Current weather information is one of the facilities supplied to the users by most travel and
mobility systems. Most of them relies on one provider, who can deliver a more or less …

The technological revolution that has taken place in recent decades, driven by advances
and developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has …

Rural and urban areas are linked. A basic definition of rural-urban linkages is that they
consist of flows (of goods, people, information, finance, waste, information, social relations) …

The world is moving toward a new connected world in which millions of intelligent
processing devices communicate with each other to provide services in transportation …

This paper presents an open architecture testbed for smart cities, called OpenCity, which is
hosted at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). The OpenCity platform consists of data …

The current economic crisis, combined with growing citizen expectations, is placing
increasing pressure on European cities to provide better and more efficient infrastructures …

Nowadays the smart-city concept is shifting from a top-down, mere technological approach
towards bottom-up processes that are based on the participation of creative citizens …

Software development for smart cities bring into light new concerns, such as how to deal
with scalability, heterogeneity (sensors, actuators, high performance computing devices …

Cities are producing and collecting massive amount of data from various sources such as
transportation network, energy sector, smart homes, tax records, surveys, mobile phones …

Smart City concept is being adopted by many governments to implement sustainable
solutions and improve the quality of life of the citizens. This paper presents a data oriented …