Using Traditional and New Digital Technology Tools to Promote Sustainable Mobility: Current Trends in the Evolving Transformation of the Smart City

2017 ◽  
pp. 113-133
Author(s):  
Efthimios Bakogiannis ◽  
Maria Siti ◽  
Charalampos Kyriakidis ◽  
Avgi Vassi
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Technology Tools

scholarly journals Modeling and Visualizing Smart City Mobility Business Ecosystems: Insights from a Case Study

Information ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Faber ◽  
Sven-Volker Rehm ◽  
Adrian Hernandez-Mendez ◽  
Florian Matthes
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Design Science ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Ecosystem Models ◽  
Business Ecosystem ◽  
Proactive Management ◽  
Business Ecosystems

Smart mobility is a central issue in the recent discourse about urban development policy towards smart cities. The design of innovative and sustainable mobility infrastructures as well as public policies require cooperation and innovations between various stakeholders—businesses as well as policy makers—of the business ecosystems that emerge around smart city initiatives. This poses a challenge for deploying instruments and approaches for the proactive management of such business ecosystems. In this article, we report on findings from a smart city initiative we have used as a case study to inform the development, implementation, and prototypical deployment of a visual analytic system (VAS). As results of our design science research we present an agile framework to collaboratively collect, aggregate and map data about the ecosystem. The VAS and the agile framework are intended to inform and stimulate knowledge flows between ecosystem stakeholders in order to reflect on viable business and policy strategies. Agile processes and roles to collaboratively manage and adapt business ecosystem models and visualizations are defined. We further introduce basic categories for identifying, assessing and selecting Internet data sources that provide the data for ecosystem models and we detail the ecosystem data and view models developed in our case study. Our model represents a first explication of categories for visualizing business ecosystem models in a smart city mobility context.

scholarly journals Prototyping sustainable mobility practices: user-generated data in the smart city

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan-Miguel Valdez ◽  
Matthew Cook ◽  
Per-Anders Langendahl ◽  
Helen Roby ◽  
Stephen Potter
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Sustainable Mobility

scholarly journals A Post-Corona Perspective for Smart Cities: ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go?’

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 9988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saskia Sassen ◽  
Karima Kourtit
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban System ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Healthy City ◽  
City Life ◽  
Technology Tools ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
And Control

This exploratory essay aims to provide a reflection on the possible implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for urban development and to sketch a plausible picture of the urban future. It serves as an introductory contribution to the Special Issue of this journal on ‘happy and healthy cities’, with particular emphasis on the implications of COVID-19 in pluriform cities. There is no doubt that contemporary cities are growing, and have become more dynamic and crowded. The more people, the bigger the challenges are to manage urban growth and to cope with—and control—density frictions, such as pandemics (e.g., COVID-19). Cities have the task to satisfy the essential needs of many heterogeneous people and to develop appropriate people-based strategies in order to make or keep people happy and healthy. The current COVID-19 disaster is a real urban challenge. The deployment of smart cities’ strategies and the use of digital technology tools in order to capture and provide intelligent internal and external online information and communication opportunities may help cities—in active partnership with their residents (‘smart citizens’ voice’)—to manage shocks and disruptions in the urban system. Clearly, cities are dynamic and adaptive organisms with a high resilience capacity. A key question addressed in this paper is whether urban inhabitants may be inclined to move out of the city due to human health threats, or whether intelligent digital technology tools will be able to overcome the current challenges to the ‘urban way of life’. The paper argues that modern information and communication technology offers a range of opportunities for a healthy city life, so that the COVID-19 pandemic will most likely not lead to a massive demographic outflow from urban agglomerations to less densely populated areas in particular rural areas. Instead, what is called the ‘corona crisis’ may cause just a ripple in the permanent dynamic evolution of cities.

scholarly journals Research Trends of Smart City in Indonesia: Where Do We Go from Here?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andika Sanjaya ◽  
Swante Adi Krisna ◽  
Tatas Bayu Mursito ◽  
Supriyadi
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Positive Trend ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Social Media Monitoring ◽  
The Government ◽  
Media Monitoring

The concept of the smart city is described as a solution of the urban problems. The Indonesian government has initiated to develop 100 smart cities by 2019, but there is still inadequate research about Indonesian case. Here, we have conducted a research to find current trends about smart city study in Indonesia. We identified the author background, the academic discipline of the author, the year, the research location, the most frequently-used words, and the most-cited technologies of Indonesian research about the smart city. We used content analysis and word frequency analysis to answer the questions. The government, academic, and business agency have joined the study, while other stakeholders may join too. There are varied academic disciplines which animate the examination. The year 2016 may be the opening of a positive trend, but there is still inadequate research locations covered. The noticeable most-frequently-used words are government, public, information, technology, and data. Then, the necessary technologies are the applications, infrastructure, Internet, e-government, and big data. Also, in the future, we need a research about a mobile-based smart city or social media monitoring and analytics.

scholarly journals Eurointegration tendencies in implementation of ‘Industry 4.0’ in European companies

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-261
Author(s):  
Andrea Seňová ◽  
Lucia Šebeščáková
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Business Organization ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Digital Disruption ◽  
External Risk ◽  
The Impact

The current level of technological development made it possible to predict upcoming changes, the expected commercial availability of breakthrough technologies and the impact they will have on business organization, manufacturing and labor market. The fourth industrial revolution, driven by automation, digital technology and Big Data, is expected to start in a few years. The number one external risk currently perceived by companies is digital disruption. The aim of the paper is to examine the current trends in terms of technological development and workforce transition for the preparedness of companies and labor market for the upcoming changes. The paper reviews the results of research, indicating the dominant orientation of companies, with regards to the expected digital disruption, trends shaping the fourth industrial revolution and strategies for preparation for the upcoming changes.

scholarly journals The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Pandemic of Lockdown Loneliness and the Role of Digital Technology (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Ghulam Sarwar Shah ◽  
David Nogueras ◽  
Hugo Cornelis van Woerden ◽  
Vasiliki Kiparoglou
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Technology Tools ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Social Disconnection

UNSTRUCTURED The focus of this perspective is on lockdown loneliness, which we define as loneliness resulting from social disconnection as a result of enforced social distancing and lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic. We also explore the role of digital technology in tackling lockdown loneliness amid the pandemic. In this regard, we highlight and discuss a number of the key relevant issues: a description of lockdown loneliness, the burden of lockdown loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic, characteristics of people who are more likely to be affected by lockdown loneliness, factors that could increase the risk of loneliness, lockdown loneliness as an important public health issue, tackling loneliness during the pandemic, digital technology tools for social connection and networking during the pandemic, assessment of digital technology tools from the end users’ perspectives, and access to and use of digital technology for tackling lockdown loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic. We suggest that the most disadvantaged and vulnerable people who are more prone to lockdown loneliness are provided with access to digital technology so that they can connect socially with their loved ones and others; this could reduce loneliness resulting from social distancing and lockdowns during the COVID-19 crisis. Nonetheless, some key issues such as access to and knowledge of digital technology tools must be considered. In addition, the involvement of all key stakeholders (family and friends, social care providers, and clinicians and health allied professionals) should be ensured.

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