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Smart City Building and Sustainable Governance

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (4 November 2024) | Viewed by 2340

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Department of Management Theories, Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, University of Zilina, Univerzitna 8215/1, 010 26 Zilina, Slovakia
Interests: smart city; information technologies and system; management; IT service management

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Department of Management Theories, Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, University of Zilina, Univerzitna 8215/1, 010 26 Zilina, Slovakia
Interests: information technologies and system; smart city; business IT; management; digital marketing

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Department of Security Management, Faculty of Security Engineering, University of Zilina, Univerzitna 8215/1, 010 26 Zilina, Slovakia
Interests: transport risks; critical infrastructure protection; information support for crisis management; infrastructure systems; management
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Dear Colleagues,

Cities are currently administrative, cultural, and social centres for their residents, as well as for the entire adjacent regions of the surrounding rural settlements. Due to the availability of all services at one place, they become very desirable in the eyes of the people living in them. This statement is confirmed by the fact that most people live in cities. As a result, there is a need to solve several issues within the areas for which cities are responsible. However, it is important to realize that the centre of attention is the residents themselves with all the services that need to be provided for them. This applies to areas of everyday life, such as communication with the public administration, education, healthcare, transport, environment, etc. Individual areas are intrinsically interconnected. Cities should look for a solution that brings overall technological progress.

Nowadays, it is not appropriate to perceive the term Smart City or Smart Sustainable City only technologically. It also needs to be perceived socially and environmentally, in connection with the energy and climate changes that humanity is facing. If the term is perceived correctly, it is possible to select effective management theories for its management. The current preferences for defining the term Smart City (or Smart Sustainable City) and its connection with sustainable development and the management of a city and the whole region are reflected in this Special Issue as well. The special issue focuses on this issue on a scientific and research level, but also on a practical level. It includes sociological and ecological aspects related to demographic development, and also the new IT culture of the next generation. The proposed procedures reflect the latest knowledge in the field of science and research, which were confronted with other opinions in an international forum dealing with sustainable development and the management of cities using modern IT tools.

Scope (Topics include, but are not limited to)

  • smart city or smart sustainable city;
  • sustainable development of the city;
  • information and communication technology for smart cities;
  • IoT for smart cities;
  • smart mobility/elektro mobility;
  • smart technologies;
  • smart living;
  • smart buildings;
  • smart governance;
  • smart city management

Prof. Dr. Milan Kubina
Dr. Gabriel Koman
Prof. Dr. Zdeněk Dvořák
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • smart city
  • smart sustainable city
  • information and communication technology
  • management
  • mobility

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Public Transport Infrastructure with Electromobility Elements at the Smart City Level to Support Sustainability
by Gabriel Koman, Dominika Toman, Radoslav Jankal and Silvia Krúpová
Sustainability 2024, 16(3), 1091; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16031091 - 26 Jan 2024
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When implementing smart city elements, there are challenges in cities that need to be overcome. An analysis of global public transport infrastructure has indicated an upward trend in the integration of electric mobility solutions since 2022. The following research question characterises the problem [...] Read more.
When implementing smart city elements, there are challenges in cities that need to be overcome. An analysis of global public transport infrastructure has indicated an upward trend in the integration of electric mobility solutions since 2022. The following research question characterises the problem on which the research was focused. RQ: What role do the smart city strategy and its overall planning play in promoting city sustainability via elements of electromobility in public transport? Cities are increasingly committed to promoting more sustainable urban mobility. This article discusses three areas of study: electromobility in public transport, the smart city concept, and sustainability. The novelty of this article has three parts, namely the intersection of the described areas; comparison and summarisation of best practice; and in-depth analysis of the selected city. The methodological approach includes the analysis of case studies, analysis of the selected city, sociological interviews, synthesis, and modelling. One of the main findings reveals that electromobility impacts the city’s sustainability. It was also revealed that not all cities have already prepared their strategies focusing on this issue, which is unfavourable because careful planning supports the achieving sustainability in public transport. The findings were included in the design of solutions in the field of public transport infrastructure with elements of electromobility at the smart city level. Additionally, requirements for cities and recommendations for policy makers in selected areas were identified. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart City Building and Sustainable Governance)
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