Detailed description (English): More sustainability, improved mobility, efficiency and safety. These are the results of the “Smart City”. Pie in the sky? Certainly not. The smart city is here already. In the smart city communication and technological developments play an important role. Machinery and equipment communicate with each other. Mobile data are being used to measure mobility and number of visitors, which leads to smarter policies in a smarter city.
Decisio | Economic Consulting is one of the leading firms in The Netherlands in performing and developing social cost benefits analyses (SCBAs). The SCBA is a useful tool to structure and weigh impacts of a project or other policy measures and support decision makers in testing, optimizing and justifying their policy decisions. Decisio consultants conduct SCBA studies, offer courses and support decision makers in various policy areas like transport economics (highways, cycling, rail, waterways, airports), (renewable) energy, spatial development, water management and tourism.
Exemple: Traffic during the Sint Jacobus Horse Market at wednesday Juli 22, 2015 in Alblasserdam
Target group(s): Local and regional government
Objectives: To know more about the technology of big data to measure mobility and number of visitors, which leads to smarter policies in a smarter city.
Expected Outcomes: Meeting with alderman Arjan Kraijo is planned to show the result, which is a study
Partner: Mezuro
Decison
Hogeschool Rotterdam
Netherlands