“…Urban computing could help the cities in addressing the challenges through incremental solution-driven smart development. The areas of urban computing research in Saudi Arabia are mainly health applications including COVID-19 pandemic ( Al-Jehani et al., 2021 ; Alomari et al., 2021a ; Alotaibi et al., 2020 ), big data and smart mobility ( Alomari et al., 2021b ; Alharbi et al., 2021 ; Al-Nabhan et al., 2021 ; Aljoufie and Tiwari, 2022 ), cybersecurity and IoT ( Alhalafi and Veeraraghavan, 2021 ; Alanazi and Soh, 2020 ; Choo et al., 2021 ), and NEOM ( Nuseir et al., 2020 ; Alotaibi et al., 2019 ).…”