This paper presents an ethical framework for Big Data and Smart cities, focusing on contemporary non-ethical issues in big data analytics applications smart cities public transportation systems. The provides reviews analysis of emerging a summary recommendations discussions four areas. By reviewing recent studies both the technological development problems industries, this seeks to find raise a...

Data will soon become one of the most precious treasures we have ever had, 43 TRILLION GIGABYTES of data will be created by 2020 according to a study made by Mckinsey Global Institute, it’s estimated that 2.3 TRILLION GIGABYTES of data is created each day and most companies in the US have 100.000 GIGABYTES of data stored. Data is recorded, stored and analyzed to enable technology and services t...

New, “big data” sources allow measurement of city characteristics and outcome variables at higher collection frequencies and more granular geographic scales than ever before. However, big data will not solve large urban social science questions on its own. Big urban data has the most value for the study of cities when it allows measurement of the previously opaque, or when it can be coupled wit...

BACKGROUND One of the main indexes of development is health index or the degree to which a society enjoys health and therapeutic services. The present study was done with the aim to analyze development levels in cities in Tehran regarding health infrastructural index using the standardized score and Morris' model. METHODS This is a descriptive and pragmatic study which ranks 14 cities in Tehr...