Integrating ITS with smart city development: case study of Vietnam

Vietnam as well as developing countries are eye-witnessing with the rapid urbanization in recent years. Urbanization brings benefits and negative consequences at the same time. In attempt to facilitate citizens’ life, various smart city frameworks and architectures have been developed. Recently, Vietnam government and city authority have paid a lot of attention to the ITS (intelligent transport system) system with a practical series of solutions, which seems to be the most practical smart city applications. However, the very big difficulty in ITS and smart cities development in Vietnam is the lack of synchronization. This paper aims at exploring the methodology and procedure of smart city development in the world, then proposing a model to integrate the ITS development in Vietnam big cities. An important requirement for the ITS system is to be associated with the smart city development process, for the urban traffic management to be associated with the overall development of smart technical infrastructure.