Towards Sustainable and Smart Cities: Replicable and KPI-Driven Evaluation Framework

Sustainability is pivotal in the urban transformation strategy in order to reach more resource-efficient, resilient and smarter cities. The goal of being a sustainable city should drive the decisions for city interventions, and measuring city progress is a key step for this process. There are many i...

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Autores: Quijano, Ana, Hernández, José Luis, Nouaille, Pierre, Virtanen, Mikko, Sánchez-Sarachu, Beatriz, Pardo Bosch, Francesc|||0000-0001-9532-8508, Knieilng, Jörg
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/363079
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/363079
https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings12020233
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Sustainable urban development
Sustainable mobility
Project management
Energy conservation
Smart cities
Sustainable cities
Evaluation framework
Indicator
Smart city
Energy efficiency
Renewable solutions
Electromobility
Ciutats intel·ligents
Desenvolupament urbà sostenible
Mobilitat sostenible
Gestió de projectes
Energia--Estalvi
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Desenvolupament humà i sostenible
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Sumario:Sustainability is pivotal in the urban transformation strategy in order to reach more resource-efficient, resilient and smarter cities. The goal of being a sustainable city should drive the decisions for city interventions, and measuring city progress is a key step for this process. There are many initiatives aiming at defining indicators and assessment procedures, but there is no convergence in the definition of terms and application methodologies, making their real implementation complex. Within mySMARTLife project (GA#731297), a KPI-driven evaluation framework has been defined with the aim of covering the multiple pillars of a smart and sustainable city (i.e., environment, energy, mobility, ICT, citizens, economy, governance) in a holistic way. This methodology also defines the concepts and terms to guide urban planners and/or experts at the time of implementing the framework for any specific city. The evaluation framework has been deployed in the cities of Nantes, Hamburg and Helsinki, and some lessons have been learned, such as the necessity of providing a definition of measurement boundary to avoid biased interpretations. Due to a co-creation strategy, the main issues from the cities have been taken into consideration in order to increase the replicability of the results.