Abstract
During the past few decades, the combination of flourishing maritime commerce and urban population increases has made port-cities face several challenges. Smart Port-Cities of the future will take advantage of the newest IoT technologies to tackle those challenges in a joint fashion from both the city and port side. A specific matter of interest in this work is how to obtain reliable, measurable indicators to establish port-city policies for mutual benefit. This paper proposes an IoT-based software framework, accompanied with a methodology for defining, calculating, and predicting composite indicators that represent real-world phenomena in the context of a Smart Port-City. This paper envisions, develops, and deploys the framework on a real use-case as a practice experiment. The experiment consists of deploying a composite index for monitoring traffic congestion at the port-city interface in Thessaloniki (Greece). Results were aligned with the expectations, validated through nine scenarios, concluding with delivery of a useful tool for interested actors at Smart Port-Cities to work over and build policies upon.
Highlights
Port and cities have been working as independent siloes, striving separately to reach innovation goals towards better sustainability and economic growth
The authors believe that the outcomes of this work might hugely contribute to cities and ports by implementing an IoT-based solution, which is the main focus of this special issue
The the composite index (TCI) can be used in the reports of the port and the city to evaluate how the different urban planning initiatives or port land construction works are affecting the traffic in the surroundings
Summary
Port and cities have been working as independent siloes, striving separately to reach innovation goals towards better sustainability and economic growth. Looking only at the big numbers, there are 33 megacities in the world (with more than 10 million inhabitants) [4]; 25 of them are port-cities, accumulating more than 25% of global container trade volume [5]. Useful solutions addressing Smart Port-City challenges will be a key game changer from both business and societal perspective in the forthcoming years. This is the context in which this work is framed
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