Smart Technologies and Vehicle‐to‐X (V2X) Infrastructures for Smart Mobility Cities

The vehicle‐to‐X (V2X) infrastructure plays a vital role in connecting individual vehicles that travel across the smart city. Smart traffic routing and advising services are both essential components of a smart traffic system. To study the technological challenges of integrating these into an efficient smart city infrastructure, this chapter is organized as follows: various aspects of data communications within a smart city are presented followed by the economic aspects of infrastructural deployment. It then takes a closer look at the issues as well as the benefits of connecting each and every vehicle in a smart city environment. It further takes a brief look at selected case studies in telemedicine, green city, intelligent transportation, and autonomous vehicles. The chapter ends with a discussion on vehicular communications infrastructure interoperability and reliability such that the network can be made scalable to cater for future expansion in terms of both increased traffic volume and area of coverage.