Intelligent Urban Architecture Enabling Scalable Automatic Transport Control Across Latin America (#451)
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July 15-17, 2026
Published In
"Engineering without Borders: Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge, Innovation, and Alliances for a Future from the Americas"
Location of Conference
Santiago (Chile)
Authors
Salas Castro, Fernando
Abstract
Due to operational demands brought on by variables like population pressures, urban infrastructures in Latin American cities are evolving quickly, unpredictability of the climate and growing digitalization. These circumstances highlight basic flaws in the current energy, logistics, transportation, and cyber-physical systems, where the development of integrated, robust, and scalable urban infrastructure is hampered by scattered technological innovation. This paper presents a thorough conceptual framework for intelligent autonomous transportation management that is tailored to the complexities of Latin American urban networks. The model provides a unified framework that enables adaptive transport management and real-time decision-making by combining developments in machine learning, digital twins, edge computing, Internet of Things sensing, and cyber-physical systems. Finding cross-domain interdependencies, evaluating methodological and interoperability limitations, and creating a scalable architecture that synchronizes mobility behavior with cybersecurity are some of the objectives, environmental and energy limitations. The results of a multidisciplinary synthesis show that convergence across sensing ecosystems, distributed computational management, and predictive intelligence is necessary for notable gains in transport resilience and operational efficiency. The proposed architecture demonstrates how coordinated control systems and continuous data streams may increase forecast accuracy, reduce fragmentation, and offer more equitable transportation options in quickly growing urban regions.. According to the research, Latin American surroundings now lack a completely integrated cyber-physical approach, which has led to the development of a new field of study focused on urban transport intelligence. The findings show the enormous potential of state-of-the-art transportation systems that incorporate resilience, scalability, and human-centered design for future urban growth.