TITLE:
Smart City: A Mobility Technology Adoption Framework Incorporating Surface-Level Technical Analysis
AUTHORS:
Farish Jazlan, Ramin Saedi, Ali Zockaie, Mehrnaz Ghamami, Michelle Boucher, Hediye Tuydes-Yaman, Mehdi Ganji, Andrea Marr
KEYWORDS:
Smart Campus, Smart Mobility, Smart Transportation, Electric Vehicle Charging Stations, Electric Autonomous Shuttles, Electric Buses
JOURNAL NAME:
Current Urban Studies,
Vol.10 No.3,
September
14,
2022
ABSTRACT: Rising urban population, aging infrastructure, and increasing capital
maintenance costs call for more efficient use of limited available resources.
To address these concerns, the use of technology for urban infrastructure
management and operational efficiency comes naturally with emerging
technological advancements. Although there
have been analyses on how to conceptually design a smart city from the ground
up, they are often less applicable in transforming existing cities into
smart ones. Retrofitting existing infrastructures
requires integration and synergies with existing systems. Given the broad
scope of smart cities, this paper equips planners with surface-level
considerations in adopting smart mobility solutions. This provides an avenue to
assess project feasibility, risk management, and
investment requirement. The process is presented via a replicable framework with a use case with simplistic approaches that do not require complex
constraints or modeling. The framework streamlines how to deduce a
feasible set of user-centric smart solutions, which are then ranked according
to their impacts for implementation priority.
Middle East Technical University campus located in Ankara (Turkey) is
considered for the use case. The main outcomes for the use case are deducing
high-impact smart solutions based on the proposed framework. Preliminary system
design analyses are showcased for three high-ranked solutions: electric vehicle
charging station installation and investment optimization, autonomous electric
shuttle system design, and bus network electrification strategies.