Traffic gridlock has become a very familiar scene in cities due to the inefficiencies of existing transport systems. Context-aware dispatch has the potential to solve such congestion problems. Thus, this paper addresses the problem of realising large scale real-time taxi dispatch with service guarantees on road networks. Such a system requires the dynamic matching of travel requests made by pas...

Although the cities in Pearl River Delta (PRD) China are amongst world’s most exposed to flooding due climate change, surprisingly little is done address this problem. This article explores barriers emergence of policies adapting growing flood risk two PRD cities, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, underlining importance Chinese territorial governance system for adaptive capacity at local level. Focusing ...

The growing of the number of vehicles cause serious strains on road infrastructures. Traffic jams inevitably occur, wasting time and money for both cities and their drivers. To mitigate this problem, traffic simulation tools based on multiagent techniques can be used to quickly prototype potentially problematic scenarios to better understand their inherent causes. This work centers around the e...

This article considers the impact that increasing pragmatism and pluralism are having on South–South cooperation (SSC). Focusing growing sway of multilateral platforms for between cities reinvigoration regionalism, it identifies experimentalist design principles fostering autonomy-enhancing initiatives developing countries have capacity to learn from scale up locally-informed, adaptive problem ...

The development of an urban area should be followed by the arrangement adequate infrastructure. One important needs in is transportation. An increase number means transport often creates congestion, especially at intersections. timing cycles that do not lead tothe vehicles lining up but only based on a balanced division time one causes congestion. Based this background, system setting flame cyc...

Adaptive re-use is essential for the sustainability of heritage buildings. It ensures cultural and socio-economic benefits through morphing conservation to regeneration urban environs. The rehabilitation historic covered markets erected in cast/wrought iron European capitals reinforces this philosophy. Through critical assessment case studies on restoration adaptive Malta, Spain, Bulgaria, pape...

Intelligent vehicular systems and smart city applications are the fastest growing Internet-of-Things (IoT) implementations at a compound annual growth rate of 30%. In view recent advances in IoT devices emerging new breed driven by artificial intelligence (AI), fog radio access network (F-RAN) has been recently introduced for fifth-generation (5G) wireless communications to overcome latency lim...