Smart Mobility in Smart Cities: Emerging challenges, recent advances and future directions

Abstract

The world is witnessing a vivid race toward developing advanced solutions to enable smart, fast, affordable and environment friendly mobility for Smart Cities inhabitants. This led to the emergence of the Smart Mobility concept, attracting significant attention from major actors in the mobility sector including policy makers and traffic authorities. Therefore, this survey paper presents an overview of Smart Mobility and discusses the main challenges associated with its key building blocks, parking and traffic management, traffic routing in addition to emissions and road safety implications. Then, the most important works that attempted to address these challenges are presented, and their strengths and limitations are analyzed. Finally, the lessons learned from this study and the most promising future directions to tackle these challenges are presented.

Keywords:

• intelligent transportation systems
• smart cities
• smart mobility
• traffic management system

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

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