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Research Challenges toward the Implementation of Smart Cities in the United States Final Report.

PB2016103698

Publication Date	2015
Personal Author	Cheu, R. L.; Mondragon, O. A.; Gates, A. Q.; Cabrera, S. D.; Villanueva-Rosales, N.; Ferrugut, C. M.; Jimenez, H. A. T.; Balal, E.; Makahaube, J.
Page Count	67
Abstract	A smart city is characterized by its ability to integrate people, technology and information to create an efficient, sustainable and resilient infrastructure that provides high quality services while improving the quality of life of its residents. This report focuses on the three infrastructures: smart classroom buildings, smart bridges and smart bus systems, with the aim of making them smarter in the context of smart citires. The objective is to develop Concepts of Operations (ConOps), from user's perspective, for smart buildings, smart bridges and smart bus systems, respectively, for smart cities. A smart classroom building is one which makes used of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) to link different systems within a building to deliver useful information to different end users so as to improve the quality of teaching, learning and working experiences. A smart bridge has wireless sensors that automatically monitor the structural and geo-technical health, exchanges real-time data with traffic management center and incorporate traffic and emission impacts in the bridge maintenance decision making process. A smart bus system provides passengers a high quality service by implementing several bus rapid transit features and by the use of ICT to integrate and deliver service information to passengers. This report provides a description of each of the infrastructure systems from the system engineering perspective. Several techniques (Stakeholder In uence Diagram, Context Diagram, by the smart classroom buildings, smart bridges and smart bus systems. By applying these systems engineering techniques, the challenges and research opportunities of transforming existing classroom buildings, bridges and regular bus systems into smart classroom buildings, smart bridges, and smart bus systems are identified.
Keywords	Smart cities Smart classroom bulding Smart bridges Smart bus Technology information Sustainable Resilient Traffic management Implementation Emission impacts Geotechnical health Bridge maintenance Decision making processes Structural health
Source Agency	Federal Highway Administration Department of Transportation Office of University Research Department of Transportation Research and InnovativeTechnology Administration(RITA)
NTIS Subject Category	43G - Transportation 85 - Transportation 62R - Applications Software 45C - Common Carrier & Satellite 89D - Structural Analyses 89B - Architectural Design & Environmental Engineering 70B - Management Practice
Corporate Authors	Texas Univ., El Paso.; Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC.; Department of Transportation, Washington, DC. Research & Innovative Technology Administration (RITA).; Department of Transportation, Washington, DC. University Transportation Centers Program.; Rutgers - The State Univ., Piscataway, NJ. Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation.
Document Type	Technical Report
Title Note	Final rept. 09/01/2015 - 12/31/2015.
NTIS Issue Number	201619
Contract Number	DTRT12-G-UTC16

Research Challenges toward the Implementation of Smart Cities in the United States Final Report.

Research Challenges toward the Implementation of Smart Cities in the United States Final Report.
PB2016103698

Publication Date	2015
Personal Author	Cheu, R. L.; Mondragon, O. A.; Gates, A. Q.; Cabrera, S. D.; Villanueva-Rosales, N.; Ferrugut, C. M.; Jimenez, H. A. T.; Balal, E.; Makahaube, J.
Page Count	67
Abstract	A smart city is characterized by its ability to integrate people, technology and information to create an efficient, sustainable and resilient infrastructure that provides high quality services while improving the quality of life of its residents. This report focuses on the three infrastructures: smart classroom buildings, smart bridges and smart bus systems, with the aim of making them smarter in the context of smart citires. The objective is to develop Concepts of Operations (ConOps), from user's perspective, for smart buildings, smart bridges and smart bus systems, respectively, for smart cities. A smart classroom building is one which makes used of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) to link different systems within a building to deliver useful information to different end users so as to improve the quality of teaching, learning and working experiences. A smart bridge has wireless sensors that automatically monitor the structural and geo-technical health, exchanges real-time data with traffic management center and incorporate traffic and emission impacts in the bridge maintenance decision making process. A smart bus system provides passengers a high quality service by implementing several bus rapid transit features and by the use of ICT to integrate and deliver service information to passengers. This report provides a description of each of the infrastructure systems from the system engineering perspective. Several techniques (Stakeholder In uence Diagram, Context Diagram, by the smart classroom buildings, smart bridges and smart bus systems. By applying these systems engineering techniques, the challenges and research opportunities of transforming existing classroom buildings, bridges and regular bus systems into smart classroom buildings, smart bridges, and smart bus systems are identified.
Keywords	Smart cities Smart classroom bulding Smart bridges Smart bus Technology information Sustainable Resilient Traffic management Implementation Emission impacts Geotechnical health Bridge maintenance Decision making processes Structural health
Source Agency	Federal Highway Administration Department of Transportation Office of University Research Department of Transportation Research and InnovativeTechnology Administration(RITA)
NTIS Subject Category	43G - Transportation 85 - Transportation 62R - Applications Software 45C - Common Carrier & Satellite 89D - Structural Analyses 89B - Architectural Design & Environmental Engineering 70B - Management Practice
Corporate Authors	Texas Univ., El Paso.; Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC.; Department of Transportation, Washington, DC. Research & Innovative Technology Administration (RITA).; Department of Transportation, Washington, DC. University Transportation Centers Program.; Rutgers - The State Univ., Piscataway, NJ. Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation.
Document Type	Technical Report
Title Note	Final rept. 09/01/2015 - 12/31/2015.
NTIS Issue Number	201619
Contract Number	DTRT12-G-UTC16