A Distributed Ledger Based Infrastructure for Smart Transportation System and Social Good
This work addresses data management and privacy issues in smart transportation for urban mobility stakeholders, but it is incremental as it combines existing technologies without introducing new methods.
The paper tackled the challenge of developing smart transportation systems by proposing a system architecture that integrates distributed ledgers, IOTA, IPFS, Ethereum, and Zero Knowledge Proofs to create, store, and share user-generated sensor data, demonstrating its feasibility through use case scenarios.
This paper presents a system architecture to promote the development of smart transportation systems. Thanks to the use of distributed ledgers and related technologies, it is possible to create, store and share data generated by users through their sensors, while moving. In particular, IOTA and IPFS are used to store and certify data (and their related metadata) coming from sensors or by the users themselves. Ethereum is exploited as the smart contract platform that coordinates the data sharing and provisioning. The necessary privacy guarantees are provided by the usage of Zero Knowledge Proof. We show some results obtained from some use case scenarios that demonstrate how such technologies can be integrated to build novel smart services and to promote social good in user mobility.