Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study

Soomro, Kamran; Khan, Zaheer; Ludlow, David

Abstract

Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. This paper presents some results from an EU FP7 RTD project urbanAPI, in which three ICT applications target different aspects of participatory urban governance. The 3D Scenario Creator allows urban planners to visualise urban development proposals in three dimensions, share them with different stakeholders and obtain their feedback. The Mobility Explorer allows urban land use and transport planners to visualise and analyse population distribution and mobility patterns in the city. Finally, the Urban Development Simulator simulates socio-economic activity in response to alternative planning scenarios. These urbanAPI ICT applications are implemented in four pilot cities; Vienna (Austria), Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain), Bologna (Italy) and Ruse (Bulgaria), and evaluated with respect to their various requirements. Results show that the applications are useful tools, enhancing spatial planning assessements, and enabling public participation, communicating proposed plans to different stakeholders and identifying key development issues which can provide crucial inputs in planning and decision making processes.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 8, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Jan 3, 2018
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2017
• Deposit Date: Jun 17, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 21, 2018
• Journal: International Journal of Services, Technology and Management
• Print ISSN: 1460-6720
• Electronic ISSN: 1741-525X
• Publisher: Inderscience
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 5-6
• Pages: 419-444
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSTM.2017.10009859
• Keywords: smart cities, participatory governance, urbanapi
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/903518
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJSTM.2017.10009859
• Contract Date: Jun 17, 2016