Reducing Transportation Inequality In Future Smart Cities By Combining New Technologies And Gamification

The planning of future cities is one of the researchers' interests that has led to concepts such as smart cities and livable cities. On the other hand, the growth of inequality is one of the major concerns. This study presents an approach to reduce inequality in urban transportation by educating desirable behaviors to citizens.

This article uses documentary studies to identify the dimensions of inequality, new technologies in the future smart cities, and developing a gamification system. Also, essential technologies in smart future cities the identified by the Delphi method.

Experts identified the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, and cloud computing as essential topics of new technologies. Then proposed an approach that citizens use active and public transportation systems more to reduce inequality.

A framework designed to use the new technologies for planning and managing smart future cities and utilizing the concept of gamification to reduce the costs of infrastructures, collecting and analyzing data. It also habituates citizens' proper transportation behaviors to reduce inequality in future cities by using active and public transportation.