Urban Energy Transition in Sustainable City Development
A special issue of Urban Science (ISSN 2413-8851).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 October 2019) | Viewed by 286
Special Issue Editor
2. Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada (from June 1st, 2019)
Interests: urban energy systems; 3D city modeling; renewable energy systems; urban energy management; smart cities
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
To move cities towards a zero-carbon future, the urban energy system needs to be transformed to accommodate a renewable supply while increasing efficiency in the building, industrial, and transport sectors.
This challenging transformation requires new planning, modeling, and optimization tools to develop cost-efficient scenarios. At the same time, the increasing digitalization can help to provide urban data and enable a demand response from multiple devices and customers. To make a city truly smart, the citizens need to be involved in evaluating which concepts improve the livability in urban centers, how new energy and transport concepts influence the air quality and urban microclimate, and what role green spaces or new urban farming concepts can play.
The Special Issue invites authors from the building, transport, smart grid, planning, computer science, and sociology fields to jointly create a vision of a truly smart city of the future.
Prof. Dr. habil. Ursula Eicker
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- urban modeling
- urban data
- renewable energy systems
- network infrastructure
- demand response and storage
- smart grids
- citizen involvement
- multi-modal transport
- sharing economy
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