Energy and Environmental Systems

Transportation systems sit at the intersection of energy use, environmental impact, and human safety, making them a critical lens through which researchers examine how cities function under both ordinary and crisis conditions. When disasters strike—floods, typhoons, wildfires—the resilience of urban infrastructure depends heavily on how well sensors, mobile networks, and IoT-enabled devices can relay real-time information to emergency responders and decision-makers. Researchers are working to understand how smart city frameworks can reduce energy consumption while simultaneously improving the speed and accuracy of disaster response, from predictive flood models to connected systems that support firefighters in the field. Open questions remain around how to integrate these technologies equitably across cities with uneven resources, and how to balance the environmental costs of running dense sensor networks against the sustainability goals those networks are meant to serve.

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35,369

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28,907

Keywords

Disaster ManagementUrban ResilienceSmart CityIoTCattle Health MonitoringEnergy Consumption