Smart City Logistics on Cloud Computing Model

Abstract

City developing in the sustainable manner – economically, ecologically and socially – is the most competitive when it meets citizens’ demands. It becomes the most attractive place for life and work for residents. At the same time, building an inviting place that meets the needs of city residents is a difficult task for local governments. Firstly to identify, and secondly to fulfil the citizens’ continuously changing needs. One of the easiest methods to help understand the residents’ needs can be crowdsourcing usage. However the most challenging area of responsibility is to manage traffic by the city logistics infrastructure designed to eliminate congestion problems within existing city spatial and, at the same time, to flexibly reply on transport changing demands. The answer to those challenges facilitating future Smart City logistics development is interoperable IT system usage based on cloud computing model. Similarly, cloud computing, by its design and characteristics, is particularly interesting for the public sector aiming to reduce costs and improve flexibility in operations. The cloud computing model gives unique opportunity to design city logistics infrastructure in the way that it is easily adaptive to changing transport demands. The main objective of the article is to present Smart City logistics on the cloud computing model (Cloud Smart City logistics) as the concept of citizens’ demand-driven flexible logistics infrastructure performance for the sustainable city of the future which is available for any city government interested in sustainable development.