How is Transportation Being Transformed in Smart Cities

Transportation has always been one of the most complicated problems that City Councils have to deal with. Until the rise of digital technologies, there have been two different approaches to traffic issues: building more and bigger highways (a good example is Los Angeles) or putting the focus on public transport, like most European cities. Both approaches are apparently very different but they share the same basis: investment in huge, expensive infrastructures. Smart cities -digital cities- approach traffic issues from a new, smarter perspective from the believe that we need neither more subways nor wider highways. New technologies based on Big Data, IoT, artificial intelligence and machine learning allow us to put new solutions on the table .