Transcript Smart Cities - Texas Research Alliance

Smart Cities
Dr. Geoffrey Orsak
What is a Smart City?
• Many definitions of a Smart City: commonalities?
• Improving quality of life of citizens
• Improving city efficiency
• Relying on data, and leveraging technology, especially Information Communication Technologies
throughout the city
• A Smart City is an efficient data driven enterprise that uses technology to
improve city functions while increasing the quality of life for citizens.
Benefits of being a Smart City?
• 60% of the worlds population is forecasted to live in cities by 2050.
• The smart city industry is projected to be a $400 billion market by 2020.
• 600 cities around the globe expected to generate 60% of the world's GDP by
2025.
• Cities will experience an increasing strain on their resources as the urban
population grows.
• Practical use of ICTs and other smart city technologies looks to proactively
find and prevent social and economic issues caused by urban density.
Elements of a Smart City Project
• Governance
• How does the project relate to participation
• Human Capital
• To people
• Environment
• Topics for Discussion Today
• Infrastructure
• Public Safety
• Sustainable Development
• Data Analytics
• To natural resources and sustainability
• Living
• To quality of life
• Economy
• To competitiveness
• How do these topics fit into the elements
of a Smart City
#SmartColumbus
• The #SmartColumbus campaign is built
around using technology to improve five
areas:
• access to jobs
• tourism (connected visitors)
• logistics
• connecting citizens
• sustainable transportation
• Just awarded $40M of funding from
Department of Transportation
• Raised $81M of private and in-kind funding
• City contributed $19M
• Smart Corridor to Provide Access to Jobs
• Additional system wide service information
via smart phone apps.
• Add Mobileye technology to COTA buses
(system wide).
• Install Smart intersection technology on
corridor to enhance Mobileye Self-Driving
vehicles servicing Easton Office/Shopping
Park addressing first and last mile
connection issue from transit center
Smart City: Kansas City
• Using advances in technology to change
the way cities work
• Goals of Smart City Initiative
• to improve the delivery of City services
• to enhance the citizen experience
• to support entrepreneurship and economic
development
Kansas City’s Smart City Corridor
• 2 mile-long street car route
• One of the first economic development
projects credited to the City’s modern
streetcar.
• Residents will now have free access to
cutting-edge technologies
• Free public Wi-Fi
• Smart streetlights
• Smart traffic signals
• Interactive kiosks
Other Smart Cities
National
International
• Chicago, IL
• Barcelona, Spain
• Atlanta, GA
• Singapore
• Austin, TX
• Seoul, Korea
• San Francisco, CA
• Vancouver, Canada
• Seattle, WA
• Medellin, Columbia
Becoming a Smart City
• Identify citizen centric issues to resolve.
• Develop a plan with key partners and stakeholders.
• Find solutions that address multiple issues.
• Collect and use data to improve technologies benefiting citizens.
• Collaboration is vital:
• Utilize university research
• Create public-private-industry partnerships
• Cultivate citizen participation and buy-in
Resources
• Jason Doss Flickr Account
• Grote, Dora; No need to wonder where streetcar is: Kiosks now offer tracker maps, July
11, 2016; http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2016/07/11/kansas-citystreetcar-kiosks-tracker-maps.html
• Maddox, Teena; Smart cities: The smart person's guide, May 12, 2016,
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/smart-cities-the-smart-persons-guide/
• City of Kansas City, Mo, Kansas City launches world’s most connected Smart City,
http://kcmo.gov/news/2016/kansas-city-launches-world-most-connected-smart-city/
• The City of Columbus, #SmartColumbus, https://www.columbus.gov/smartcolumbus/
• Albino, Vito; Berardi, Umberto; Dangelico, Rosa Maria; Smart Cities: Definitions,
Dimensions, Performance, and Initiatives, Journal of Urban Technology, 2015, Vol.22,
No.1, 3-21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2014.942092