Energy and Environmental Systems

Transportation and energy systems sit at the intersection of infrastructure, technology, and human behavior, making them central to how cities absorb and recover from disruption. Researchers in this space study how urban environments can be made more resilient through tools like IoT sensor networks, mobile computing platforms, and predictive models that anticipate failures before disasters unfold. A pressing open question is how to integrate real-time data streams—from traffic flows, building energy loads, and environmental sensors—into decision-support systems that emergency responders can actually trust and use under pressure. Alongside this, there is growing interest in whether smart city technologies can reduce environmental costs without trading away equity in access to critical services.

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35,504

Total citations

29,166

Keywords

Disaster ManagementUrban ResilienceSmart CityIoTCattle Health MonitoringEnergy Consumption