Public documents
PR Material
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Project Flyer [PDF]
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Project Flyer (Italian) [PDF]
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Project Poster A1 [PDF]
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Project Poster A1 (Italian) [PDF]
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urbanAPI Newsletter 01/2013 [PDF]
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urbanAPI Newsletter 02/2013 [PDF]
Deliverables
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D1.3.1 Annual report 2012 [PDF]
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D2.1 User Requirements Definition [PDF]
This deliverable defines thee requirements for the development of urbanAPI tools and applications for different scenarios of Vienna, Bologna, Vitoria-Gasteiz and Ruse. This is the final and complete version. -
D3.2 User Interface Elements Documentation [PDF]
This document specifies the user interface elements of the UrbanAPI applications. It also includes some technology background and architecture of web based applications, to explain the benefits and challenges in our approach. -
D3.3 Rule User Interface Elements [PDF]
This document describes the rule editing user interface developed for the UrbanAPI project. Rule-based systems are used for various purposes within the project: to resolve conflicts during data integration, to prepare and edit data, to change visual attributes prior to presentation and to enforce policy rules during policy modelling processes. -
D3.4 Visual analysis documentation [PDF]
The basic concepts of the tools used for visual analysis in urbanAPI are described along with some explanations of the problematic areas concerned. The scenario editor for the set up of the data to create analysable szenarios is introduced and tools for use in a web-portal environment. A special aspect is the integration of the mobile device movement data, so that it can also be analysed in a 3D environment. -
D3.5 Data Integration Components Documentation [PDF]
The UrbanAPI applications are tools to analyze and visualize various data set of the cities involved. Even simulations of urban-growth can be conducted on some of these data sets. Mostly these data sets have some spatial reference or are exported by some existing GIS in the city. This document explains the approach to integrate the data provided by the cities into the UrbanAPI applications. -
D3.7 - Processing Components Documentation [PDF]
The report describes the data processing requirements for each of the tools and processing components applied -
D3.8 - Simulation Components Documentation [PDF]
The report describes the simulation components in UrbanAPI -
D5.1 Assessment Methodology [PDF]
This deliverable sets out the evaluation methodology and planning to carry out evaulation of UrbanAPI tools and applications.
Publications
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Aplicación de herramientas basadas en tecnologías de la información y la comunicación en la gestión [PDF]
This paper presents the intended use of the two first applications of urbanAPI in one of the pilot cities of Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain). We envision the use of these applications because they are closely related to other two municipal projects. The first application based on the exploitation of virtual reality scenarios, is intended to support decision-making in urban reform projects; specifically, in the improvement works related to the implementation of urban green infrastructure. The second application analyses the data from mobile phones anonymously to identify trends of mobility and use of public space by citizens. We expect that the information derived from this application can be used as a support and complement of the mobility surveys used by urban planners as a basis for the mobility planning. -
Applying the CoReS Requirements Development Method for Building IT Tools for Urban Management System [PDF]
Gathering and managing requirements from stakeholders is an essential task for the successful development of IT tools for any application domain. However, specifying stakeholders’ requirements for a collaborative research and development project in the urban management domain is especially challenging. The reason for this is that stakeholders are drawn from different professional, scientific and national backgrounds and contexts, and therefore have various and differing research, technological and application domain-specific objectives. These challenges make it difficult to identify commonalities in requirements that can result in the development of generic IT tools which can be applied in other cities. These various challenges make it highly desirable therefore to identify and apply a coherent methodological approach to the management of the requirements gathering process and stakeholder engagement more generally. In this paper, we introduce a coherent methodology and a generic requirements engineering process, namely – ‘CoReS – Collaborative Requirements Engineering and Stakeholder engagement’. This process is applied to the UrbanAPI-project - a collaborative research project, in which eleven partners from six European countries are collaborating to develop IT tools to support policy making, urban planning and participatory governance at different urban scales. The CoReS method results in the identification of commonalities in stakeholder requirements from four major cities located in different EU member states with the objective to develop generic IT tools and applications. More specifically, this paper reports on the urban planning issues and needs for generic IT tools. In addition, it presents strengths and weaknesses of the CoReS method applied in the UrbanAPI project. Furthermore, it is argued that this experience can effectively support the specification of a roadmap in defining the requirements for the development of IT tools for decision support in the urban planning domain, that can be applied to a wide range of cities throughout Europe. -
Mobile phone data as source to discover spatial activity and motion patterns [PDF]
This paper discusses the application of mobile phone data for exploring the time-dependent population distribution and motion patterns, by detecting the dynamics within these changing distributions. Such pattern explorations make use of the mobile phone location information as proxy for personal location information. Activity and motion exploration of mobile phone data, achieving a rather high spatial resolution, requires a dense mobile phone network infrastructure. As urban environments are supplied with a more dense network of mobile ommunication transmitter stations then rural ones, urban areas are better suited for such an analysis. The contribution describes the difficulties of mobile device data extraction, the uncertainties occurring within the data sets, gives an overview of the current possibilities to make use of these data for urban planning and mobility strategies as well as for social space studies, and finally provides an short outlook about analysis and visualisation possibilities which might occur in the future. -
Participatory Democracy and the Governance of Smart Cities [PDF]
This paper was submitted to the 26th annual AESOP congress 11-15July 2012, Ankara, Turkey. It presents results from the urbanAPI pan-European research project, funded by EU FP7 (DG Information Society Smart Cities Programme). urbanAPI directly addresses the prime challenges arising from demands for more democratic and more responsive community planning, and for the greater involvement of citizens in policy-making and the governance of the city regions of Europe today.
