Smart Cities in Turkey: Approaches, Advances and Applications with Greater Consideration for Future Urban Transport Development

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doi:10.3390/en12122308

Abstract

The smart city transport concept is viewed as a future vision aiming to undertake investigations on the urban planning process and to construct policy-pathways for achieving future targets. Therefore, this paper sets out three visions for the year 2035 which bring about a radical change in the level of green transport systems (often called walking, cycling, and public transport) in Turkish urban areas. A participatory visioning technique was structured according to a three-stage technique: (i) Extensive online comprehensive survey, in which potential transport measures were researched for their relevance in promoting smart transport systems in future Turkish urban areas; (ii) semi-structured interviews, where transport strategy suggestions were developed in the context of the possible imaginary urban areas and their associated contextual description of the imaginary urban areas for each vision; (iii) participatory workshops, where an innovative method was developed to explore various creative future choices and alternatives. Overall, this paper indicates that the content of the future smart transport visions was reasonable, but such visions need a considerable degree of consensus and radical approaches for tackling them. The findings offer invaluable insights to researchers inquiring about the smart transport field, and policy-makers considering applying those into practice in their local urban areas.

Highlights

The concept of smart transport has been recognized by Smith et al [22], where a critical level of participation among its experts and community can lead to approval of a desirable future place to make joint and shared means of action
Amongst all smart transportation strategies, ‘energy’ is always paramount; that is why public and private companies play a chief role in future smart design [24,25,26,27,28]
- Reducing the need for parts of urban areas public transport systems for solutions car travel inAvoid urbanVision areas to the carShift Vision all commuters

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Introduction

In this century more than ever, cities need to construct smart transportation approaches, advances, and applications with much higher consideration for future urban development [1,2,3,4] since only can they suggest new desirable urban environments and prioritize the aspects that are most critical and vital for their future [5,6,7].Today, the smart transport concepts seem to pay more attention towards offering ecological [8,9,10,11]and economic development [12,13,14,15] and quality of living products using the abilities of innovative technologies [16,17,18,19,20]—perhaps as, in the close future, these are more gainful and remarkable tasks to deliver [21]. In this century more than ever, cities need to construct smart transportation approaches, advances, and applications with much higher consideration for future urban development [1,2,3,4] since only can they suggest new desirable urban environments and prioritize the aspects that are most critical and vital for their future [5,6,7]. The concept of smart transport has been recognized by Smith et al [22], where a critical level of participation among its experts and community can lead to approval of a desirable future place to make joint and shared means of action. Smart transport is about energy and technology, but there are different combinations of applications, advances, and approaches that build the concept of future urban development

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