Abstract
Smart city development is gaining considerable recognition in the systematic literature and international policies throughout the world. The study aims to identify the key barriers of smart cities from a review of existing literature and views of experts in this area. This work further makes an attempt on the prioritisation of barriers to recognise the most important barrier category and ranking of specific barriers within the categories to the development of smart cities in India. Through the existing literature, this work explored 31 barriers of smart cities development and divided them into six categories. This research work employed fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique to prioritise the selected barriers. Findings reveal that ‘Governance’ is documented as the most significant category of barriers for smart city development followed by ‘Economic; ‘Technology’; ‘Social’; ‘Environmental’ and ‘Legal and Ethical’. In this work, authors also performed sensitivity analysis to validate the findings of study. This research is useful to the government and policymakers for eradicating the potential interferences in smart city development initiatives in developing countries like India.
Highlights
Smart city development is gaining considerable recognition in the systematic literature and international policies in the last two decades (Albino et al 2015; Koo et al 2017; Mori and Christodoulou 2012)
Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is utilized to find the dominant barriers to smart city development in Indian context
& This study reveals 31 key barriers within 6 categories to smart city development in developing economies, especially in India
Summary
Smart city development is gaining considerable recognition in the systematic literature and international policies in the last two decades (Albino et al 2015; Koo et al 2017; Mori and Christodoulou 2012). In India, urbanisation is growing rapidly and cities are likely to expand to 600 million by 2030. Another study by Mckinsey (2018) reported that in the following 15 years, around 200 million people will transition from rural to urban areas in India. The change will be enormous, nearly equal to existing populations of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom combined. In this sense, Inf Syst Front (2019) 21:503–525 the Government of India (GoI) is committed to enhance the quality of life for citizens through its urban development agenda (Bloomberg Philanthropies 2017; Nair 2017). GoI has listed 109 of India’s most popular urban centres where the focus shifts from Bhighways to i-ways^
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