Smart Cities: Sustainable and Safety Roads Study Model

Safety of Smart Cities

Present work is based on the concept of integral safety management of system of systems and it gives the proposal of set of measures into the simultaneously modern concept of communities called “smart cities”. The target is to ensure the safe smart city, i.e. the human community that will ensure the security and the development of their citizens under the conditions of normal, abnormal and crit...

Smart Sustainable Cities: Definition and Challenges

In this chapter, we investigate the concept of Smart Sustainable Cities. We begin with five major developments of the last decades and show how they can be said to build a basis for the Smart Sustainable Cities concept. We argue that for the concept to have any useful meaning, it needs to be more strictly defined than it has previously been. We suggest such a definition and bring up some of the...

Orchestrating infrastructure for sustainable Smart Cities

O1: Roads Safety and Neurotrauma

Road traffic accidents account for approximately 3000 deaths on a daily basis, and 50 million injuries and 1.2 million deaths each year. In low-income and middle income countries, road traffic accidents account for 85% of deaths and 90% of annual disability. Casualties of this magnitude are a serious problem throughout the world and create a significant impact on society. In addition, neurologi...

Smart Cars and Smart Roads

This paper describes two projects applying computer vision to Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems. The first project has resulted in the development of a system for monitoring traffic scenes using video information. The objective is to estimate traffic parameters such as flow rates, speeds and link travel times, as well as to detect quickly disruptive incidents such as stalled vehicles and acci...