TITLE: Logistics of smart cities
AUTHORS: Snežana Tadić, Mladen Krstić, Miloš Veljović
ABSTRACT: Growing economic, sociopolitical, and environmental challenges encourage or force cities, their administrations, companies, and population to review existing and rethink new ways of functioning of urban environments, lifestyles, business models and processes, supply and reverse logistics systems, etc. Efforts to overcome such challenges and improve the quality of life in the city gave rise to the concept of smart cities, which implies the application of various innovative solutions, concepts, and technologies in urban areas. Given that logistics represents one of the most important functions of cities, a smart city also implies smart city logistics, and smart city logistics is the implementation of logistics flows and operations using smart technologies and processes. Improving efficiency, increasing visual attractiveness, reducing the costs and negative environmental impacts caused by logistics processes and activities is achieved by applying technologies such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud computing, autonomous vehicles, etc. In this paper, various possibilities, advantages and challenges of applying the mentioned and other technologies in certain activities, subsystems, and aspects of city logistics are analyzed.
KEYWORDS: Smart city, City logistics, Smart technologies, Industry 4.0
PAGES: 63-69
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