Smarter Cities With Parked Cars as Roadside Units

Smarter Cities with Parked Cars as Roadside Units

Real-time monitoring of traffic density, road congestion, public transportation, and parking availability are key to realizing the vision of a smarter city and, with the advent of vehicular networking technologies such as IEEE 802.11p and WAVE, this information can now be gathered directly from the vehicles in an urban area. To act as a backbone to the network of moving vehicles, collecting, ag...

Towards Smarter Cars

Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

Well, our term isupand it is time tomoveon.Theownershave selected a new bench andwe slowly fade into that good night. As I reflect on my 6 years as editor-in-chief, there are many highpoints in reporting new discoveries, but none compares with sharing the complexity of publishing with dedicated people; there is something inspiring about having worked with such a fabulous group of associate edit...

Markov chain of distances between parked cars

We describe the distribution of distances between parked cars as a solution of certain Markov process and show that its solution is obtained with the help of a distributional fixed point equation. Under certain conditions the process is solved explicitly. The resulting probability density is compared with the actual parking data measured in the city. We focus on the spacing distribution between...

Foundations for Smarter Cities

C. Harrison B. Eckman R. Hamilton P. Hartswick J. Kalagnanam J. Paraszczak P. Williams This paper describes the information technology (IT) foundation and principles for Smarter Citiesi. Smarter Cities are urban areas that exploit operational data, such as that arising from traff ic congestion, power consumption statistics, and public safety events, to optimize the operation of city services. T...