What is a Smart City?
The following articles summarize recent literature on smart cities, and are a good starting point for understanding and researching the topic.
- "Depicting the Smarter Cities of the Future: A Systematic Literature Review & Field Study." byPublication Date: 2017. In 2017 Smart City Symposium Prague (SCSP), Prague, 2017.
- "Smart Cities." byPublication Date: 2015. In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Elsevier Science & Technology.
- "Understanding the Smart City Domain: A Literature Review." byPublication Date: 2015. In Transforming City Governments for Successful Smart Cities, Springer International Publishing,
Smart City Vision
From Mahmassani, Hani S. "Connected Systems, Smart Cities, and Urban Mobility: Realizing the Potential of User-Centered Intelligence." Presentation at First National Conress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems for Highways. Istanbul, April 22, 2014.
Engineering Databases
- ASCE Civil Engineering Database This link opens in a new windowThe Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) is designed to provide easy bibliographic access to all ASCE publications. The database covers ASCE documents published since 1970. It provides full text access to all the journals; only abstracts and indexing for conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newspapers.
- Engineering Village This link opens in a new windowEngineering Village comprises Compendex and INSPEC. Compendex is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines. INSPEC is a database providing access to bibliographic citations and abstracts of the scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, information technology, manufacturing and production engineering.
- IEEE Xplore Digital Library This link opens in a new windowHas full-text access to technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics
- INSPEC This link opens in a new windowInspec, created by the IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers), is the leading bibliographic database providing abstracts and indexing to the world's scientific and technical papers in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computing, information technology, manufacturing and production engineering. Search both Insepc & Inspec Archive. Coverage: 1898-current.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowA database for scientific research that contains the full text of more than 1000 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences available throught the Internet. Contains abstracts and articles from the core journals in major scientific disciplines. The journals are arranged under subject areas for topical navigation.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary coverage of over 10,000 journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as published proceedings for over 12,000 conferences per year, and over 50,000 scholarly books.Powerful tools allow you to search and see what articles in the database have cited a particular work, as well as perform other analytics.
Smart Cities in Europe
- The European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and CommunitiesThe EIP-SCC brings together cities, industry and citizens to improve urban life through more sustainable integrated solutions. This includes applied innovation, better planning, a more participatory approach, higher energy efficiency, better transport solutions, intelligent use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), etc.
- European Smart CitiesAn integrative approach to profile and benchmark European medium-sized cities, and regarded as an instrument for effective learning processes regarding urban innovations in specific fields of urban development.
- Eurostat: Smart CitiesStatistics on education, innovation, transport, and use of technology for smart cities in Europe.
Urban Studies
- Urban Studies Abstracts This link opens in a new windowProvides citations covering areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Covers1973-present.
Selected Journals
ITS International: Advanced Technology for Traffic Management and Urban MobilityCall Number: Transportation Library Periodicals (Shelved by title)
Journal of Advanced TransportationCall Number: Transportation Library Periodicals (Shelved by title) and Online- Transportation Research Part C: Emerging TechnologiesCall Number: Online Resource
Urban, planning and transport research.Call Number: Online Resource
Selected Websites
- IEEE - Smart CitiesPublications, news, and links to other useful information on smart cities from IEEE.
- U.S. Department of Transportation - Smart City ChallengeA challenge from the DOT in which mid-sized cities across America developed ideas for an integrated, first-of-its-kind smart transportation system that would use data, applications, and technology to help people and goods move more quickly, cheaply, and efficiently.