Author, as appears in the article.: Angles-Tafalla C; Viejo A; Castella-Roca J; Mut-Puigserver M; Payeras-Capella MM
Department: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
URV's Author/s: Anglés Tafalla, Carles / Castellà Roca, Jordi / Viejo Galicia, Luis Alexandre
Keywords: Smart cities Security Privacy Low emission zones Electronic road pricing Blockchain vehicles smart contracts smart cities security proposals privacy low emission zones electronic road pricing cameras blockchains blockchain
Abstract: Low Emission Zones (LEZ)s are areas where access restrictions to polluting vehicles are enforced. These infrastructures have become a main mechanism in large cities to deal with urban traffic and environmental pollution. A main problem of practical LEZs is that they generally depend on a camera network that identifies users and jeopardizes their privacy. In the literature, there are some privacy-preserving works that rely on camera-free approaches; however, they still suffer from a major issue: they depend on centralized entities to manage the vehicles’ accesses/departures and their corresponding fee payment. Those centralized entities represent a critical single point of failure in the system, endangering its security and availability. In order to address this situation, this paper proposes a new scheme that decentralizes the LEZ management, dealing with vehicle accesses as blockchain transactions, and pricing and charging them using smart contracts. In order to validate the deployability of the new scheme in real scenarios, it has been implemented and tested in both a controlled environment and a low-traffic street. The evaluation of the smart contracts’ costs in terms of gas has been included in the performed tests. The results obtained are satisfactory and show the feasibility of the new proposal.
Thematic Areas: Transportation science & technology Mechanical engineering Engineering, electrical & electronic Engineering, civil Engenharias iv Engenharias iii Engenharias i Computer science applications Ciência da computação Automotive engineering
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: carles.angles@urv.cat jordi.castella@urv.cat alexandre.viejo@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-0037-9888 0000-0003-2342-5100
Record's date: 2024-08-03
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Link to the original source: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9917464
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Ieee Transactions On Intelligent Transportation Systems. 24 (1): 580-595
APA: Angles-Tafalla C; Viejo A; Castella-Roca J; Mut-Puigserver M; Payeras-Capella MM (2023). Security and Privacy in a Blockchain-Powered Access Control System for Low Emission Zones. Ieee Transactions On Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24(1), 580-595. DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2022.3211659
Article's DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2022.3211659
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2023
Publication Type: Journal Publications