The Role Of Smart Cities In Solving Urban Problems (Case Study: Transportation Problems In Damascus)

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 smart 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.