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Sustainable Smart Cities: Planning and Operation
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Sustainable Smart Cities: Planning and Operation

A special issue of Infrastructures (ISSN 2412-3811).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 6026

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Hady H. Fayek

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Electromechanics Department, Faculty of Engineering, Heliopolis University, Cairo, Egypt
Interests: smart grids; 100% renewable energy systems; power system control; microgrids; water energy food nexus
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Dr. Panos Kotsampopoulos

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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Zografou, Greece
Interests: real-time simulation; control of distributed generation; microgrids; smart grids; power-system dynamics; education
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Dr. Francesco Liberati

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Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering “Antonio Ruberti”, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Via Ariosto 25, 00185 Roma, Italy
Interests: automatic control; smart grids; smart cities; cyber-physical systems
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Ms. Sara A. Rasahad

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Mechatronics Department, Faculty of Engineerin, Heliopolis University, Cairo, Egypt
Interests: mechatronics system design; robotics; renewable energy; controller design
Mr. Abanoub Shenouda

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Department of Civil Engineering, Heliopolis University, Cairo, Egypt
Interests: civil engineering; optimization; project management; renewable energy

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Increasing environmental awareness and concern, urbanization and technological development has resulted in an urgent need and opportunity to rethink how we construct and manage our cities. In recent decades, these interlinked issues’ developments have started to converge under the new heading of smart sustainable cities.

Smart cities can be defined as “places where information technology is combined with infrastructure, architecture, everyday objects, and even our own bodies to address social, economic and environmental problems”. The origin of the concept of smart cities can be traced back to at least the smart growth movement of the late 1990s.

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It contains within it two key concepts:

  • The concept of “needs”, in particular the essential needs of the world's poor, to which overriding priority should be given; and
  • The idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organization on the environment's ability to meet present and future needs.

This Special Issue, entitled “Sustainable smart cities planning and operation”, focuses on this very interesting and promising prospect of exploiting the integration between sustainable development goals and the technology of the era, in terms of artificial intelligence and Internet of Things in the energy, water, urban and food industries (agriculture). We seek papers presenting new research proposals or the development and improvement of existing ones, including innovative case study applications.

Topics may include (but are not limited to)

  • Advanced technology-based sustainable energy generation
  • Advanced technology-based energy saving mechanisms
  • IoT-based sustainable water consumption and resource management
  • Sustainable development and smart applications in relevance to WEF nexus
  • Control of traffic lights in smart cities
  • Smart grids
  • Smart homes
  • Street lighting in sustainable smart cities
  • Stakeholders of smart cities considering sustainability
  • Standards of smart cities considering sustainability
  • Solar energy role in sustainable smart cities
  • Smart mobilities
  • EVs’ role in sustainable smart cities
  • Advanced technology-based sustainable urban planning
  • IoT, control and robotics applications in agriculture villages
  • Cooperation for WEF nexus
Dr. Hady H. Fayek
Dr. Panos Kotsampopoulos
Dr. Francesco Liberati
Ms. Sara A. Rasahad
Mr. Abanoub Shenouda
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Infrastructures is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Smart cities
  • Sustainable cities
  • Smart grids
  • WEF nexus
  • Renewable energy
  • Sustainable urban planning and design
  • IoT applications in cities

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The Impact of the Cairo Streets Development Project on the Independent Mobility of Children: A Field Study on the Streets of Heliopolis, Egypt
by Nargis Shafik, Yasser Mansour, Shaimaa Kamel and Ruby Morcos
Infrastructures 2021, 6(7), 98; https://doi.org/10.3390/infrastructures6070098 - 6 Jul 2021
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Due to significant changes in Cairo’s streets today, young children may face difficulties finding opportunities to be safe and active. They can encounter low independent mobility, limiting their access to places in their neighborhoods, and can have poor access to their schools. This [...] Read more.
Due to significant changes in Cairo’s streets today, young children may face difficulties finding opportunities to be safe and active. They can encounter low independent mobility, limiting their access to places in their neighborhoods, and can have poor access to their schools. This study aims to examine governmental primary school children’s access to schools in their neighborhoods after street modifications in Heliopolis, Cairo, seeking to evaluate the potential risks to child pedestrians. This will subsequently aid in developing a methodology for consistently and fairly evaluating hazards along the route to schools. A survey of six governmental primary schools in Heliopolis, Cairo, was conducted through interviews with children and their parents. Furthermore, a behavioral map of the local neighborhood was completed by children (7–12 years old) of six primary schools from the areas surrounding their schools in which the modifications took place. The results indicate that the most common ways of travelling to school, according to the questionnaire, are either by public transportation (30%) or by a small van/private bus (42%). More than half of the children expressed their wish to walk or cycle to school. The result also found that 69% of the children expressed anxiety about crossing streets. In conclusion, for some children, opportunities to be active in the local neighborhood may be limited due to the new modifications to the streets, resulting in limited independent mobility. To promote a sense of neighborhood safety and increase access to neighborhood public spaces, it is important to work with urban planners and local governments. Full article
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