Document Type : Research Paper
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1 Research Member of ACECR East Azarbaijan Province
2 Professor, Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran
3 Tabriz University - Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Planning - Department of Geography and Urban Planning
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The ever-growing expansion of cities and traffic on the one hand and the development of new technologies on the other hand made countries face new challenges. Old institutions and management methods are in conflict with the complex and rapidly changing world which in response, planners are trying to create models for the development of 21st century cities with integrated view in order to respond new expectations. Development of a smart city is one, which is the pivot of transformation and development of the third millennium. Urban transportation is one of the areas affected by the new information and communication technology as such the Internet of Things (IoT).
This paper is a kind of applied research, yet with respect to information gathering and analysis is descriptive-analytical. Through conducting qualitative analysis, using an open-ended questionnaire the components and the influential and then a closed questionnaire designed and with the purposeful sampling method using the snowball technique, data was collected in 177 samples were collected from the statistical population area. Findings of this research depicting many problems that Tabriz, as a metropolises faces in the field of intelligent intra-city transportation, realization of which encounter many challenges and obstacles, including the weakness of integrated urban management, lack of a clear vision, weak planning, lack of financial resources, lack of relevant organizational structures, lack of intelligent systems based on the Internet of Things and the use of heterogeneous systems, lack of familiarity with intelligent systems based on the Internet of Things, etc. are facing.
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