Barriers to the Development of Smart Cities in Indian Context

Nripendra P. Rana (), Sunil Luthra (), Sachin Kumar Mangla (), Rubina Islam (), Sian Roderick () and Yogesh K. Dwivedi ()
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Nripendra P. Rana: Swansea University Bay Campus
Sunil Luthra: State Institute of Engineering and Technology
Sachin Kumar Mangla: University of Plymouth
Rubina Islam: The University of Salford
Sian Roderick: Swansea University Bay Campus
Yogesh K. Dwivedi: Swansea University Bay Campus

Information Systems Frontiers, 2019, vol. 21, issue 3, No 2, 503-525

Abstract: Abstract Smart city development is gaining considerable recognition in the systematic literature and international policies throughout the world. The study aims to identify the key barriers of smart cities from a review of existing literature and views of experts in this area. This work further makes an attempt on the prioritisation of barriers to recognise the most important barrier category and ranking of specific barriers within the categories to the development of smart cities in India. Through the existing literature, this work explored 31 barriers of smart cities development and divided them into six categories. This research work employed fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique to prioritise the selected barriers. Findings reveal that ‘Governance’ is documented as the most significant category of barriers for smart city development followed by ‘Economic; ‘Technology’; ‘Social’; ‘Environmental’ and ‘Legal and Ethical’. In this work, authors also performed sensitivity analysis to validate the findings of study. This research is useful to the government and policymakers for eradicating the potential interferences in smart city development initiatives in developing countries like India.

Keywords: Smart cities; Barriers; Fuzzy AHP; Sensitivity analysis; Prioritisation; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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