Understanding user representations, a new development path for supporting Smart City policy: Evaluation of the electric car use in Lorraine Region

The smart city notion provides an integrated and systematic answer to challenges facing cities today. Smart city policy makers and technology vendors are increasingly stating their interest in human-centered smart cities. On the other hand, in many studies smart city policies bring forward a one-size-fits-all type of recommendation for all areas in question instead of location-specific ones. Based on the above considerations, this paper illustrates that smart citizen characteristics, alongside local urban challenges, are paving the way towards more effective efforts in smart city policy decision making. Our main presumption is that the development level of human-centered indicators of smart cities varies locally. The scientific objective of this paper is to find a simple, understandable link between human smart characteristics and local determinants in Limassol city, Cyprus. The data set consists of seven indicators defined as human smart characteristics and seven which determine local urban challenges consisting of demographic dynamics and built infrastructure attributes based on housing. Correlations of the 14 above indicators are examined in entirety and separately, as the study area was divided into three spatial sub-groups (high, moderate, and low coverage areas) depending on dispersed urbanization, as the main challenge of the study area. The data were obtained mainly from the most recent population census in 2011 and categorized in sub-groups by triggering CLC 2012. Analyzing the statistics using principal component analysis (PCA), we identify significant relationships between human smart city characteristics, demographic dynamics and built infrastructure attributes which can be used in local policy decision making. Spatial variations based on the dispersed urbanization are also observed regarding the above-mentioned relationships.

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CLSI ANNOUNCES A NEW DEVELOPMENT PATH

VINE ◽

10.1108/eb040370 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 40-42

Keyword(s):

Development Path ◽

New Development

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Health Impact Assessment of Two Transport Policies in Rotterdam, Netherlands: Decrease of Traffic and Increase of Electric Car Use

ISEE Conference Abstracts ◽

10.1289/isee.2014.p2-466 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2014 (1) ◽

pp. 2110

Author(s):

Myriam Tobollik* ◽

Menno Keuken ◽

Pierpaolo Mudu

Keyword(s):

Impact Assessment ◽

Health Impact Assessment ◽

Health Impact ◽

Car Use ◽

Electric Car

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The Smart City is landing! On the geography of policy mobility

GeoScape ◽

10.2478/geosc-2018-0013 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 124-133

Author(s):

Lucia Hýllová ◽

Ondřej Slach

Keyword(s):

Smart City ◽

Policy Making ◽

Urban Policy ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Specific Context ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Urban City ◽

Time Space ◽

Spatial Level ◽

City Policy

Abstract The aim of this paper is to provide a geographical urban policy perspective on the strategy of Smart Cities in the specific context of Czechia. Considering that the implementation of the Smart Cities (SC) concept is still relatively young in Czechia, it is highly relevant to examine the time-space diffusion of this concept in Czechia in the geographical lens: where the first initiative to build a smart city started, when the process was started and by whom; in other words, to provide basic empirical evidence of understanding the policy mobility and implementation of smart city policy into the urban development strategies. In the first of our approach, we evaluate the implementation of the term “smart city” in strategic city documents. The next step is the analysis of the strategic urban (city) and smart city documents by distinguishing conceptually distinct pillars of the SC concept and an overview of actors and policy-makers who initiate and support individual pillars of the concept of SC in Czechia. The results of the analysis highlight the differences between the implemented SC topics into city strategies which are caused by fragmented policy mobility, its modifications and influence of key actors who have found the opportunity to participate in policy-making processes at the certain spatial level.

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What determines the success of economic transition? Constructing regional advantage for Eastern and Western European regions

Acta Oeconomica ◽

10.1556/032.2020.00009 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 70 (2) ◽

pp. 163-194

Author(s):

Korneliusz Pylak ◽

Elżbieta Wojnicka-Sycz ◽

Piotr Sycz

Keyword(s):

Economic Transition ◽

Gdp Growth ◽

European Regions ◽

Related Factors ◽

Development Path ◽

Successful Transition ◽

Eu Member States ◽

New Development ◽

Regional Advantage ◽

Knowledge Intensive

AbstractThe aim of this paper is to identify the differences in the determinants of successful transition (understood as the creation of a new development path) between the eastern and the western EU Member States between 1994 and 2014 and elaborate assumptions for a strategy of constructing regional advantage for them at the NUTS2 level. We find that the regional transition requires individual approaches to using comparative advantage at the beginning of the process and then competing with specific advantages that can be consciously constructed throughout the process. Therefore, we hypothesise that a successful transition requires constructing regional advantages based on the knowledge-related factors, leading to specialisation in the knowledge-intensive industries. Furthermore, we state that the way of constructing such advantages differs across the regions. All of our hypotheses were confirmed. Both groups of regions had different comparative advantages at the beginning of the period and constructed competitive advantage based on related knowledge-intensive industries, leading to their specialisation. Interestingly, although the process of building regional advantage was similar, the factors used to create it were different, had a different impact on GDP growth and led to a different specialisation.

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IMPLEMENTASI KEBIJAKAN SMART CITY DALAM MEWUJUDKAN KUALITAS PELAYANAN PUBLIK DI KOTA TANGERANG

PAPATUNG: Jurnal Ilmu Administrasi Publik, Pemerintahan dan Politik ◽

10.54783/japp.v3i3.316 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 61-75

Author(s):

Syamsul Bahri ◽

Khasan Effendy ◽

Ngadisah ◽

Sampara Lukman

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technology ◽

Communication Technology ◽

Smart City ◽

Public Services ◽

Standard Operating Procedure ◽

Standard Operating ◽

Effective Level ◽

Information And Communication ◽

City Policy ◽

Descriptive Method

The problems that arise in this research are related to the implementation of policy policies in realizing quality public services in in Tangerang City which focuses on the use of information and communication technology via the internet, online, digital and social media. The research method used is descriptive method with a qualitative approach. The results showed that the implementation of the smart city policy in realizing quality public services in Tangerang City could not be implemented effectively in improving the welfare of the community in fact from the factors that influence including; (1) communication that affects all existing indicators, and skills indicators are still not effective; (2) Relevant resources from all the existing indicators, and lack of effective skills in the provision of facilities and infrastructure needed; (3) The related disposition of all the existing indicators, and the less effective level of trust taken by the leadership; (4) Bureaucratic structures related to all existing indicators, and which are still less effective and instructive according to the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).

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