Contents
FOREWORD
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Roadmap to a smart city
Melbourne Smart City Smart cities Why the smart city? NEW urban user experience
SMART CITY AS A SYSTEM Melbourne’s GHG emissions profile Smart behavioural change Melbourne as smart city Smart city strategies Feedback loops Example project ideas Next steps
PROJECT IDEAS ONE : 100 GREEN OASES TWO: Seamless mobility THREE: REAL-TIME CITY MODEL SMART CITY CASE STUDIES WORKSHOP VISUALISATIONS THE WORKSHOP ITSELF
Particular focus was placed on the possibilities of enabling behavioural change via community engagement using contemporary information and communications technologies (ICT) .
Arup’s Smart City Framework indicates how ‘urban informatics’ can be engaging public interfaces onto the city and its behaviour, whilst ‘urban information architecture’ can address the organisational layers behind these interfaces. ... Taken together, all three layers describe how a city’s governance, operations and experience might be transformed, as part of an over-arching resilient urban sustainability strategy.
Feedback loops in urban activity;
Urban activity is instrumented and monitored by sensors, which feeds data to an organisational layer or model, which is then fed back via informatics, such as that it can affect urban activity i.e. modify the operation of infrastructure (re-route trams to where demand exists, for example) or inform citizens about environmental qualities, and so on.
Project ideas of Melbourne;
100 GREEN OASES Connected sensor networks monitor the performance of Melbourne’s green infrastructure (‘oases’) in real-time, indicating their value whilst enabling deeper engagement from volunteers and users.
SEAMLESS MOBILITY A genuinely integrated mobility system, connecting Melbourne’s installed transit infrastructure together via information, generating strategic data, whilst upgrading the transit experience.