TITLE:
The Necessity of Using Cloud Computing in Monitoring Metropolitan Performance-Case Study: Tehran Metropolitan Urban Observatory
AUTHORS:
Ali Madad, Ali Reza Gharagozlou, Ali Reza Vafaei Nejad
KEYWORDS:
Metropolitan Management; Urban Observatory; SDSS; OGC; Web GIS; Cloud Computing
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Geographic Information System,
Vol.5 No.6,
December
11,
2013
ABSTRACT: Due to the metropolitan area of
immense diversity and breadth of their construction activities, the performance
of activities at districts level, cannot be precisely evaluated. Therefore,
generally, it monitors only the indices which are defined for those functions.
Furthermore, district-based development policy, and decentralization of
governance, necessitate more local autonomy, which requires closer monitors of districts for being sure of
its movements in the frame of urban developing plans. The advancement of
technology has created the expectation that we can monitor all details of the
metropolitan administrative processes and involve them in decision support
systems for urban management. In this study, a web based SDSS prototype has
been implemented to monitor the Tehran development plans progress at districts
level. This interactive system presents a map of Tehran which indicates the
realization of each component of the city master plan in different parts of town. The design of system
lets all districts produce and support their own reporting maps, and it presents them in their dedicated
place of city map by snapping all districts reports, when a city report arises. Also it
elaborates the problem of implementing and proposes “cloud computing facilities” as a solution.