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Eighth ITU Symposium on ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change. Turin, 6-7 May 2013
Posted on: 14 May 2013
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The Symposium was dedicated to the theme of Smart Sustainable Cities and it focused on the issue of ICTs, the environment and climate change in the world and the needs for smart green ICT technologies. Topics discussed included, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, e-waste, disaster preparedness, cost-effective ICT technologies, methodologies for the environmental impact assessment of ICTs, ICT technologies for smart cities and smart societies, challenges and opportunities in the transition to a green and resource efficient economy. Presentations are available online.
Impact study on intelligent mobility: A sustainability impact framework and case analysis of energy and environment
Posted on: 29 April 2013
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Governments and industry around the world are beginning to recognize the potential of intelligent transport systems (ITS) to transform the future of mobility across all modes and infrastructures. This report builds on the idea of intelligent mobility. Achieving intelligent or ‘smart mobility’ where travelers are able to plan and execute their journeys seamlessly and optimize the full range of mobility services has become enabled by ITS technologies that provide a set of strategies for advancing transportation safety, mobility, and environmental sustainability.
Delivering London 2012
Posted on: 26 April 2013
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The Institution of Engineering and Technology has published two reports which identify and demonstrate the innovation, legacy, best practice and lessons learned from the ICT delivery of the Games. The first publication was issued before the Games and the second, following the Games.
Smart phone apps for urban design and urban life
Posted on: 18 March 2013
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Lists some useful applications for smart phones with regard to urban design and urban living.
Guidelines for intelligent transport systems
Posted on: 14 March 2013
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The Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) has issued a set of guidelines on ways to implement three key aspects of intelligent transport systems in urban areas: travel information, travel management and smart ticketing. These guidelines, which include a set of good practices shared by European cities, were developed by an expert group set up by the European Commission.
The role of ICT for energy efficient buildings: A contribution to Horizon 2020. Brussels, 28 February 2013
Posted on: 14 March 2013
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ICT4E2B Forum partners presented their project’s final results about the role of ICT for Energy efficient buildings to an audience of over 120 attendees. The project funded by DG CONNECT and developed within the framework of the Energy-efficient Buildings Public Private Partnership (EeB PPP) initiative, has performed a deep analysis of the research challenges and innovation priorities that ICT will have to address in future. These recommendations have been duly taken into account in the new Roadmap developed by E2BA towards a possible continuation of the EeB PPP within Horizon 2020. Presentations and background reports and information are available online.
Modus
Posted on: 30 January 2013
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The most recent issue of the RICS journal Modus (December 2012/January 2013) takes a closer look cutting-edge virtual technologies in surveying and celebrate the new frontiers that they are creating. Includes an article which reports on the use of BIM in three very different projects.
Smart cities of the future
Posted on: 9 January 2013
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This article, which appears in an issue of The European Physical Journal Special Topics (Vol.214, November 2012), outlines the rudiments of what constitutes a smart city which the authors define as a city in which ICT is merged with traditional infrastructures, coordinated and integrated using new digital technologies. The authors first sketch their vision defining seven goals which concern: developing a new understanding of urban problems; effective and feasible ways to coordinate urban technologies; models and methods for using urban data across spatial and temporal scales; developing new technologies for communication and dissemination; developing new forms of urban governance and organisation; defining critical problems relating to cities, transport, and energy; and identifying risk, uncertainty, and hazards in the smart city. They also define six scenarios based on new cities badging themselves as smart, older cities regenerating themselves as smart, the development of science parks, tech cities, and technopoles focused on high technologies, the development of urban services using contemporary ICT, the use of ICT to develop new urban intelligence functions, and the development of online and mobile forms of participation. Finally the authors anticipate the paradigm shifts that will occur in this research and define a series of key demonstrators which we believe are important to progressing a science of smart cities.
Lean Data Governance Machine
Posted on: 28 November 2012
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This paper provides an outline of the Lean Data Governance approach and demonstrates the considerations at each step of the implementation. This paper provides guidance for: Individual business units responsible for data management; Managers with responsibility for data and information management processes; Businesses that are implementing or have already implemented traditional Lean at an enterprise level; Businesses that have no immediate intention of Lean implementation at an enterprise level but need to review their data governance programme.
Advanced construction and building technology for society. Montreal, 24 October 2012
Posted on: 28 November 2012
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Proceedings of a workshop held by the CIB Working Commission W119 on Customized Industrial Construction are available online. The workshop involved international researchers, practitioners and selected top-students from eight different professional backgrounds (Architecture, Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Business Science, Interior Design, Informatics, Mechanical Engineering).
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