scholarly journals Alerts and Notifications for Smart Citizens

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 03001
Author(s):  
Silviu Vert ◽  
Radu Vasiu
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Notification Data ◽  
Future Plans

Smart cities function on the premises of efficiency and transparency. One of the key requests of smart citizens is to be informed, through modern, digital and personalized means, of issues that might affect them: utility cut-offs, changes in public transportation, exceeding levels of pollutants and so on. In this research, we implement an extension — to an existing smart city notification platform — that consists of a notification and alert module build as a chatbot for Facebook Messenger. We describe the sources of notification data, how we designed the chatbot and current possibilities for users to interact with it and be notified. We also relate on future plans on improving the chatbot.

Internet of Things and the economics of smart sustainable cities

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 115-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Günter Knieps
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Packet Transmission ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite Systems ◽  
Wastewater Management ◽  
Virtual Networks ◽  
The Future

The major objective of this article is to analyze the potentials of information and communications technology (ICT) for the evolution of smart cities, with a particular focus on the challenges faced by traditional public utilities in the areas of public transportation, energy, water supply, and wastewater management due to the entry of new players originating from ICT organizations and industries. The character of virtual networks for smart cities is demonstrated based on three pillars: (1) All-IP–based real-time and adaptive broadband communication networks, (2) global navigation satellite systems and their overlay position correction networks, and (3) the interoperability of ubiquitous sensor network applications, as they form the ICT basis for a multitude of applications that are important in smart cities. The heterogeneity of virtual networks for different smart city physical network services is based on these pillars, taking into account the different requirements for the quality of service (QoS) of data packet transmission, geopositioning, and sensor networks. It can be expected that prosumer activities and resultant networked commons become increasingly relevant for the smart city of the future. However, the increasing role of prosumer activities cannot replace the role of markets in solving scarcity problems within ICT networks as well as physical networks. The role of congestion pricing and QoS differentiation for network capacities in transportation and electricity markets as well as ICT is indicated. If, due to non-rivalry in usage, efficient congestion prices are pointless, the future role of subsidies from the state is considered.

scholarly journals Internet of Things for the Development of Smart Cities

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 9543-9547
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
City Development ◽  
The Public ◽  
Innovative Solution ◽  
Energy Efficient Building

Internet of things plays an important role to make smart in all the areas like smart city, smart home etc [1]. It is used in more efficient water supply, an innovative solution for traffic congestion, to make reliable public transportation, improved the public safety, energy efficient building, Vehicle smart security system etc [4]. While the average cost for basic items is going up, there is a developing concentration to include innovation to bring down those costs for smart city development. In the following chapter will discussed the few innovation for the smart city development.

scholarly journals Snap4City Platform to Speed Up Policies

2021 ◽  
pp. 103-114
Author(s):  
Nicola Mitolo ◽  
Paolo Nesi ◽  
Gianni Pantaleo ◽  
Michela Paolucci
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Research Centers ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Aggregated Data ◽  
The Public ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Status

AbstractIn the development of smart cities, there is a great emphasis on setting up so-called Smart City Control Rooms, SCCR. This paper presents Snap4City as a big data smart city platform to support the city decision makers by means of SCCR dashboards and tools reporting in real time the status of several of a city’s aspects. The solution has been adopted in European cities such as Antwerp, Florence, Lonato del Garda, Pisa, Santiago, etc., and it is capable of covering extended geographical areas around the cities themselves: Belgium, Finland, Tuscany, Sardinia, etc. In this paper, a major use case is analyzed describing the workflow followed, the methodologies adopted and the SCCR as the starting point to reproduce the same results in other smart cities, industries, research centers, etc. A Living Lab working modality is promoted and organized to enhance the collaboration among municipalities and public administration, stakeholders, research centers and the citizens themselves. The Snap4City platform has been realized respecting the European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and it is capable of processing every day a multitude of periodic and real-time data coming from different providers and data sources. It is therefore able to semantically aggregate the data, in compliance with the Km4City multi-ontology and manage data: (i) having different access policies; and (ii) coming from traditional sources such as Open Data Portals, Web services, APIs and IoT/IoE networks. The aggregated data are the starting point for the services offered not only to the citizens but also to the public administrations and public-security service managers, enabling them to view a set of city dashboards ad hoc composed on their needs, for example, enabling them to modify and monitor public transportation strategies, offering the public services actually needed by citizens and tourists, monitor the air quality and traffic status to establish, if impose or not, traffic restrictions, etc. All the data and the new knowledge produced by the data analytics of the Snap4City platform can also be accessed, observing the permissions on each kind of data, thanks to the presence of an APIs complex system.

scholarly journals A SYNOPSIS OF ROMANIA’S SMART CITIES INNITIATIVES

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (30 (1)) ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
Darie Gavrilut ◽  
Diana Teodora Trip ◽  
Carmen Florina Fagadar ◽  
Daniel Badulescu
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
National Level ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Smart Governance ◽  
Areas Of Interest ◽  
The City

The term smart city is often associated with the desire for accelerated modernization of space and urban social interactions, especially based on Information and Communications Technologies. Smart cities are creative and sustainable areas that bring improvements on the quality of life, a friendlier environment and where the prospects of/for economic development are stronger. Such cities are to be considered as the sum of the various improvements in urban infrastructure, the quality of services provided to citizens, the operational costs of public administration. Romania has several key cities that have begun their pivot from regular and only digitized cities, to smart cities. According to information from the Romanian Smart City Association (ARSC), in 2018, at Romanian national level, 24 cities could be considered smart, the following cities being most visible in terms of how many projects have been undertaken so as to develop a smart city: Alba Iulia city has 60 such projects, Cluj-Napoca city has 10, Arad has 9, Sibiu and Oradea each have 8 projects, and Bucharest has started six such projects. At 2020 level, we notice an increase in the number of projects in the following way: Alba-Iulia now has 106 projects, Cluj-Napoca has 54 projects, Timisoara 26, Arad and Iasi have each 19 projects, Brasov and Bucuresti (Sector 4) have 18 projects each, Oradea 17, Sibiu 15, and Piatra Neamț 15 projects. The main areas of interest being Smart Mobility, Smart Governance, Smart Living, Smart Economy, Smart Environment, and Smart People. Having set goals of cutting energy costs by 30% in the field of public transportation and an increase of 45% in terms of innovation products that are to be sourced locally, the city of Oradea has attracted project worth 369 million euros, and this entire sum has been achieved through EU funded grants.

scholarly journals Smart City Technologies implemented in public transport in a post-COVID-19 pandemic scenario

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Garcia Figueirôa Ferreira ◽  
Tatiane Borchers ◽  
Ricardo Augusto Souza Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Data Protection ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
Perception Of Safety ◽  
Great Sense ◽  
One Year

With the global pandemic of COVID-19 completing one year, this paper intends to analyse the perceptions of public transport users about the implementation of smart city technologies. Two aspects were analysed, namely: the perception of safety regarding the use of surveillance technologies in the containment of the virus; and the perception of safety of the same technologies regarding data protection and privacy. After the identification and choice of initiatives in smart cities to be addressed, a questionnaire was prepared and made available online, in which 414 replies were considered for the final analysis, respecting the proportionality of the percentage of replies in each region to the respective population percentage. In general, technologies provide a great sense of security regarding the use of public transportation. However, they cause concern regarding data protection and privacy. From this result and with analyses in relation to the regulation of personal data, international experiences and the Brazilian reality were contrasted.

scholarly journals The Sustainable Development of Smart Cities: A Case Study of the Design of driverless bus stops in Zhengzhou

2021 ◽  
Vol 293 ◽  
pp. 03002
Author(s):  
Xiaoguang Chen ◽  
Jinting Sui ◽  
Xufeng Tai ◽  
Heqi Li
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Modular Design ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Smart Transportation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Bus Stops ◽  
The City

With the arrival of the “5G” era and the digital economy era, the development of the city has permeated all aspects of the city, and with the emergence of “smart city”, it is likely to have “smart” everywhere in the future city. At the same time, “Future Smart Transportation” was proposed as a discussion topic at the “2019 (8th) International Smart City Summit and Smart Ecology Expo”. The research and development of the driverless bus stops will spur the driverless bus stops to take on the past with a brand-new look, welcome the future, and contribute to the sustainable development of the smart city. Taking the driverless bus station in Zhengdong New District as an example, this paper explores the sustainable development of a smart city through the creation of manned (open)-shared (transition space)-driverless (semi-enclosed space) space and the introduction of modular design approach. To connect people’s work, life and transportation, and derive a new public transportation environment based on manned bus stops, namely, intelligence, sustainability, environmental friendliness and safety, thus create a smart transportation pilot to embrace the bright future of sustainable smart cities.

Big Data Analytics and Internet of Things for Urban Transportation

2019 ◽  
pp. 244-277
Author(s):  
Jyoti Chandiramani ◽  
Sushma Nayak
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
The Government

The idea of smart city has assumed popularity in numerous countries across the globe. In 2015, the Government of India embarked on a mission of creating 100 smart cities to sustain the burgeoning urban population. While a wide-ranging set of fundamentals has a key role in enhancing the quality of life of citizens, the chapter revolves around transportation issues and traffic management concerns in one of India's smart cities, Pune. Transport is one of the few areas where Pune lags behind compared to its urban counterparts in the country. Public transportation in the city has been ineffectual, and auto rickshaws have been unyielding and pricey, thus making it imperative to possess personal vehicles or resort to app-based cab services. A palpable outcome of this has been traffic congestion that leads to slower travelling speeds, extended trip times, and amplified vehicular queuing. Big data and IoT can make a considerable impact in realizing the smart city objectives for efficient transportation in Pune by serving as complementary measures to supply-side policies.

scholarly journals Perspectives of smart cities in South Africa through applied systems analysis approach: a case of Bloemfontein

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dillip Kumar Das
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
City Council ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Smart Governance ◽  
The City

There is a changed perspective regarding the development of cities and increasingly many countries in the West and some developing countries, as in South Africa, are making concerted attempts to transform their cities to smart cities. Using the context of the city of Bloemfontein, South Africa and drawing on the perceptions of stakeholders, the objective of the paper is to offer a perspective on such a transformation. The study first assessed the performance of various factors and attributes that influence three important aspects of a smart city: economy, mobility and governance system. It then recorded the viewpoints of stakeholders about how these aspects can contribute to the development of a smart city. Further, Applied Systems Analysis (ASA) linked System Dynamics (SD) conceptual models based on the interlinkage and causal feedback relationships among various factors under each aspect were developed, which could assist in offering perspectives that would enable eliciting of policy interventions to develop smart cities. Findings indicate that there are potentials and positive indicators in all three aspects. It is emerged that reinforcement of the inter-relationship among entrepreneurship, innovation, productivity, economic image and international embeddedness will foster a smart economy. Efficient public transportation and advancement of Information Communication Technology (ICT) system will strengthen local accessibility and ensure an innovative, sustainable and safe transportation system that will result in smart mobility. Effective participation of stakeholders in the decision-making process alongside the elected city council and transparency will aid smart governance. The combined effect of these attributes should enable the transformation of the city to a smart city.

scholarly journals Carpooling Platforms as Smart City Projects: A Bibliometric Analysis and Systematic Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 10680
Author(s):  
Leonidas G. Anthopoulos ◽  
Dimitrios N. Tzimos
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
High Occupancy Vehicle Lanes ◽  
Additional Value

Carpooling schemes for mutual cost benefits between the driver and the passengers has a long history. However, the convenience of driving alone, the increasing level of car ownership, and the difficulties in finding travelers with matching timing and routes keep car occupancy low. Technology is a key enabler of online platforms which facilitate the ride matching process and lead to an increase in carpooling services. Smart carpooling services may be an alternative and enrichment for mobility, which can help smart cities (SCs) reduce traffic congestion and gas emissions but require the appropriate architecture to support connection with the city infrastructure such as high-occupancy vehicle lanes, parking space, tolls, and the public transportation services. To better understand the evolution of carpooling platforms in SCs, bibliometric analysis of three separate specialized literature collections, combined with a systematic literature review, is performed. It is identified that smart carpooling platforms could generate additional value for participants and SCs. To deliver this value to an SC, a multi-sided platform business model is proposed, suitable for a carpooling service provider with multiple customer segments and partners. Finally, after examining the SC structure, a carpooling platform architecture is presented, which interconnects with the applicable smart city layers.

scholarly journals Towards Tawang Station Area as Smart Urban Railway Space

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-37
Author(s):  
Nurma Mediasri Huwaida ◽  
Agung Nugroho ◽  
Reivandy Christal Joenso
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
City Design ◽  
And Function ◽  
Space Concept

The purpose of this research is to analyze the possibility of implementing Smart Urban Railway Space concept in the development of Semarang Tawang Station area which is one of the entrance gates of Semarang tourists and has a high historical value. The area of Tawang station becomes an integral part of Semarang Old Town because of its adjacent location. This attachment is one potential that can be considered to grow the activity of the area into a tourism area and a business center. Increasing number of visitors can cause overcrowding. The crowded situation of visitors caused the lack of circulation so that the need for redesigning Tawang station area. A station area (public transportation) must be able to adapt to the environment and function needs for the visitor. Smart city design is about rethinking infrastructure, buildings and facilities as well as other infrastructure integrated to form smart cities and smart urban space.  Smart Urban railway space is a concept that integrates an architectural building with the surrounding open space. It is hoped that this concept can parse overcrowding and make the area of Tawang station a tourism area. Methods used are qualitative methods with a rationalistic approach. The result of this research is a recommendation of the Smart Urban Railway Space concept at Tawang station area which is expected to parse the overcrowding problem that occurred.

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