Integrating Smart Transportation System for a Proposed Smart City- A Context in Sri Lanka

Abstract

Smart transportation is playing a vital role as an important building block in smart city, providing solutions to many issues that relate to traffic on the road. This influences safety and quality of living (QoL), the main goals of smart city development. Smart transportation system in an urban area will saves time, saves environment by reducing fuel consumption and unwanted driving time. In such case, investigation of different aspects, different functionalities of smart transportation, purposes, research methods, technologies and research gaps to be filled are obligatory. This study presents a literature review based on previous related studies done on smart transportation in smart cities in order to understand the research area as well as the future research needs and gaps to be fulfilled. Here it summarizes different perspectives of smart city and smart transportation considered in studies, types of the researches performed, reported problems which are addressed in studies, purposes of deploying smart transportation, reported benefits and problems and technologies which are compatible in this research area.