The frequency and intensity of natural disasters has significantly increased over the past decades and this trend is predicted to continue. Facing these possible and unexpected disasters, urban emergency management has become the especially important issue for the whole governments around the world. In this paper, we present a novel intelligent system for urban emergency management during the l...

This paper reports our experiences with agent-based architectures for Intelligent Traffic Management. We describe and compare TRYS and TRYSA2, two multiagent systems that perform decision support for real time traffic management in the urban motorway network around Barcelona. Both systems draw upon similar traffic management knowledge, but the former is based on a centralised architecture, whil...

This paper illustrates main research activities and results of the project “TETRis – TETRA Innovative Open Source Services” concerned with enabling innovative services for Smart City/Smart Territory by means of technological tools and intelligent platforms for collecting, representing, managing and exploiting data and information gathered from sensors and devices deployed in the territory. Tech...

The urban integrated pipeline network transfers information and energies day and night for the city, therefore, the information system of urban integrated pipeline network is crucial for urban planning and management. This system provides an effective platform to store, manage and analyze the integrated pipeline network data. This paper introduces the method of constructing the system based on ...

Optimization plays an important role in most real world applications that support decision makers to take the right decision regarding the strategic directions and operations of the system they manage. Solutions for traffic management and traffic congestion problems are considered major problems that most decision making authorities for cities around the world are looking for. This review paper...

Traffic congestion in urban road networks is a costly problem that affects all major cities in developed countries. To tackle this problem, it is possible (i) to act on the supply side, increasing the number of roads or lanes in a network, (ii) to reduce the demand, restricting the access to urban areas at specific hours or to specific vehicles, or (iii) to improve the efficiency of the existin...

Urban traffic gathers increasing interest as cities become bigger, crowded and “smart”. We present a system for heterogeneous stream processing and crowdsourcing supporting intelligent urban traffic management. Complex events related to traffic congestion (trends) are detected from heterogeneous sources involving fixed sensors mounted on intersections and mobile sensors mounted on public transp...

Nowadays, one of the problems of human life is popula- tion congestion and the lack of ability to meet their needs. One of the important infrastructures affected by this issue is the transportation infrastructure. Moreover, increasing transportation facilities through conventional methods, due to the need for macro investment and much time, cannot be nowadays considered as a proper and practi- ...

The monitoring and warning of urban rail transit is the core of operation management, and the breadth and depth of the monitoring range directly affect the quality of urban rail transit operation. For the current domestic monitoring system, most of the critical equipments and technologies are introduced from abroad; it is diseconomy, and also causes hidden danger. Realizing the localization of ...

Pavement maintenance plays a significant role in megacities. Managing complaints and scheduling road reviews are the two concerns under intelligent pavement management system (PMS) plan. In contrast, if damages not treated immediately, they will increase over time. By leveraging accurate data from sensors, smart PMS improve capability, support sustainability, drive economic growth network. This...