Cities are becoming digital and aiming to be sustainable. How they combining the two is not always apparent from outside. What we need a look inside. In recent years, cities have increasingly called themselves Smart City. This can mean different things, but generally includes towards new technologies claim that City has various advantages for its citizens, roughly in line with demands of sustai...

Sustainability has become an important objective of city logistics management. Smart city, being a technology and data driven paradigm for city’s sustainable development, entailed new research opportunities from different perspectives. It is foreseeable that smart will keep evolving in the domain logistics, which plays key role this game changing evolution. Recent field characterised by interdi...

Cities are places where people, meet, exchange, work, live and interact. They bring people with different interests, experiences and knowledge close together. They are the centres of culture, economic development and social change. They offer many opportunities to innovate with technologies, from the infrastructures that underlie the sewers to computing in the cloud. One of the overarching goal...

Environmental pollution and greenhouse gas emissions are becoming significant environmental issues in China, thus the sustainable development and revival of the country is impossible using the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment. In response to the global warming, the prices of the traditional energy rise considerably, and a series of environmental...

Car-orientated modal splits represent problems for the city in economic, environmental and social terms. The implementation of policies and other measures can fail if the causes are not well recognized. Mid-sized cities in Mexico are not well-represented in studies where only the capital and other bigger cities are studied. This research aims to recognize those causes focusing on northern midsi...

In a Smarter City, available resources are harnessed safely, sustainably and efficiently to achieve positive, measurable economic and societal outcomes. Data (and then information) from people, systems and things is the single most scalable resource available to City stakeholders but difficult to publish, organize, discover and consume, especially in a real-time context. Enabling City informati...

Products and services offered under the smart city umbrella cut across numerous city operations and systems that benefit a range of stakeholders. Increasing urban populations raise the needs for innovative systems that are capable of regulating the use of resources within cities. City inhabitants are first-hand victims of the potential problems accompanying urban living. Much often, the inputs ...