Paper Info
Title
Between the Megalopolis and the Deep Blue Sky: Challenges of Transport with UAVs in Future Smart Cities
Abstract
With the rapid increase of the world's urban population, the infrastructure of the constantly expanding metropolitan areas is undergoing an immense pressure. To meet the growing demands of sustainable urban environments and improve the quality of life for citizens, municipalities will increasingly rely on novel transport solutions. In particular, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are expected to have a crucial role in the future smart cities thanks to their interesting features such as autonomy, flexibility, mobility, adaptive altitude, and small dimensions. However, densely populated megalopolises of the future are administrated by several municipals, governmental and civil society actors, where vivid economic activities involving a multitude of individual stakeholders take place. In such megalopolises, the use of agents for UAVs is gaining more interest especially in complex application scenarios where coordination and cooperation are necessary. This paper sketches a visionary view of the UAVs' role in the transport domain of future smart cities. Additionally, four challenging research directions are highlighted including problems related to autonomy, explainability, security and validation & verification of the UAVs behavior.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.5555/3306127.3331891
adaptive agents and multi-agents systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multiagent Systems,Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,Intelligent Transport Systems,Smart Cities
Population,Civil society,Megalopolis,Multitude,Computer science,Environmental planning,Autonomy,Multi-agent system,Intelligent transportation system,Metropolitan area,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yazan Mualla177.23
Amro Najjar21616.58
Stéphane Galland319223.57
Christophe Nicolle46815.68
Igor Haman Tchappi523.55
Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar611842.31
Kary Främling729740.28