Wired Highways: The Soul of a Smarter City

Title

Wired Highways: The Soul of a Smarter City

Creator

Das, Anish; Singh, Madan; Singhal, Prateek

Description

The "smart city"concept emerged in the 1990s, characterized by extensive globalization, rapid technological advancement, and the emergence of the knowledge economy. Urban planning professionals began considering how to introduce digital technology into existing city infrastructure to create cities that were faster, efficient, sustainable, and better managed. Innovative thinking has moved away from traditional methods of city planning and management, and has started to challenge the planning systems where governments understood complexity from a bureaucratic perspective. In planning smart cities, local governments are largely relying on using information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance essential city functions like transportation, energy, water, and public safety. Urbanization is becoming increasingly complex, and the global urban population is growing at unprecedented rates, creating a need of urban systems to be smarter, safer, and more environmentally sustainable. Cities are faced with many complex problems, but urban transportation is one of the most daunting. Existing infrastructure is becoming overwhelmed by congestion, increasing volume of traffic, and safety issues. An innovative way of tackling these problems is through Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). ITS is the use of ICT including sensors, software, communication networks, and data analytics in transportation systems to increase efficiency, safety, reliability, and sustainability. By using real-time monitoring, predictive analytics, and data-driven decision-making, ITS creates traffic management systems that improve city response time, decreases congestion and accidents, and increases sustainable or environmental-friendly transport choices. This research recognizes the importance of ITS to smart city development, emphasizing. 2026 IEEE.

Source

Conference Proceedings - 1st International Conference on Advancing Sustainable Solutions through Technologies, ICASST 2026;

Date

01-01-2026

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Coverage

Das A., Christ (Deemed To Be University), School of Sciences, Department of Computer Science, Ghaziabad, 203001, India; Singh M., Christ (Deemed To Be University), School of Sciences, Department of Computer Science, Ghaziabad, 203001, India; Singhal P., Chandigarh University, Department of Computer Science And Engineering, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, 209859, India

Rights

Restricted Access; Hardcopy may be available in the library

Relation

ISBN: 979-833157222-8;

Format

online

Language

English

Type

Conference paper

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASST68917.2026.11484348

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