<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Today the concept of smart cities is discussed in scientific society and politics. A core function of smart cities is transportation. This paper gives a short overview on the concepts for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) for smart cities and proposes a framework for the design of an autonomic transportation system that provides personalized mobility services to its users in a smart city setting. The transportation poses extreme environment for ICT systems due to fast moving vehicles and users, requiring real-time acquisition and high performance processing of large scale data, and rapidly changing communication networks topologies and node densities. The aim of this paper is to propose a framework that will act as a reference for the design of future transportation systems that are able to cope with the ever rising system complexities and users’ demands. Therefore, a backbone system providing information at different levels was designed following the principles of a corporative ICT that were proposed in [1]. The framework fulfills the main requirement providing suitable information about the local decision engines in vehicles and infrastructure interacting in smart cities traffic systems.</p></abstract>

Today the concept of smart cities is discussed in scientific society and politics. A core function of smart cities is transportation. This paper gives a short overview on the concepts for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) for smart cities and proposes a framework for the design of an autonomic transportation system that provides personalized mobility services to its users in a smart city setting. The transportation poses extreme environment for ICT systems due to fast moving vehicles and users, requiring real-time acquisition and high performance processing of large scale data, and rapidly changing communication networks topologies and node densities. The aim of this paper is to propose a framework that will act as a reference for the design of future transportation systems that are able to cope with the ever rising system complexities and users’ demands. Therefore, a backbone system providing information at different levels was designed following the principles of a corporative ICT that were proposed in [1]. The framework fulfills the main requirement providing suitable information about the local decision engines in vehicles and infrastructure interacting in smart cities traffic systems.

Framework for an Autonomic Transport System in Smart Cities

Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany

King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest, Romania

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

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Today the concept of smart cities is discussed in scientific society and politics. A core function of smart cities is transportation. This paper gives a short...

Framework for an Autonomic Transport System in Smart Cities

Data publikacji: 30 kwi 2015

Zakres stron: 50 - 62

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cait-2015-0016

© by Jörn Schlingensiepen

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.