The Road toward Smart Cities: Migrating from Traditional City Management to the Smart City

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauricio Bouskela
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
City Management ◽  
The Road

YOUTH EXPECTATIONS OF SMART CITY LIVING: AN IMPORTANCE- PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF YOUNG RESIDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES OF CITY GOVERNMENT

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-128
Author(s):  
Jason Cohen ◽  
Judy Backhouse ◽  
Omar Ally
Keyword(s):  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
City Government ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
City Management ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The City

Young people are important to cities, bringing skills and energy and contributing to economic activity. New technologies have led to the idea of a smart city as a framework for city management. Smart cities are developed from the top-down through government programmes, but also from the bottom-up by residents as technologies facilitate participation in developing new forms of city services. Young people are uniquely positioned to contribute to bottom-up smart city projects. Few diagnostic tools exist to guide city authorities on how to prioritise city service provision. A starting point is to understand how the youth value city services. This study surveys young people in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, and conducts an importance-performance analysis to identify which city services are well regarded and where the city should focus efforts and resources. The results show that Smart city initiatives that would most increase the satisfaction of youths in Braamfontein  include wireless connectivity, tools to track public transport  and  information  on city events. These  results  identify  city services that are valued by young people, highlighting services that young people could participate in providing. The importance-performance analysis can assist the city to direct effort and scarce resources effectively.

City Competitiveness and Infrastructure

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Ahmet Bulut
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
City Management ◽  
Controlled Experiments ◽  
Rigorous Analysis ◽  
Decision Level ◽  
Specific Policy ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
New Framework

This chapter introduces a new framework called “I3: Instrument, interconnect, and cultivate intelligence framework.” This framework can be used to drive the transformation of today’s not so smart cities into the smart cities of tomorrow. In i3, instrumentation is used to collect data, which is important, because data provides measurability, and measurement can lead to improvement. Interconnection in i3 is used to discover associations and relationships between seemingly independent subsystems in a city. In i3, controlled experiments are easily setup and run to test each individual policy. The intelligence bit in i3 comes from being able to test specific policy hypotheses and conduct rigorous analysis and synthesis of the integrated data. The i3 framework helps city officials and researchers discover valuable knowledge, make informed decisions based on the results of various policies that are put in place, and facilitates the culture of experimentation at every policy decision level. The overarching goal in i3 is to discover routine and well-structured patterns in city management operations, turn them into best practices, and finally automate the execution of such practices so that the framework itself can take a major responsibility over city management. In this chapter, a roadmap is provided as a guideline for policymakers to successfully deploy i3 in their jurisdiction. By using i3 continually, a regular city can be transformed into a smart city faster.

scholarly journals An Hybrid Approach for Urban Traffic Prediction and Control in Smart Cities

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (24) ◽  
pp. 7209
Author(s):  
Janetta Culita ◽  
Simona Iuliana Caramihai ◽  
Ioan Dumitrache ◽  
Mihnea Alexandru Moisescu ◽  
Ioan Stefan Sacala
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Flow ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Problem Definition ◽  
Urban Traffic ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
City Management

Smart cities are complex, socio-technological systems built as a strongly connected System of Systems, whose functioning is driven by human–machine interactions and whose ultimate goals are the well-being of their inhabitants. Consequently, controlling a smart city is an objective that may be achieved by using a specific framework that integrates algorithmic control, intelligent control, cognitive control and especially human reasoning and communication. Among the many functions of a smart city, intelligent transportation is one of the most important, with specific restrictions and a high level of dynamics. This paper focuses on the application of a neuro-inspired control framework for urban traffic as a component of a complex system. It is a proof of concept for a systemic integrative approach to the global problem of smart city management and integrates a previously designed urban traffic control architecture (for the city of Bucharest) with the actual purpose of ensuring its proactivity by means of traffic flow prediction. Analyses of requirements and methods for prediction are performed in order to determine the best way for fulfilling the perception function of the architecture with respect to the traffic control problem definition. A parametric method and an AI-based method are discussed in order to predict the traffic flow, both in the short and long term, based on real data. A brief comparative analysis of the prediction performances is also presented.

scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence Applications to Smart City and Smart Enterprise

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2944 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donato Impedovo ◽  
Giuseppe Pirlo
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
City Management ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
Social Big Data ◽  
Areas Of Interest

Smart cities work under a more resource-efficient management and economy than ordinary cities. As such, advanced business models have emerged around smart cities, which have led to the creation of smart enterprises and organizations that depend on advanced technologies. In this Special Issue, 21 selected and peer-reviewed articles contributed in the wide spectrum of artificial intelligence applications to smart cities. Published works refer to the following areas of interest: vehicular traffic prediction; social big data analysis; smart city management; driving and routing; localization; and safety, health, and life quality.

scholarly journals Smart Governance of City’s Culture: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-19
Author(s):  
Rytis Milkintas
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
General Level ◽  
City Management ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Cultural Field ◽  
City Culture

The goal of the research is to prepare a theoretical model of smart cultural governance and to evaluate the smart cultural management of Šiauliai city according to it. The background of creating a smart culture governance model is to define the theoretical constructs of smart city and smart culture management by looking for correlations between these concepts in order to closely link cultural management with the implementation of cultural policy in city management processes and to highlight the specifics of smart cultural management. A systematic model of a smart city is formed and presented, of which cultural management is an integral part. The model highlights the links between cultural management and other dimensions of the smart city. The theoretical model of smart culture management, which was adapted to investigate the expression of smart culture management in Šiauliai city, is presented. This kind of research has not been done so far in analyzing smart culture management in Šiauliai city. The need for the research was inspired by culture specialists of Šiauliai City Municipality Administration and heads of cultural institutions. The qualitative content analysis of theoretical sources of foreign countries and Lithuania was conducted as well as in-depth interviews to collect information that was processed through qualitative content analysis and systematized using matrices. The assessment of model expression based on the informants’ attitudes enabled the researcher to draw substantive conclusions.The research is relevant to Šiauliai city culture field institutions (private, subordinate municipality, subordinate to the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania), Šiauliai city culture field policymakers. In a broader sense, the improvement in the quality of the intelligent social system highlighted in the study will significantly contribute to the general level of culture in Šiauliai. These positive changes will be experienced by the recipients of cultural services.Further research in the field of smart city cultural management is planned to analyze not only the situation of Šiauliai city but also the cultural field of Lithuania as a whole, in connection with the practices of the international cultural field. It is planned to study the smoothness of the transformation of cultural field institutions, adaptation to smart cultural management, and the emerging challenges. Further research is planned to analyze the scientific studies prepared by smart cities, to look for specific actions highlighted in them, challenges for the cultural sector in adapting to the gradual transformation of cities into smart cities.

scholarly journals The «smart city» concept: fixing key concepts in the context of providing the development of a big municipality

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 24-34
Author(s):  
A. O. Andriіenko
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
City Management ◽  
City Formation ◽  
Strategic Direction ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Smart Community ◽  
The One ◽  
And Control

The article reveals the content and explores the conceptual-categorical apparatus of the problem of the «smart city» formation on the territory of a large municipal entity. The classification of big municipalities, aimed at their services (communal, educational, medical, public) ‘smartization’, by type, is given. It is determined that smart cities are considered by the world scientific community from two positions: on the one hand, as objects of the spontaneous socio-economic movement, which cannot always be directed in a given strategic direction; on the other hand, as a managerial category – cities that effectively use all available information for better understanding and control of their functions and optimal use of resources available, including the potential of residents. A system of factors, the development of which is aimed at forming the foundations of a smart city, is given. The basis for developing such a system is the concept of sustainable development. Accordingly, the complex of the following factors influencing the ‘smartization’ of urban development is presented: technological (determines the level of development and public availability of digital technologies in urban services); human (creates a space for creativity, learning, obtaining and generating knowledge); economic (outlines the limits of economic capacity of the city, the coordination of economic tasks with social priorities and environmental needs); institutional (forms the basis for proper management of the city’s integrated development, promotes the development of the smart community and the attraction of intellectual capital). The criteria for meeting the goals of smart city management that outline the content and determine the directions of smart administration on the basis of sustainability are given; the factors of the formation of such a city (institutional, social, economic, technological) are presented and structured; accordingly, the concept of «smart city» is defined through the prism of institutional, social, economic, technological and integrated managerial approaches.

scholarly journals With Geospatial in Path of Smart City

2015 ◽  
Vol XL-7/W3 ◽  
pp. 1381-1387 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. S. Homainejad
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Aerial Images ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
City Management ◽  
Traffic Jam ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road

With growth of urbanisation, there is a requirement for using the leverage of smart city in city management. The core of smart city is Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and one of its elements is smart transport which includes sustainable transport and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). Cities and especially megacities are facing urgent transport challenge in traffic management. Geospatial can provide reliable tools for monitoring and coordinating traffic. In this paper a method for monitoring and managing the ongoing traffic in roads using aerial images and CCTV will be addressed. In this method, the road network was initially extracted and geo-referenced and captured in a 3D model. The aim is to detect and geo-referenced any vehicles on the road from images in order to assess the density and the volume of vehicles on the roads. If a traffic jam was recognised from the images, an alternative route would be suggested for easing the traffic jam. In a separate test, a road network was replicated in the computer and a simulated traffic was implemented in order to assess the traffic management during a pick time using this method.

scholarly journals AN INITIATIVES-BASED FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING SMART CITY

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmin Mohd Adnan ◽  
Hasniyati Hamzah ◽  
Melasutra Md. Dali ◽  
Md Nasir Daud ◽  
Anuar Alias
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Quantitative Assessment ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
City Management ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Management And Development ◽  
The City ◽  
Better Than

Smart Cities have grown in prominence due to advancement in ICT and the new paradigm of sustainable city management and development. Whilst many authors have proposed guidelines and framework for Smart City implementation, less attention has been given to the assessment of Smart City performance. The mainstream Smart City assessment framework generally entails the quantitative assessment of factors, elements and initiatives categorised under the Smart City dimensions. However, this approach is problematic and impractical because it requires a large amount of different baseline data that is often at times unavailable due to various reasons. This paper describes an alternative framework for smart city assessment, one that is based on the modification of Giffmger’s to make it amenable to leaner data. The proposed assessment framework was adopted to assess the smart city performances of Seoul, Singapore, and Iskandar Malaysia which were then compared. With the use of the framework for the performance assessment, the city that has performed better than the others is able to be identified.

Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Smart Agriculture

2021 ◽  
pp. 277-288
Author(s):  
Suresh Sankaranarayanan
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Autonomous Robots ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
City Management ◽  
Latency Reduction ◽  
Smart Agriculture ◽  
Growing Population

Smart cities is the latest buzzword towards bringing innovation, technology, and intelligence for meeting the demand of ever-growing population. Technologies like internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), edge computing, big data, wireless communication are the main building blocks for smart city project initiatives. Now with the upcoming of latest technologies like IoT-enabled sensors, drones, and autonomous robots, they have their application in agriculture along with AI towards smart agriculture. In addition to traditional farming called outdoor farming, a lot of insights have gone with the advent of IoT technologies and artificial intelligence in indoor farming like hydroponics, aeroponics. Now along with IoT, artificial intelligence, big data, and analytics for smart city management towards smart agriculture, there is big trend towards fog/edge, which extends the cloud computing towards bandwidth, latency reduction. This chapter focuses on artificial intelligence in IoT-edge for smart agriculture.

scholarly journals Smart Cities on the Agenda of Integration Associations

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-105
Author(s):  
S. G. Kamolov ◽  
S. S. Glazyeva
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Universal Theory ◽  
City Management ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Technical Standards ◽  
Eurasian Economic Union ◽  
Economic Union

Introduction. The article gives an overview of integration associations’ policy for smart city development. The existing rates of urbanization and the growth of the economic weight of cities give rise to new challenges and opportunities, which for the developed integration associations can no longer be considered exclusively at local or national levels. Consequently, there is a growing demand from integration associations for the formation of common approaches to smart city management. The authors examine the efforts of the European Union and the Association of South East Asian Nations undertaken for the development of smart cities and give recommendations for the Eurasian Economic Union.Materials and methods. The methodologi­cal basis of the study includes the following gen­eral scientific methods of cognition of processes and phenomena: an analytical approach, qualitative analysis and comparative analysis. The examined materials include official documents of integration associations, analytical reports of international organizations and studies of domestic and foreign scientists.The choice of the research topic is justified by the urbanization rates with the increasing importance of public management quality and drafting of a long-term agenda for the development of agglomerations. Smart cities become interested in managerial cooperation with other cities, harmonization of approaches and exchange of best practices. The universal theory of smart cities is to yet formed, but in real life, efforts are already being made to develop a common knowledge and experience base: smart cities create platforms for interaction, sign agreements, draw ratings and develop management and technical standards. Some integration groups already began to single out smart cities as a separate area of their activity. We can forecast that the topic of smart cities will become the key one for all integration  associations,  including  EAEU.  For Russia, as for a country that is currently developing its own standards for managing smart cities, this issue is of fundamental importance: cooperation with the countries of the Union can serve as an additional source of knowledge and experience and will create strategic opportunities and advantages for the domestic IT industry.Results. The European Union and the Association of South East Asian Nations were the first to put the issue of smart city development on the agenda. Meanwhile, these organizations have taken two different paths: the EU is simultaneously working on a whole set of initiatives to develop common approaches and standards for smart city approaches and standards. ASEAN is so far limited to having a platform for financial and informational assistance to particular cities. Discussion and conclusions. Within the formation of the common digital space for the EAEU, the issue of joint development of smart cities should  be included into the integration agenda. The experience of the EU and ASEAN may be useful for the Eurasian Economic Union, whose interest in smart cities is just beginning to emerge. The simultaneous creation of a platform of smart cities and the development of common standards could become a positive step in this field. 

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