Big data, smart cities and city planning
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I define big data with respect to its size but pay particular attention to the fact that the data I am referring to is urban data, that is, data for cities that are invariably tagged to space and time. I argue that this sort of data are largely being streamed from sensors, and this represents a sea change in the kinds of data that we have about what happens where and when in cities. I describe how the growth of big data is shifting the emphasis from longer term strategic planning to short-term thinking about how cities function and can be managed, although with the possibility that over much longer periods of time, this kind of big data will become a source for information about every time horizon. By way of conclusion, I illustrate the need for new theory and analysis with respect to 6 months of smart travel card data of individual trips on Greater London’s public transport systems.
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Research on big data analytics and its application tends to deal largely with economic development and quality of life while overlooking issues related to different dimensions of sustainability.
“However, research on big data analytics and its application tends to deal largely with economic development (i.e., management, optimisation, effectiveness, innovation, productivity, etc.) and the quality of life in terms of service efficiency and betterment (e.g., [15,41,54,73,77,108]) while overlooking and barely exploring the issues related to the different dimensions of sustainability.”
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The evolving data deluge resulting from the increasing availability of data generated in continuous streams on a daily basis is pushing research on and the use of big data analytics to expand remarkably and its technologies to proliferate in urban domains on a massive scale.
“The evolving data deluge resulting from the increasing availability of the data being generated in continuous streams on daily basis (e.g., [15,23,79]) is pushing research on and the use of big data analytics to expand remarkably and its technologies to proliferate in urban domains on a massive scale.”
From On the sustainability of smart and smarter cities in the era of big data: an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary literature review (2019) · cites this paper as [15]
In a big city like London, about 45 million journeys a week are generated from the smart card used by rail and buses passengers.
“For example, in a big city like London, about 45 millions journeys a week are generated from the smart card used by rail and buses passengers (see [125].”
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- Authors
- Batty, M.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Batty, Michael
- ORCID
- Batty, Michael
- Venue
- Dialogues in Human Geography
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2013-11
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 274-279
- ISSN
- 2043-8206 (ISSN-L)
- 2043-8214
- PMC
- PMC5808818
- OpenAlex
- W2066473934
- Cited by
- 1,091
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 62.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Dialogues in Human Geography (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Media Technology › Smart Cities and Technologies
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban Planning and Governance
- Social Sciences › Transportation › Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
- Keywords
- big data, smart cities, urban data, urban planning, sensor data, urban management, short-term planning, public transport, trip data, Greater London
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