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Figure 5.5 Smart cities council definition of a smart city.

During processing the data is turned into information, and actionable
insights are gleaned that can form the basis for transportation service delivery
strategies. It is interesting to note that this latter definition is close to the work-
ing definition adopted by the Emerging Technologies Forum of ITS America,
as discussed earlier.
The service definitions described so far provide an overview of a smart
city in terms of a wide range of services beyond transportation and begin to
converge on the definition of a smart city from a transportation perspective.
The remainder of this chapter focuses on the definition of a smart city from a
transportation perspective, although we will discuss other elements of the smart
city to retain context.
To converge on a detailed definition of a smart city, from a transporta-
tion perspective, we take the U.S. DOT smart city vision elements as a starting
point [3] and supplement them with vision elements from each of the seven
U.S. DOT smart city challenge finalist’s applications [5–11] to form the basis
of the following list of smart city transportation services. Note that the vision