Information Integration in a Smart City System—A Case Study on Air Pollution Removal by Green Infrastructure through a Vehicle Smart Routing System

Jules Muvuna, Tuleen Boutaleb, Slobodan B. Mickovski, Keith Baker, Ghoreyshi Seyed Mohammad, Mario Cools and Wissal Selmi
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Jules Muvuna: School of Engineering and Built Environment, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Rd, Glasgow G4 0BA, UK
Tuleen Boutaleb: School of Engineering and Built Environment, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Rd, Glasgow G4 0BA, UK
Slobodan B. Mickovski: School of Engineering and Built Environment, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Rd, Glasgow G4 0BA, UK
Keith Baker: School of Engineering and Built Environment, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Rd, Glasgow G4 0BA, UK
Ghoreyshi Seyed Mohammad: Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton, University Road, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
Mario Cools: Urban and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Liège, Local Environment Management & Analysis (LEMA), Allée de la Découverte9, Quartier Polytech 1, BE-4000 Liège, Belgium
Wissal Selmi: Urban and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Liège, Local Environment Management & Analysis (LEMA), Allée de la Découverte9, Quartier Polytech 1, BE-4000 Liège, Belgium

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 12, 1-14

Abstract: Over the past few years, the ‘‘smart city’’ concept has emerged as a new trend to answer challenging issues related to urban development. Transformation of a city system into a smart system is meant to improve the quality of life for its people and their way of living, its environment, economy, transport, and governance. Due to benefits associated with the concept of the smart city and associated implementation challenges, traditional city systems have been undergoing transformation into smart city systems. However, observed approaches of transformation presented disconnected and fragmented city systems that usually hamper the interaction of city subsystems with the efficient and environmentally friendly urban environment. This work emphasizes the systematic view of a city system and proposes a novel method of smart city system integration. The results of our study show that in a smart city environment, where ecosystem services are valorised, air pollution emitted by vehicles can be removed by taking into consideration information related to air pollution reduction. A case study is presented to demonstrate that, with an integrated system, information outputs on travel decisions are different and more valuable. The case study explores the operability of the system, its limitations, and potential future improvements.

Keywords: smart city; information integration; air pollution; vehicle smart routing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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