All Outputs (117)

Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe (2023)
Journal Article
Chrysoulakis, N., Ludlow, D., Mitraka, Z., Somarakis, G., Khan, Z., Lauwaet, D., …Holt Andersen, B. (2023). Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 16251. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-43371-9

The urban community faces a significant obstacle in effectively utilising Earth Observation (EO) intelligence, particularly the Copernicus EO program of the European Union, to address the multifaceted aspects of urban sustainability and bolster urban... Read More about Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe.

Driving urban transitions - Digital-twin solutions (2023)
Book Chapter
Ludlow, D. (in press). Driving urban transitions - Digital-twin solutions. In E. Lissandrello, J. Sorensen, K. Olesen, & R. Steffansen (Eds.), The ‘New Normal’ in Planning, Governance and Participation - Transforming Urban Governance in a Post-pandemic World. Springer

This book offers a unique and timely contribution, informed by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, to unpack the intertwined challenges that planning needs to cope with in the future. It's argues that the pandemic and post-pandemic periods, in the su... Read More about Driving urban transitions - Digital-twin solutions.

Towards digital-twin solutions for the 15 minute city (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Ludlow, D., Khan, Z., Chrysoulakis, N., & Mitraka, Z. (2023). Towards digital-twin solutions for the 15 minute city. In 2023 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE). https://doi.org/10.1109/jurse57346.2023.10144161

The Covid-19 pandemic and the climate emergency have re-emphasised the need to re-evaluate urban governance and planning process in cities. The "new-normal"and digital transformations offer catalysts to drive and deliver climate mitigation in cities.... Read More about Towards digital-twin solutions for the 15 minute city.

Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe: Final results from the CURE project (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Chrysoulakis, N., Ludlow, D., Mitraka, Z., Somarakis, G., Khan, Z., Lauwaet, D., …Holt Andersen, B. (2023, April). Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe: Final results from the CURE project. Presented at European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria

A major challenge for the urban community is the exploitation of Earth Observation intelligence in managing in the multidimensional nature of urban sustainability towards enhancing urban resilience, particularly in relation to the challenges of clima... Read More about Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe: Final results from the CURE project.

Co-creation pathways to inform shared governance of urban living labs in practice: Lessons from three European projects (2021)
Journal Article
Mahmoud, I. H., Morello, E., Ludlow, D., & Salvia, G. (2021). Co-creation pathways to inform shared governance of urban living labs in practice: Lessons from three European projects. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 3, Article 690458. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2021.690458

Over recent decades Urban Living Labs (ULLs) have become a common space for co-creation processes' experimentation, whereby new approaches for sustainable urban development are highly connected to support evidence-based policy generation. Europe seem... Read More about Co-creation pathways to inform shared governance of urban living labs in practice: Lessons from three European projects.

Exploring alternative pathways toward more sustainable regional food systems by foodshed assessment – City region examples from Vienna and Bristol (2021)
Journal Article
Vicente-Vicente, J. L., Doernberg, A., Zasada, I., Ludlow, D., Staszek, D., Bushell, J., …Piorr, A. (2021). Exploring alternative pathways toward more sustainable regional food systems by foodshed assessment – City region examples from Vienna and Bristol. Environmental Science and Policy, 124, 401-412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.07.013

The resilience of the food supply system has become a vital issue for many countries especially under substantial international supply disturbances (e.g. the effects of COVID-19 restrictions). Regionalizing diets and increasing food self-sufficiency... Read More about Exploring alternative pathways toward more sustainable regional food systems by foodshed assessment – City region examples from Vienna and Bristol.

Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions: Results of SSPCR 2019—Open Access Contributions (2021)
Book
Bisello, A., Vettorato, D., Ludlow, D., & Baranzelli, C. (Eds.). (2021). Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions: Results of SSPCR 2019—Open Access Contributions. Springer (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57764-3

This open access book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions”, held in December 2019 in Bolzano, Italy, and explores the concept of s... Read More about Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions: Results of SSPCR 2019—Open Access Contributions.

Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe: The CURE project (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Chrysoulakis, N., Mitraka, Z., Marconcini, M., Ludlow, D., Khan, Z. A., Holt Andersen, B., …Feigenwinter, C. (2020). Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe: The CURE project. In N. Chrysoulakis, Y. Zhang, & T. Erbertseder (Eds.), . https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2577125

Towards smart cities development: A study of public transport system and traffic-related air pollutants in Malaysia (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Brohi, S., Pillai, T. R., Asirvatham, D., Ludlow, D., & Bushell, J. (2018). Towards smart cities development: A study of public transport system and traffic-related air pollutants in Malaysia. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Volume 167, 8th International Conference on Environment Science and Engineering (ICESE 2018) 11–13 March 2018, Barcelona, Spain. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/167/1/012015

Increasing number of privately owned vehicles are depicting Malaysians preferred mode of mobility and lack of interest in the public transport system. In most developing countries such as Malaysia, motorized vehicles are the major contributors to air... Read More about Towards smart cities development: A study of public transport system and traffic-related air pollutants in Malaysia.

Smart Mobility Cities: Connecting Bristol and Kuala Lumpur project report (2018)
Report
Asirvatham, D., Brohi, S. N., Xion, T. E., Theng, T. G., Fei, N. J., Kaur, S., …Bushell, J. (2018). Smart Mobility Cities: Connecting Bristol and Kuala Lumpur project report

Financed by the British Council Institutional Links program this Smart Mobility Cities project has opened a fascinating window on a journey of discovery linking Bristol and Kuala Lumpur. This journey was in part directed towards the realisation of Sm... Read More about Smart Mobility Cities: Connecting Bristol and Kuala Lumpur project report.

Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study (2017)
Journal Article
Soomro, K., Khan, Z., & Ludlow, D. (2017). Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study. International Journal of Services Technology and Management, 23(5-6), 419-444. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSTM.2017.10009859

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 plan... Read More about Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study.

From top-down land use planning intelligence to bottom-up stakeholder engagement for smart cities – A case study: DECUMANUS service products (2017)
Journal Article
Ludlow, D., Khan, Z., Soomro, K., Marconcini, M., José, R. S., Malcorps, P., …Metz, A. (2017). From top-down land use planning intelligence to bottom-up stakeholder engagement for smart cities – A case study: DECUMANUS service products. International Journal of Services Technology and Management, 23(5-6), 465-493. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSTM.2017.10009861

Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Intelligence delivered by earth observation (EO) satellites performs a vital role in supporting ICT enabled urban governance, and the creation of decision making tools delivering integrated urban plannin... Read More about From top-down land use planning intelligence to bottom-up stakeholder engagement for smart cities – A case study: DECUMANUS service products.

Tracking the virality of news in Smart Cities (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Hasham, K., Soomro, K., & Ludlow, D. (2017, December). Tracking the virality of news in Smart Cities. Paper presented at The 4th International Workshop on Smart City Clouds: Technologies, Systems and Applications., Texas, USA

Effective communication with citizens is an important goal of smart cities. To this end the digital age offers many mechanisms to not only enable timely communication, but also bilateral communication. Mechanisms such as blog posts and online press r... Read More about Tracking the virality of news in Smart Cities.

Towards a smart learning environment for smart city governance (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Hammad, R., & Ludlow, D. (2016). Towards a smart learning environment for smart city governance. In UCC '16 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (185-190). https://doi.org/10.1145/2996890.3007859

Copyright © 2016 ACM. Educational services provided to various stakeholders need to be actively developed to accommodate the diversity of learning models and to get the advantages of available resources (e.g. data) in smart cities governance. Despite... Read More about Towards a smart learning environment for smart city governance.

Using space-based downstream services for urban management in smart cities (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Garzon, A., Palacios, M., Pecci, J., Khan, Z., & Ludlow, D. (2014, December). Using space-based downstream services for urban management in smart cities. Paper presented at International Workshop on Smart City Clouds: Technologies, Systems and Applications in conjunction with 7th IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), London, UK

Data collected through remote sensing (for instance geo-satellite) provides necessary stimulus for developing smart solutions for climate change & public health, energy efficiency and land monitoring in an urban environment. The velocity, variety, vo... Read More about Using space-based downstream services for urban management in smart cities.

Exploring population distribution and motion dynamics through mobile phone device data in selected cities – lessons learned from the UrbanAPI project (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Peter-Anders, J., Loibl, W., Züger, J., Khan, Z., & Ludlow, D. (2014, May). Exploring population distribution and motion dynamics through mobile phone device data in selected cities – lessons learned from the UrbanAPI project. Paper presented at REAL CORP 2014, Vienna

The paper discusses experiences of development and implementation of public motion explorer (PME) tool as part of the EU FP7 project urbanAPI. This tool has been applied to three EU cities with the objective to investigate population distribution dyn... Read More about Exploring population distribution and motion dynamics through mobile phone device data in selected cities – lessons learned from the UrbanAPI project.

ICT enabled participatory urban planning and policy development: The UrbanAPI project (2014)
Journal Article
Khan, Z., Ludlow, D., Loibl, W., & Soomro, K. (2014). ICT enabled participatory urban planning and policy development: The UrbanAPI project. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 8(2), 205-229. https://doi.org/10.1108/TG-09-2013-0030

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to present the effectiveness of participatory information and communication technology (ICT) tools for urban planning, in particular, supporting bottom-up decision-making in urban management and governance. Design/me... Read More about ICT enabled participatory urban planning and policy development: The UrbanAPI project.

Applying the CoReS requirements development method for building IT tools for urban management systems: The UrbanAPI project (2013)
Journal Article
Khan, Z., David, L., & Wolfgang, L. (2013). Applying the CoReS requirements development method for building IT tools for urban management systems: The UrbanAPI project

Gathering and managing requirements from stakeholders is an essential task for the successful development of IT tools for any application domain. However, specifying stakeholders’ requirements for a collaborative research and development project in t... Read More about Applying the CoReS requirements development method for building IT tools for urban management systems: The UrbanAPI project.

Evaluating a collaborative IT based research and development project (2013)
Journal Article
Khan, Z., Ludlow, D., & Caceres, S. (2013). Evaluating a collaborative IT based research and development project. Evaluation and Program Planning, 40, 27-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2013.04.004

In common with all projects, evaluating an Information Technology (IT) based research and development project is necessary in order to discover whether or not the outcomes of the project are successful. However, evaluating large-scale collaborative p... Read More about Evaluating a collaborative IT based research and development project.

UrbanNexus at the crossroads (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Ludlow, D., Graham, J., & Blanes, N. (2013, July). UrbanNexus at the crossroads. Paper presented at Planning for resilient cities and regions, Joint AESOP/ASCP Congress, University College, Dublin, 15-19 July 2013, University College, Dublin