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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Comput. Sci.
Sec. Networks and Communications
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fcomp.2025.1443442
This article is part of the Research Topic Intelligent Systems, Applications, and Paradigms for Ubiquitous Mobile Networks View all articles

Future Aerial Sustainable and Environment-Friendly Transport using Stratospheric Platforms

Provisionally accepted
Ayodele Periola Ayodele Periola 1*Timothy Olaseinde Timothy Olaseinde 2*Olugbenga Ogidan Olugbenga Ogidan 3
  • 1 Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa
  • 2 University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
  • 3 Elizade University, Ondo, Nigeria

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    Technological advances play an important role in future transport. Currently, assets such as fossilfuel-based terrestrial vehicles, hybrid terrestrial vehicles and non-fossil fuel-based terrestrial vehicles are used in logistics. However, the use of terrestrial and aerial logistic assets faces challenges from cargo theft and hijacking. The occurrence of cargo theft and hijacking degrades the resilience of the organizational supply chain. It is important to reduce the success of cargo theft, and organizational loss. The presented research proposes the use of stratosphere based platform for cargo transport to reduce cargo theft and hijacking. The use of stratosphere based platforms is beneficial as its host geographical location, the stratosphere is significantly inaccessible to rogue elements. In addition, stratosphere utilization results in reduced cargo transport time due to the reduced air resistance. The proposed research presents the cargo intelligent network architecture which demonstrates how using stratospheric platforms for cargo transport solutions can address this challenge. Performance evaluation results show that using the proposed mechanism instead of the existing mechanism enhances the number of completed trips and reduces carbon emissions. The number of trips is enhanced by 50.4 % on average. The carbon emissions is reduced by 89.6 % on average.

    Keywords: Stratospheric platforms, Aerospace applications, Future transport, Intelligent systems, cargo transport, environment, Carbon reduction

    Received: 04 Jun 2024; Accepted: 07 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Periola, Olaseinde and Ogidan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Ayodele Periola, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa
    Timothy Olaseinde, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, 2092, Gauteng, South Africa

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