A Distributed Ledger Based Infrastructure for Smart Transportation System and Social Good

TL;DR

This paper proposes a distributed ledger-based architecture utilizing IOTA, IPFS, Ethereum, and Zero Knowledge Proofs to enable secure, private, and shareable data exchange in smart transportation systems, fostering social good.

Contribution

It introduces an integrated system architecture combining multiple blockchain and distributed ledger technologies for smart transportation data management.

Findings

Demonstrated data sharing in smart mobility scenarios

Showcased privacy guarantees via Zero Knowledge Proofs

Enabled development of novel smart transportation services

Abstract

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.