to design more livable and resilient urban spaces. Building on a sta...

The effective management of smart cities relies on real-time data from urban environments, where Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are critical sensing platforms. However, deploying high-performance detection models on resource-constrained UAVs present...

This study examines the global mobility of researchers in the smart city domain from 2000 to 2020, using inter-country and intercity affiliation data from the Web of Science. Employing network analysis and spatial econometric models, the paper maps t...

Most urban areas have Traffic Management Centers that rely partially on communication with 9-1-1 centers for incident detection. This level of awareness is often lacking for rural interstates spanning several 9-1-1 centers. This paper presents a nove...

Climate change is intensifying the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, threatening the resilience of buildings and urban infrastructure. While technical solutions for climate adaptation in buildings are well documented, their economic v...

A significant portion of home energy consumption is due to concealed faults and the inefficient usage of home appliances, usually because of user ignorance and a lack of proactive maintenance strategies. In this paper, ENACT, a digital-twin-based sys...

Efficient transportation management is essential for the sustainability and safety of modern urban infrastructure. Traditional road inspection and transport management methods are often labor-intensive, time-consuming, and prone to inaccuracies, limi...

Technological advancements are reshaping New Mobility Services (NMS) by enhancing trip planning, booking, and payment processes, while also improving fleet management, infrastructure utilization, and data-driven decision-making. Despite these develop...

With the development of technologies and the growing need for accurate positioning inside buildings, the localization method based on Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) fingerprinting is becoming increasingly popular. Its popularity is explain...

Cities across the globe face a variety of social, economic, and environmental challenges, and building smart city systems has become a popular strategy, through a combination of institutional and organizational systems along with technological innova...

A major challenge for modern transit systems relying on traditional fixed-route designs is providing broad accessibility to users. Flex-route transit can enhance accessibility in low-density areas, since it combines the directness of fixed-route tran...

Multimodal transportation systems, particularly those combining metro and bikesharing, have become central to addressing the first- and last-mile connectivity challenges in urban environments. This study presents a comprehensive data-driven framework...

Spatiotemporal modeling and prediction of road network traffic flow are essential components of intelligent transport systems (ITS), aimed at effectively enhancing road service levels. Sustainable and reliable traffic management in smart cities requi...

Effective speed management at urban entry points is essential for ensuring traffic safety and supporting sustainable mobility in smart cities. This study contributes to urban mobility planning by using a high-fidelity driving simulation to evaluate g...

Parking space shortages are attributed to an increased density of vehicle presence in the urban context, necessitating the implementation of effective parking management strategies, especially in areas where facility expansion is constrained by limit...

Sewer systems are essential for sustainable infrastructure management, influencing environmental, social, and economic aspects. However, sewer network capacity is under significant pressure, with many systems overwhelmed by challenges such as climate...

Smart grids (SGs) are becoming increasingly complex with the integration of communication, protection, and automation technologies. However, this digital transformation has introduced new vulnerabilities, especially false data injection attacks (FDIA...

Traffic congestion remains a major urban challenge, impacting economic productivity, environmental sustainability, and commuter well-being. This systematic review investigates how artificial intelligence (AI) techniques contribute to detecting traffi...

This systematic literature review pioneers the synthesis of cybersecurity challenges for automotive digital twins (DTs), a critical yet underexplored frontier in connected vehicle security. The notion of digital twins, which act as simulated counterp...

Frequent transit services in urban areas have the potential to increase their accessibility to transit-dependent riders and reduce congestion by attracting new ridership through a modal shift. However, bus services operating in mixed traffic face ope...

In response to the urgent global call for “dual carbon” targets, the sustainable transformation of public museums has become a focal issue in both academic research and engineering practice. This study proposes and empirically validates a...