The research problem is the lack of urban policies which use smart cities technologies in solving urban
problems, especially transportation problems, so the research aims to develop a strategy to solve
transportation problems in Damascus using smar
t cities applications.
It starts by defining smart cities and its dimensions, then shows its basic applications, especially smart
transportation, its components, application challenges, and its role in solving transportation problems,
then it introduce similar experiments for the application of smart transportation systems, then it
concludes to a set of recommendations which contribute to solve traffic problems in Damascus through
the application of intelligent transportation strategy.
