Enabling citizens’ right to the smart city through the co-creation of digital platforms

In response to increasingly deterministic and all-encompassing implementation of smart city technologies, scholars and activists plea for policies and initiatives to support citizens’ democratic ‘Right to the Smart City.’ Although it is common for government officials and technology companies to make an effort to support citizen participation in...

Assessment of 5G RAN Features for Integrated Services Provisioning in Smart Cities

In a 5G Radio Access Network (RAN), different features are offered as solutions to serve traffic with diverse characteristics and requirements, including flexible numerology, (non-)pre-emptive mini-slot based scheduling and network slicing. In this paper, we present an extensive simulation-based assessment of the relative merit of these distinct...

Design for values and the city

This paper undertakes a critical and constructive investigation into the applicability of value sensitive design (VSD) and design for values (DfV) methodologies for urban technologies, as a means to envision and enact responsible urban innovations. In particular, this paper focuses on the identification and analysis of values in urban...

Constrained Urban Airspace Design for Large-Scale Drone-Based Delivery Traffic

Large-scale adoption of drone-based delivery in urban areas promise societal benefits with respect to emissions and on-ground traffic congestion, as well as potential cost savings for drone-based logistic companies. However, for this to materialise, the ability of accommodating high volumes of drone traffic in an urban airspace is one of the...

DotBot: Searching for a positive white cane experience

The design of the white cane, the most used mobility aid for visually impaired, has not changed significantly since the mid-20th century. New concepts and technological solutions have failed to catch on. However, the cane seems unappealing and outdated to some potential users. Margot Scheltema, the initiator of this graduation project, is a...

De meerwaarde van ontwerpend onderzoek voor gebiedsontwikkelaars

Tien ontwerpteams, vijf steden, een onzekere toekomst: dat zijn de ingrediënten voor de ontwerpstudie 'De stad van de toekomst'. Onderzoekers van de TU Delft analyseren welke meerwaarde zulke ontwerpstudies hebben voor gebiedsontwikkelaars. In dit vervolgartikel kijken we naar voorbeelden van deze meerwaarde: “Meteen met z’n allen rond de tafel...

Volunteers in the Smart City: Comparison of Contribution Strategies on Human-Centered Measures

Provision of smart city services often relies on users contribution, e.g., of data, which can be costly for the users in terms of privacy. Privacy risks, as well as unfair distribution of benefits to the users, should be minimized as they undermine user participation, which is crucial for the success of smart city applications. This paper...

Shaping Indian Cities: Planning and design with smart city technologies

With the emergence of the latest concept of smart cities, there is a rapid change of lifestyle and a mass migration to cities. At the same time, cities have high demands of infrastructure such as transport and building, and resources such as food, water, and energy, as well as issues like scarcity of adequate land, unapproachable government. All...

FCEV as power plant: a techno-economic scenario analysis in two climates for smart cities

In the Paris Agreement a total of 195 countries agreed on a legally binding climate deal to bridge towards climate-neutrality before the end of the century. This requires affordable zero emission, heat and transport systems. This research answers the question whether solar and wind generated electricity, with the integration of fuel cell...

Localab

This project examines the current state of the art of using public participation in urban planning, resulting in a proposal for a new online participatory tool. Amongst other advantages, involving citizens in urban planning projects reduces the cost, time & risk of implementation, while the incorporation of ‘local knowledge’ in the decision...

Urban experimentation and institutional arrangements

Currently little is known about how institutional arrangements co-evolve with urban experimentation. This paper mobilizes neo-institutional literature and recent urban experimentation literature as a framework to explore how and why institutional arrangements differ across urban contexts. Empirically the paper focusses on smart city...

Making sense of standards: An evaluation and harmonisation of standards in the Sensor Web

Sensor data plays a significant role in our life. Sensors are devices that can sense our environment. This sensor data is part of the Sensor Web and needs a vast data infrastructure design, because many organisations are involved, the abundance of different sensors and because of the big volume of data and near-real time data. The extent to...

The Driverless City: The implementation of a public autonomous transit system and its impact on spatial quality of the public realm in Toronto

The timeline for mobility starts with the invention of the wheel 11.500 years ago. Another 5.500 years pass before the next paradigm shift of the wheeled car. A gradual series of technological advances eventually accelerated to the invention of the first ‘’auto’’mobile. During the 20th centure things are speeding up: Automatic transmission,...