With the growing number of people living in cities, the challenges faced by governments in providing an acceptable standard of service delivery are immense. ‘Smart cities’ is a new and innovative approach that has been formulated over the past few years in order to use current infrastructure and resources more effectively and efficiently. For a smart city to work, large amounts of information m...

Digital city construction brings many conveniences for people all over the world at present and in the future. Grid platform is a kind of better platform which integrates existing resources to share. This paper combines WebGIS technology with grid technology. It briefly puts forward the key technologies to make people understand concerned technology used in the system, and gives system framewor...

The term “Smart City” is to-date widely used, but little clarity appears in the definition behind it. Several approaches led to a growing emphasis on the combined use of geographic information and communication technology to build cognitive frameworks in city planning and management. The present paper tackles an effort to define ‘smart cities’ and to identify both elements of smartness, and cri...

The national goal of the federal government of Germany is to have one million fully electric vehicles in use until year 2020. Since an average tour of vehicles in inner-city logistic is about 80km, it is promising that such logistic companies use electric vehicles for their tours. However, there are some reasons for doubts in companies: unknown behaviors, inaccurate range forecasts, and high co...

This contribution wishes to contribute to the present controversies and discussions about smart cities by sketching a framework for the affective smart city.