Information integration in a smart city system—a case study on air pollution removal by green infrastructure through a vehicle smart routing system

peer reviewedOver the past few years, the "smart city" concept has emerged as a new trend to answer challenging issues related to urban development. Transformation of a city system into a smart system is meant to improve the quality of life for its people and their way of living, its environment, economy, transport, and governance. Due to benefits associated with the concept of the smart city and associated implementation challenges, traditional city systems have been undergoing transformation into smart city systems. However, observed approaches of transformation presented disconnected and fragmented city systems that usually hamper the interaction of city subsystems with the efficient and environmentally friendly urban environment. This work emphasizes the systematic view of a city system and proposes a novel method of smart city system integration. The results of our study show that in a smart city environment, where ecosystem services are valorised, air pollution emitted by vehicles can be removed by taking into consideration information related to air pollution reduction. A case study is presented to demonstrate that, with an integrated system, information outputs on travel decisions are different and more valuable. The case study explores the operability of the system, its limitations, and potential future improvements

Information Integration in a Smart City System—A Case Study on Air Pollution Removal by Green Infrastructure through a Vehicle Smart Routing System

Over the past few years, the ‘‘smart city’’ concept has emerged as a new trend to answer challenging issues related to urban development. Transformation of a city system into a smart system is meant to improve the quality of life for its people and their way of living, its environment, economy, transport, and governance. Due to benefits associated with the concept of the smart city and associated implementation challenges, traditional city systems have been undergoing transformation into smart city systems. However, observed approaches of transformation presented disconnected and fragmented city systems that usually hamper the interaction of city subsystems with the efficient and environmentally friendly urban environment. This work emphasizes the systematic view of a city system and proposes a novel method of smart city system integration. The results of our study show that in a smart city environment, where ecosystem services are valorised, air pollution emitted by vehicles can be removed by taking into consideration information related to air pollution reduction. A case study is presented to demonstrate that, with an integrated system, information outputs on travel decisions are different and more valuable. The case study explores the operability of the system, its limitations, and potential future improvements

Production and recycling wastes in Belgium, Hungary, Italy and Spain

In this deliverable, CirclELab aims to show the required characteristics of the wastes to become valuable products and how these processers are made. The aim is to gather together data on wastes produced per economic activity in four countries (Belgium, Hungary, Italy and Spain) and analyse them with an objective of identifying the most important types and quantities of wastes; the focus will be oriented to the development of a methodology which will be proposed based on a disruptive toolkit that will allow students of 10-18 years old and their teachers to experience a recycling process with their hands. It will present the characteristic of wastes to become valuable products and the process through which wastes become products through recycling, by method of common and basic teaching concepts like pictures, paints, videos, etc. and visit to recycling plants to introduce and teach students recycling process or circular economy in schools, and students will be able to link common products with wastes and to understand that what is waste for one can be a resource for the other.CirclELa

D13 Final report

The project aims to show to 10-18 years old students, and their teachers, the main characteristics of Circular Economy: what is possible to do with wastes, and where materials are usually recycled even in the industrial sector?Circular Economy Laboratory: Circle La