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the design, development, and establishment of a network of charging points for
the electric vehicle.

Connected, involved citizens.

A further vision element calls for the use of smart phones and other technolo-
gies to ensure that citizens within the smart city are fully connected with infor-
mation and government services.

Architectures and standards.
Smart cities must also aim to use best industry practices for technology, or-
ganizational, and business model frameworks. This includes the adoption of
relevant national and international standards and the development of local
standards where appropriate.

Low-cost, efficient, secure, and resilient Information and Communications
Technology (ICT).
A further vision element calls for the use of appropriate communications and
processing technologies, including wireless and wireline, to support data trans-
mission and information sharing.

Smart land use.
Since there is a well-documented relationship between land use and the demand
for transportation, a smart city should also include long-range plans to adapt
land use to optimize transportation service delivery, accessibility, and mobility.
In addition, smart cities can use urban analytics to improve their understanding
of the effects of land use on transportation demand, such as the observation and
analysis of trip generation from zones with a predominant land use.
Another perspective on the definition of a smart city is that of the smart
cities council [4]. The council identifies three core functions of a smart city.
These functions, which are shown in Figure 5.5, are described as follows.

• Collect: Data is collected from a wide range of devices and sensors, both
vehicle and infrastructure-based.
• Communicate: This takes advantage of a combination of wired and
wireless communications to bring the data back to a central back office
for processing.
• Crunch: This is the smart cities council term for data processing, which
is conducted for three purposes:
• Presenting;
• Perfecting;
• Predicting.