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SMART CITIES: PROJECTS CATALOGUE 22 PROJECTS in 21 CITIES Deliverable 1B SMART CITIES: PROJECTS CATALOGUE 22 PROJECTS IN 21 CITIES Deliverable 1B ASCIMER PROJECT WORK PACKAGE 1. PART 2 30TH JANUARY 2015 Bank Supervisor: Gerry Muscat (EIB) Project Leader: Andres Monzon (TRANSyT-UPM) Coordinator: Fiamma Perez-Prada (TRANSyT- UPM) Authors: Victoria Fernandez-Anez (TRANSyT- UPM) Guillermo Velazquez-Romera (TRANSyT-UPM) Contributors: Javier Dorao (TRANSyT- UPM) Andrea Torregrosa (TRANSyT-UPM) Mario Martin (TRANSyT-UPM) Gianni Rondinella (TRANSyT-UPM) Collaborators: ASCIMER team Javier Uceda (UPM) Jose Maria de Lapuerta (UPM) Rosa Arce (TRANSyT-UPM) Maria E. Lopez-Lambas (TRANSyT-UPM) Claudio Feijoo (UPM) Sergio Ramos (UPM) Manuel Alvarez-Campana (UPM) Jose Manuel Vassallo (TRANSyT-UPM) Experts Sergio Jara (U. Chile) Jose Miguel Fernandez-Güell (UPM) Mario Aymerich (EIB) Guy Fleuret (UfM) Paul Pfaffenbichler (Vienna University of Technology) Angela Poletti (Politecnico di Milano) Filippo Contenti (Malaga City) Brini Abdellatif (Tanger City) Ali Maqousi (UoP) Lourdes Diaz (National School for Sustainable Land Use Planning) Smart City Best Practices Guide ASCIMER PROJECT WORK PACKAGE 1 CONTENTS PART 2 SMART CITIES: BEST PRACTICES GUIDE 0. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY………………………………………….1 2.3. SMART CITY PROJECTS IN SOUTH MEDITERRANEAN REGION…………………………………………………………..86 1. SMART CITY PROJECT ACTIONS………………………………7 1.1. INTRODUCTION…………………………………………….9 2.4. BEST PRACTICES IN SMART CITY STRATEGIES…………….... 93 1.2. BACKGROUND…………………………………………….11 1.3. SMART GOVERNANCE PROJECT ACTIONS……….....13 3. REFERENCES…………………………………………………………… 99 1.4. SMART ECONOMY PROJECT ACTIONS……………….15 1.5. SMART MOBILITY PROJECT ACTIONS………………….18 ANNEX I: CLASSIFICATION OF SMART CITY PROJECT ACTIONS…101 1.6. SMART ENVIRONMENT PROJECT ACTIONS…………..22 1.7. SMART PEOPLE PROJECT ACTIONS……………………25 1.8. SMART LIVING PROJECT ACTIONS…………………….28 1.9. SMART CITY PROJECT SUBACTIONS…………………...32 2. SMART CITY BEST PRACTICES…………………………………39 2.1. BACKGROUND……………………………………………41 2.2. BEST PRACTICES IN SMART CITY PROJECTS………….41 2.2.1. Governance………………………………...……...42 2.2.2. Economy…………………………………………….48 2.2.3. Mobility ……………………………...………………54 2.2.4. Environment ………………………...……………...64 2.2.5. People ………………………………..……………..76 2.2.6. Living …………………………………..…………….80 Smart city concept 0. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Smart CitIes: Best Practices Guide 1 2 Smart City Best Practices Guide 0. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY common point to all of them, the key factor of the Smart City projects has been identified to be the use of ICT. According to the previous study about the Smart City concept and the challenges cities According to these criteria, project actions must face, a Best Practices Guide has been have been defined as seen in table 1. The developed. different Project Actions have been described and put into relation with the various city This guide is divided in two different chapters. Participation Network and environmental The first chapter offers a conceptual approach monitoring that aims to serve as orientation through the Transparency and information Energy efficiency possibilities of development of Smart City accessibility projects in the different dimensions already Urban planning and urban refurbishment explained . In the second chapter, and through Public and Social Services Smart buildings and building the analysis of extensive literature on the topic renovation Smart Environment and the research developed about existing Smart Governance Multi-level governance Resources management Smart City Projects, a guide of Smart City Environmental protection Project Actions has been developed. The Innovation Digital education selection of projects included will be enlarged through the next two years of the project, Entrepreneurship Creativity including new projects, specially the ones analyzed through the field visits. Local & Global ICT - Enabled working interconnectedness Smart city project actions Productivity Community building and Smart People Smart Economy urban life management E Once that the concept of Smart City and the Flexibility of labor market Inclusive society facing challenges are already defined, a systematic approach to the possibilities of Traffic management Tourism action of the Smart City projects has been Public Transport Culture and leisure developed. ICT Infrastructure Healthcare The Smart City concept has changed from the Logistics Security execution of specific projects to the Accessibility Technology accessibility implementation of global strategies to tackle Smart Mobility Clean, non-motorised options Welfare & Social inclusion city challenges. Thus, it is necessary to get a Smart Environment comprehensive overview of the possibilities and Multimodality Public spaces management to relate them to the city challenges. As a Smart CitIes: Best Practices Guide 3 Table 0. Smart City Project Actions. challenges identified in Part 1. about the possible actions to take, as well as specific examples of on-going Smart City In a second step, Smart Projects that are being Projects that can respond to these challenges developed in cities have been grouped in the are this way localized. different dimensions. Smart City strategies comprehend a combination of these As being part of the Smart City Strategy has subactions. Smart City Project Actions are also been identified as a key element for a City composed by more concrete subactions, that Project to become Smart, some of the most are deeply interwoven. The aim of this second outstanding Mediterranean Smart City phase is to widen the panel of possibilities of Strategies. This part of the guide will also be action and to present an approach that is expanded through the complete ASCIMER closer to implementation. project. Finally the last section of the guide includes a Best Practices Guide preliminary study (already presented in the ASCIMER First Workshop in July 2014) on Smart The Best Practices Guide is an information tool Cities in the South Mediterranean Region. This for cities that want to take advantage of the short study aims at establishing the context for ICTs and solve their challenges through Smart the development of Smart City actions in the City Projects. region and also at describing common implementation problems as well as the main The guide links city challenges with a wide types of projects already implemented. range of Smart Projects designed to solve them. It is a tool for developing Smart Cities that efficiently respond to complex and diverse urban challenges without compromising their sustainable development and while improving the quality of life of their citizens. This Best Practices Guide provides a series of matrices which serve as a tool for decision- making. These matrices relate city challenges with the specific actions designed to tackle them. Therefore, once specific city problems are identified, the guide provides information 4 Smart City Best Practices Guide Go1a Mo6a En2a En3a Mo2a Ec2a PLi2a Mo2a En2a PLi2a En5b. Mo2a En5b Mo6a En2c Mo1b Mo2b Go1a Go3a Figure 0. Smart City Projects Map. Smart CitIes: Best Practices Guide 5 6 Smart City Best Practices Guide 1. SMART CITY PROJECT ACTIONS Smart CitIes: Best Practices Guide 7 8 Smart City Best Practices Guide 1. SMART CITY PROJECT ACTIONS It is also important to define what characteristics urban projects must have to be defined as Smart City projects. 1.1 INTRODUCTION The European Parliament determined that "To Once that the concept of Smart City and the be classified as a Smart City, a city must contain facing challenges are already defined, a at least one initiative that addresses one or systematic approach to the possibilities of more of the following characteristics: Smart Governance, Smart People, Smart Living, Smart action of the Smart City projects has been The Smart City concept has changed developed. Through the analysis of extensive Mobility, Smart Economy and Smart from the execution of specific projects literature on the topic and the research Environment"1 . This sometimes is not enough, to the implementation of global developed about existing Smart City Projects, a since it is necessary to have several initiatives of guide of Smart City Project Actions has been intelligent projects that touch many action fields strategies to tackle city challenges. developed. to consider that a city has become Smart , Thus, it is necessary to get a even though it is not necessary to have the comprehensive overview of the The objective of this relation of project actions is whole 6. The boundary is unclear and depends possibilities and to relate them to the also to deliver a comprehensive overview on each city and each group of initiatives. city challenges. The key factor of the about the different kind of projects that can be included in a Smart City. The wideness of the The Smart City concept has changed from the Smart City projects is the use of ICT. term and the lack of definitions of the different execution of specific projects to the fields, together with the lack of maturity of the implementation of global strategies to tackle projects, makes it also necessary to develop city challenges. This change in approach analysis methodologies for the description and makes necessary that the mentioned city guidance within the diversity of possibilities and strategies were designed from a holistic cases of Smart City projects. perspective including projects in different city dimensions: Governance, Mobility, Most of the Smart City projects have a relatively Transportation, Energy, People and short history and often the correspondence Environment. between their impacts
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