Intelligent Urban Cities: Optimal Path Selection based on Ad Hoc Network

Abstract

Fusion of internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence for smart cities has allowed structured policy making.In particular, traffic jam is one of the serious concern in metropolitan cities. In advanced countries, specific devices are installed to assemble flow of traffic. The state of traffic is streamed to commuters through network. This dependency on internet connection results in inappropriate solution in absence of stable physical infrastructure. The developing countries lack availability of internet on roadway and urban zones face even worst condition. This study proposes a smart framework to enable optimal path selection by communicating with neighbouring devices. The android smart phones serve the purpose of embedded sensors. A temporary network is created for smart transportation system. Data processing and cleaning were conducted on different routes of two urban cities. The proposed system is evaluated on conventional and proposed optimal path selection techniques. Computed results depict that travel times have been decreased to around 23.3% in comparison to conventional methods using MDSP algorithm.