Scalable System for Smart Urban Transport Management

• Main Authors: Nauman Ahmad Khan, Jean-Christophe Nebel, Souheil Khaddaj, Vesna Brujic-Okretic
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hindawi-Wiley 2020-01-01
• Series: Journal of Advanced Transportation
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8894705

Efficient management of smart transport systems requires the integration of various sensing technologies, as well as fast processing of a high volume of heterogeneous data, in order to perform smart analytics of urban networks in real time. However, dynamic response that relies on intelligent demand-side transport management is particularly challenging due to the increasing flow of transmitted sensor data. In this work, a novel smart service-driven, adaptable middleware architecture is proposed to acquire, store, manipulate, and integrate information from heterogeneous data sources in order to deliver smart analytics aimed at supporting strategic decision-making. The architecture offers adaptive and scalable data integration services for acquiring and processing dynamic data, delivering fast response time, and offering data mining and machine learning models for real-time prediction, combined with advanced visualisation techniques. The proposed solution has been implemented and validated, demonstrating its ability to provide real-time performance on the existing, operational, and large-scale bus network of a European capital city.