Smart cities and ICT based analysis: utilizing opportunities of big data
Rein Ahas
Professor of Human Geography
University of Tartu
Baltic Urban Forum workshop in Tartu 20 January 2014
1. Mobility
The century of spatial mobility
People
Goods
Raw materials
Ideas
Info
Crime
…
ICT use and spatial mobility – positive correlation
Mobility lab of University of Tartu
Money and spatial mobility – strong positive correlation
Hierarchical system: Moving „up“ to central (bigger) city
P. Taylor et al. 2010 – hierarchical systems have lower competiveness
Commuting area or catchment area of Tallinn
„Escalator regions“
Network – no hierarchy, connections
and choices in same level
M. Castells, 2010 – Networks have higher competiveness
German settlement system:
How to create successful networks, not „centralised systems“ ?
Can ICT be tool to develop functioning networks?
2. ICT and big data
Baltic Urban Forum workshop in Tartu 20 January 2014
Difficult to plan or govern city without understanding ICT
BIG data: Twitter analyses, London
Success of F1 1990: money, car, driver…
Success of F1 2014: money, sensors, analyses…
Urban governance?
Can we really use and benefit from
sensors?
BIG data?
analysis?
3. Business models for BIG data
Smart decisions: data analyses and central decision making ?
Smart decisions in local sensor networks?
Conclusions
Baltic Urban Forum workshop in Tartu 20 January 2014
BIG data as mirror?
Mankind is just trying to look - what is going on?
Thank you!
Mobility lab of University of Tartu:
http://mobilitylab.ut.ee/eng/
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