MUNISS: Realization of Smart City Vision for City District Nový Lískovec
An ever-growing number of cities, referred to as smart cities, together with an increasing number of inhabitants who need to move within the city using public transportation or cars daily, has caused an exponential growth in the number of vehicles in the past few years. This situation resulted in a number of challenges related to traffic management in today‘s cities in relation to parking issues, air pollution, traffic congestion, and accidents. For that reason, attention in the MUNISS 2016 (smart district topic) project was directed to traffic management, more precisely parking optimization and securing parking order. Team no. 79 above was selected to explore the problematic of securing parking order in Novýy Lískovec district (Brno, Czech republic) and provide a draft pilot project for a well-thought-out traffic system for the district.
The following points can be considered crucial for the concept of smart city with regard to mobility: effective traffic regulation and management (including cycling and parking), using telematics, administrative measures, as well as deliberate city infrastructure development.
As this project combined with relevant literature shows, a key element of a smart city today is a well-thought-out traffic system. That includes especially systems for detecting parking space occupancy and systems allowing real time bus, trolleybus and metro position monitoring, as shown in figure 3.
For full information about the project (individual decisions, possible scalability, etc.) please refer to the uncut Czech version, see http://muniss.cz/pro-verejnost/ (Topic 29 – Smart district).
Students involved in the project:
Pavel Mašek, Radka Plchová, Ina Schmidt, Martin Štůsek, Daniela Vasasová, Kryštof Zeman, Sabina Žochová
