A Review of the Challenges and Opportunities for Smart Mobility and Logistics Solutions

Smart mobility and logistics (SML) is an emerging paradigm that aims to interconnect transportation networks, industries, and commercial services to provide better services to end-users. SML solutions are rapidly growing in popularity not only in industrial sectors but also at individual levels by means of ride-sharing solutions, micro-mobility solutions, electric vehicles, and intelligent autonomous systems like self-driving cars, trucks, drones, and legged robots, among others. Usually, these solutions utilize communications technologies such as 5G internet services, cloud services, the internet of things, intelligent solutions, sophisticated routing and scheduling algorithms, and security features. The SML sector is still in its early stages, and solutions need to be designed for challenges that are unique due to the diverse needs. Also, many places in the world are facing challenges such as disruption in the global and local supply chains, traffic congestion, the death toll due to poor traffic networks, low-performance routes, and degraded quality of service. This paper aims to help researchers address these challenges and find innovative solutions that can help achieve SML goals.