UAV-Enabled Intelligent Transportation Systems for the Smart City: Applications and Challenges

By H. Menouar, Ismail Güvenç, Kemal Akkaya, Selcuk Uluagac, A. Kadri, Adem Tuncer. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2017

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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A Survey of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Formation: Performance, Formation Control, and Communication Capability (2021, methodology): “UAVs are generally used for aerial photography, drone delivery, precision agriculture, and trafﬁc monitoring [30].”
Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network: A Survey (2018, background): “UAV-enhanced VANET can not only improve infrastructure coverage and vehicle-to-vehicle connectivity, but also provide better safety and security on the road, and bring more comfort to the driver [148].”
Applications of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in road safety, traffic and highway infrastructure management: Recent advances and challenges (2020, positive): “…battery life of drones such as enhanced lithium-ion batteries and hydrogen fuel cells, more energy-efficient designs of UAVs, and the use of alternative energy sources such as solar energy to extend flight missions, UAVs may fly on the order of several hours in the future (Menouar et al., 2017).”
Survey on 6G Frontiers: Trends, Applications, Requirements, Technologies and Future Research (2021, neutral): “logistics and military operations [106].”
Routing in Flying Ad Hoc Networks: A Comprehensive Survey (2020, background): “…operation, and mobility capabilities, UAVs can be used in various application scenarios of intelligent transportation systems for future smart cities including aerial dynamic signals, aerial speed cameras, aerial roadside units, aerial accident report agents, trafﬁc monitoring, etc., [75], [76].”
Quo vadis artificial intelligence? (2022, background): “The application fields of AI are extensive, covering (but not limited to) speech recognition [4, 5], image processing [6, 7], natural language processing [8, 9], smart robots [10, 11], autonomous vehicles [12, 13], energy systems [14, 15], healthcare [16, 17], Fintech [18], etc.”
Cellular-Enabled UAV Communication: A Connectivity-Constrained Trajectory Optimization Perspective (2018, background): “Last, UAV-assisted cellular communication was also leveraged in public safety communications [88]–[90] and intelligent transportation systems for smart city applications [91].”
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs): practical aspects, applications, open challenges, security issues, and future trends (2023, background): “UAVs can accomplish 100% automation of the transportation industry in RTM [104].”
Trajectory Design for Completion Time Minimization in UAV-Enabled Multicasting (2018, background): “and emergency responses [30], video streaming [31], [32], military operations, and intelligent transportation systems [33].”
Survey on Collaborative Smart Drones and Internet of Things for Improving Smartness of Smart Cities (2019, background): “The authors of [23] described drone-enabled intelligent transportation for a smart city.”
Target following on nano-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (2017, background): “UAVs are widely adopted for surveillance, inspection of hazardous and hostile environments, aerial photography, just to name a few [1], [3].”
Deep Learning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Object Detection and Tracking: A survey (2021, background): “These data, either in content or time, are extremely informative, and, thus, object detection and tracking have entered the era of mass UAVs [1], [2], which have played an increasingly important role in land cover mapping [4], [5]; smart agriculture [6], [7]; smart cities [8]; traffic monitoring [6]”
UAV-Assisted Emergency Networks in Disasters (2019, background): “Recently, UAV-assisted communications and networking have attracted plenty of interest from both academia and industry [2]–[12].”
The Roadmap to 6G Security and Privacy (2021, methodology): “With the support of 6G and AI based services, UAV technologies will be used in new use cases such as passenger taxi, automated logistics, and military operations [48], [49].”
6G for Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) Communications: Enabling Technologies, Challenges, and Opportunities (2020, background): “UAVs can provide different types of services for vehicular users, such as relaying, caching, and computing and c) broadcasting warning about road hazards that occurred in an area not pre-equipped with an RSU [95].”
Artificial Intelligence, Transport and the Smart City: Definitions and Dimensions of a New Mobility Era (2020, background): “…like ethics and privacy, cost, licensing, legislation and market adoption, and on the other hand, with technical issues, such as the proper use of wireless sensors, data communications, application management, resource training and allocation and power management are addressed adequately [45,46].”