Crowdsourcing in ITS: The State of the Work and the Networking

In the last decade, crowdsourcing has emerged as a novel mechanism for accomplishing temporal and spatial critical tasks in transportation with the collective intelligence of individuals and organizations. This paper presents a timely literature review of crowdsourcing and its applications in intelligent transportation systems (ITS). We investigate the ITS services enabled by crowdsourcing, the keyword co-occurrence and coauthorship networks formed by ITS publications, and identify the problems and challenges that need further research. Finally, we briefly introduce our future works focusing on using geospatial tagged data to analyze real-time traffic conditions and the management of traffic flow in urban environment. This review aims to help ITS practitioners and researchers build a state-of-the-art understanding of crowdsourcing in ITS, as well as to call for more research on the application of crowdsourcing in transportation systems.

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