Advances in Smart Cities

Smarter People, Governance, and Solutions

Arpan Kumar Kar, M P Gupta, P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan, Yogesh K. Dwivedi

• Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781351652117
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Data Mining
• Index: Computer Science

This is an edited book based on the selected submissions made to the conference titled "International Conference in Smart Cities". The project provides an innovative and new approach to holistic management of cities physical, socio-economic, environmental, transportation and political assets across all domains, typically supported by ICT and open data.

Contents

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Preface

Editors

Contributors

1. Understanding Smart Cities: Inputs for Research and Practice

Arpan Kumar Kar, Syed Ziaul Mustafa, Manmohan Prasad Gupta, P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan and Yogesh K. Dwivedi

2. How Do Smart Cities Influence Governance? A Descriptive Literature Review

Sumedha Chauhan and Neetima Agarwal

3. Smart People for Smart Cities: A Behavioral Framework for Personality and Roles

Shristi Gupta, Syed Ziaul Mustafa and Harish Kumar

4. Self-Sustainable Integrated Township: A Resource-Based Planning to Improve the Quality of Urban Life

Sahil Singh Kapoor

5. Adoption and Acceptance of Mandatory Electronic Public Services by Citizens in the Developing World: Three Case Studies from India

Harjit Singh, Arpan Kumar Kar and P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan

6. Role of Manufacturing Sector to Develop Smart Economy: A Competitiveness Study between India and China

Manoj Kumar Singh, Harish Kumar and Manmohan Prasad Gupta

7. Concept of Smart Village in India: A Proposed Ecosystem and Framework

Sheshadri Chatterjee and Arpan Kumar Kar

8. Smart City: An Integrated Approach Using System Dynamics

Alok Raj and Gourav Dwivedi

9. Smart City Technologies: An Oversell Product of Global Technology Companies or the Ultimate Solution to the Challenges Persisting in Urban India

Alok Tiwari

10. A Cloud-Based Mobile Application for Cashless Payments to Enhance Transportation Mobility in India

Arunava Ghosh

11. Financial Viability of Energy Conservation Using Natural Light in an Institutional Building in India

Pooja Sharma and Dibakar Rakshit

12. Management of Multidimensional Risk for Digital Services in Smart Cities

Syed Ziaul Mustafa and Arpan Kumar Kar

13. M-Commerce in Smart Cities: Changing Mindsets of Individuals, Organizations, and Society

Himanshu Agarwal and Gaurav Dixit

14. The Shift toward a Sustainable Urban Mobility through Decision Support Systems

Valeria Caiati, Salvatore Di Dio, Francesco Ferrero and Andrea Vesco

15. Low-Carbon Logistics Network for Smart Cities: A Conceptual Framework

Harpreet Kaur and Surya Prakash Singh

Index

Preface

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There has been a massive focus on “smart cities,” both in developed and emerging economies in recent times. Europe, the United States, and several Asian countries (e.g., Korea and Japan) have been leading smart city development. Attempts have been made to deploy an assortment of smart technologies to make a new city livable, that is, safe, more comfortable, and secure. Underneath lies a complex web of issues that keep city managers busy, and which broadly boil down to transforming a city into a sustainable city. This transformation refers to a new scenario defined by clean and surplus energy, modern living in serene surroundings, and a real-time response system to meet needs or deal deftly with emergency situations (terror attacks, natural calamities, or accidents).

Digital services, transportation, energy, and natural resource management are central themes of all smart city projects. Clean energy is a major concern all over the world. Germany, in particular, has been quite aggressive in revising its energy policy from demand to supply and in shifting from centralized to distributed generation to replace overproduction and avoidable energy consumption with energy-saving measures and increased efficiency. Smart technologies are vital in energy production and consumption as they enhance our capacity multifold to deal with the challenges. Digital services, which may provide residents access to utilities and services over the Internet, are increasingly gaining prominence.

Following these trends, other nations have also announced similar programs. Today, China and India are in focus as they deal with a variety of complex problems arising from irreversible urbanization trends across all cities. They therefore offer vast business opportunities for proven smart city solutions. The Government of India (GoI) has announced the launch of 100 smart cities across the nation to fulfil a dream of maximizing urbanization without overburdening the ecosystem that exists in major cities. However, these attempts are not greenfield projects, but are mostly brownfield projects. The focus is on whether, by using enablers such as information and communication technologies, smart technologies, sensors, process reengineering and governance, productivity, and resource utilization could be optimized for sustenance. However, there are enormous challenges in implementing the vision of restructuring and reengineering the economy within such urban settlements so that the best utilization of resources and maximization of productivity may be achieved by leveraging enablers such as technology. This edited book, titled Advances in Smart Cities: Smarter People, Governance and Solutions, is a compilation of studies that contribute to creating a better understanding of smart cities in terms of critical issues and concerns surrounding governance, processes, and policies, which may make such a focused effort successful.

The book is organized into 15 chapters, contributing to 4 distinct themes. First, we introduce readers to the concept and perspectives through which research and development in smart cities could be analyzed and categorized. Subsequently, readers are exposed to some of the key needs of the residents of such smart cities, and how such needs can be serviced. A lot of discussion has centered on how urban life may be improved by better understanding of needs and better governance. This is followed with discussions on the public policies and governance issues surrounding smart city planning and development. Readers are exposed to holistic insights, developed through comparative analysis of best practices and frameworks that may be adopted for governance. Furthermore, much discussion provides perspectives on the potential scope of development through smarter governance. The next section focuses on introducing readers to some of the solutions and governance of such solutions that may be needed for smarter cities. The focus of such solutions has been to leverage the best practices that are enabled through different technologies and provide extraordinary benefits across domains such as digital services, logistics and mobility, and mobile-based economic activity, among others.

To meet this objective, the editors planned a research conference for attracting the best ideas that could be converted into chapters for this book. To meet this objective, the International Conference on Smart Cities was organized at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi on January 22, 2016. This conference was a joint academic effort between IIT Delhi, Swansea University, and Waterford Institute of Technology, and was supported by Beyond Evolution Tech Solutions and Unnat Bharat Abhiyan. The conference was coorganized by the EU-India Cooperation Platform in Future Internet and Electronic Media project (EU-INDIA FI-MEDIA) and FIWARE Mundus. From over 34 very high- quality research presentations chosen from over 50 submissions after peer review, the editors finally chose 14 articles that contributed significantly to enriching the knowledge and understanding surrounding smart cities. On behalf of the editorial team, we take this opportunity to thank our sponsors and supporters, who made this conference—and hence the realization of this edited book—a success. The enormous support from our hosting department (Management Studies) and our colleagues cannot be expressed in words. However, we thank our esteemed colleagues in our department and in other departments/ centers of IIT Delhi for making this initiative successful and for supporting us in all our stages of academic endeavors. A special mention goes to Professor Sushil (Deputy ...

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