Smart City Roadmap for Istanbul

Abstract

Growing population and rapid urbanization brought challenges like traffic congestion, environmental impacts, energy consumption, and road accidents to cities across the globe. Istanbul is among the top five congested cities in the world where its residence spends almost 200 hours every year in traffic congestion, to cope with these challenges, cities must take undertake a shift to become smarter and improve their transportation systems. Therefore, this study seeks to explore and analyze smart transportation development in the smart city context with a particular view on Istanbul city to fill this shortage. This study which is a three step systematic literature review consisting of bibliometric analysis from most cited Scopus publications in the last couple of decades, aims to review and classify previous studies by using a systematic literature review approach following PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines. Along with systematic literature review 27,431 records from the Scopus database were identified and after quality assessments by using PRISMA guidelines, inclusion and exclusion criteria 27 studies were selected for the analyzes and likewise, bibliometric analysis results with the support of VOSviewer software, revealed that smart cities are interrelated with smart transportation, IoT, sensors, and big data. Furthermore, the results introduce a roadmap and suggest that in order to build future cities in a more sustainable way, air taxi drones, electrical and autonomous vehicles will result in a safer, emission-free, and cleaner smart city and requires the theoretical and empirical attention of researchers. Taken together, this study offers valuable insights and implications into evaluating smart city from a transportation perspective to support city leaders, policymakers, and local governments to reduce traffic congestion and develop new emerging technologies.