Urban Life & Mobility

How ICT technologies can support

citizen empowerment and better
mobility services in the Cities of the
Future
Gilles Betis EIT ICT Labs Action Line Leader
London, Summit of the Leaders, 16/04/2014
Introduction
Gilles
BETIS
gilles.betis@eitctlabs.eu
Mobility & Smart City Product Line Manager
Urban Life & Mobility Action Line Leader
IEEE Smart Cities Initiative Lead IEEE member
EIT ICT Labs Who are we ?
EIT ICT Labs Climate KIC
KIC
InnoEnergy
2009 : The first three Knowledge
Innovation Communities (KIC) are selected
2008 : EIT was established in as an
independent agency within the EU
EIT ICT Labs Co-location Centers
Education,
Research &
Business
! From student to entrepreneur
! From laboratory to market
! From idea to product
Urban Life & Mobility Mission
Urban challenges
At least some of them!
Housing Pollution
Traffic
Water &
Energy
Health &
Wellbeing
Crime
Citizenship & Democracy
New forms of bottom-up initiatives become visible
Vote
Hacktivism
Riots
Associations
Demonstrations
Participation
The Emergent Economy
Collaborative & open
Shared Cars
Crowdfunding
Open Currency
Swap
Collaboration
Peer-to-peer
A matter of transition
Behaviour
Governance
Business
Cardinal Objectives of Smart Cities
SMART ?
Attractive for
People & Business
Inclusive
Sustainable
Resilient
Agile &
Adaptive
Support Stable &
Robust Process
Is it just a matter of
TECHNOLOGY ?
Value chains in the ecosystem
Citizens &
Users
Urban Services
Providers
Governance
Bodies
Economical
Actors
External value
internalization
Internal
value
exchange
The Mobility Paridigm Shift
From people transit to remote value access
The daily seamless mobility
" The mobility market place : inform, plan and drive mobility
" A holistic approach integrating multiple transport means and a financial clearing
" Crowd sourced information and services
" Goods mobility and third places
Mobility metrics
" For the users, for governance, for service providers
" Assess the value created by new practices
" Measure other indicators (time spend, green-house gaz emission, traffic jam, use
of mobility services!)
Empower cities, regions & citizens
" Create the conditions of a successful behavioural transition in mobility
" Up-scale at territorial level to set-up and calibrate sustainable business models
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Urban Data & Information Platform
Sense and see the heartbeat of the city

For citizens
" A trusted & semantic access to the information
" Consumer & producer : rate, react, enrich
For governance bodies
" Dash-board for special events or day-to-day city life
" Polling and interaction with citizens or visitors
" Probe from big data and social networks
" For mobility, access to city services, security, public
health, staff training, etc.
" Collect metrics and data for performance analysis,
prospective and planification
For urban services providers
" Efficient way of marketing own services, specialize
and focus on core service business.
For all the economic actors
" Efficient, fluid and smooth environment
" Allowing value creation in an attractive environment.
" Get information for decision making or trade-off.
The IEEE Smart Cities Initiative
10 cities to be selected worldwide
" Associate local government leaders, city planners,
universities and local industries to explore the
issues of the ever-increasing urban population
growth
" Engaging and interacting with local inhabitants
" Increase awareness of urban environment
" In cooperation with ITU, McLuhan Foundation and
EIT ICT Labs
Guadalajara, the pilot city
A call is open to select 9 more cities
" See
http://smartcities.ieee.org/home/ieee-smart-cities-
initiative.html
" Closure on the 16
th
of May
Thank you for
your kind attention

Gilles BETIS
Urban Life & Mobility Action Line Leader
gilles.betis@eitictlabs.eu
http://www.eitictlabs.eu/
http://smartcities.ieee.org/
https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/security/what-we-do/city