Smart mobility: Crowdsourcing solutions for smart transport system in smart cities context

The increasing population, traffic growth and congestion have created a huge pressure on transport authorities to maintain and control traffic conditions in better way in most of the cities worldwide. Such issues have generated a huge demand for smart mobility to facilitate the organized commuting process and transport services. The article focuses on identifying the various components which can make transport system advanced and smart. For this, the crowdsourcing technique has been applied to get the innovative ideas related to transport systems. The content analysis has been performed to classify the received ideas into seven designed categories. The findings suggest the significant improvements that can be incorporated in current transport system especially in Indian cities to develop a sustainable and efficient transport system which can fulfil the population mobility demand. Some worldwide initiatives of smart transport system also have been presented in the study to drive lessons outcomes for developing countries like India.