IoT Enabled real-Time urban transport management system

Abstract With the popularity of smart transportation in smart cities, there is an exponential increase in the number of vehicles on the road, which in turn increases the congestion in the network traffic. Therefore, it is becoming a challenging task to find parking slots in modern societies around the globe. To tackle the aforementioned issues, in this paper, we propose a system named iERS, which reduces the user’s effort to locate the nearest available parking slots in real-time. It reduces individual efforts to locate a suitable parking slot. iERS helps the user to find an available parking slot and also provides direction towards the slot. iERS uses the Internet of Things (IoT)-based infrastructure to monitor and signal the availability of different parking slots around the smart communities. The simulation and testbed results demonstrate that iERS provides better guidance to the users to reserve the available parking slot in comparison to the other existing solutions.