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Characterization of the Accessibility Information of a City

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The development of Information Society and Communications Technologies provide new opportunities to monitor and improve the accessibility of modern cities. The concepts of smart and ubiquitous cities make use of processing, sensorization and communications technologies to provide knowledge and intelligence to the city. Knowing this information as up to date as possible is a very helpful tool to improve the lives of citizens, since it allows us to locate accessibility barriers, which helps improve citizen mobility. In this context, this work carries out the task of comprehensively characterizing the information on accessibility available in cities. To do this, we will catalog the information sources that we have available so far from previous works of this research group. The final objective is to find the most suitable format for representing accessibility information, as well as to define what the data to be stored will be: points, routes and areas. For this, the most used systems will be analyzed: GPX, GML and GeoJSON and will be compared to obtain a conclusion.

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  1. Department of Computer Science Technology and Computation, University of Alicante, 03690, Alicante, Spain

    Rafa Mollá-Sirvent & V. Gilart-Iglesias

  2. Department of Computer Technology, University of Alicante, San Vicente del Raspeig, Spain

    Higinio Mora

  3. Department of Building Sciences and Urbanism, University of Alicante, 03690, Alicante, Spain

    Raquel Pérez del Hoyo

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  1. Research & Innovation Institute (Rii), Warsaw, Poland

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  2. Effat University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  3. Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Naif R. Aljohani

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Mollá-Sirvent, R., Mora, H., Gilart-Iglesias, V., Pérez del Hoyo, R. (2021). Characterization of the Accessibility Information of a City. In: Visvizi, A., Lytras, M.D., Aljohani, N.R. (eds) Research and Innovation Forum 2020. RIIFORUM 2020. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62066-0_2

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