BIG DATA IN SMART TRANSPORTATION PLANNING: TOWARDS AN APPLICABLE SMART SOCIO-ECONOMIC TRANSPORTATION PLATFORM IN HISTORICAL MEGA CITIES

Abstract

This paper aims to develop the feasibility of transportation big data in order to drive changes that impacts directly both government and citizens’ goals and objectives. The relevance is to face and develop transportation challenges in the down-town of historical mega-cities. A smart transportation platform is proposed that can manage huge amounts of big transportation data planning (BTDP) and give guidance to the urban authorities to make their municipalities smarter and digital, and to propose smart transportation building (STB) as part of smart digital city while preserving its historical identity. This paper proposed a developed framework for smart socio-economic indicator through transportation platform for city data harvesting. The results were able to classify major challenges facing users which revolving the socio-economic indicator; according to a surveying questionnaire on the historical downtown of Alexandria City in Egypt as an important historical mega-city; in order to set applicable solutions via using the Smart socio-economic transportation platform (S2TP).