Smart Cities Policies and Financing

John Vacca is an independent information technology consultant and researcher, professional writer, editor, reviewer, and author based in Pomeroy, Ohio, USA. Since 1982, John has authored, edited, and published more than 85 books, including Smart Cities Policies and Financing: Approaches and Solutions, Elsevier; Cloud Computing Security: Foundations and Challenges, Taylor and Francis/CRC Press; Solving Urban Infrastructure Problems Using Smart City Technologies: Handbook on Planning, Design, Development, and Regulation, Elsevier; Online Terrorist Propaganda, Recruitment, and Radicalization, Taylor and Francis/CRC Press; Nanoscale Networking and Communications Handbook, Taylor and Francis/CRC Press; Handbook of Sensor Networking: Advanced Technologies and Applications, Taylor and Francis/CRC Press; Network and System Security 2/e, Elsevier/Syngress; Cyber Security and IT Infrastructure Protection, Elsevier/Syngress; and Managing Information Security 2/e, Elsevier/Syngress; among many others. John was a Configuration Management Specialist, Computer Specialist, and the Computer Security Official (CSO) for NASA’s space station program (Freedom) and the International Space Station Program from 1988 until his retirement from NASA in 1995. John has also been a security consultant for major motion pictures, including AntiTrust, Collateral, and Identity Theft: The Michelle Brown Story. He received his M.Sc. from Kansas State University and an MBA from Emporia State University and served in the United States Air Force from 1967-1971.

• Part I: Overview of Urbanization Policies and Financial Trends: A Comprehensive Introduction1. Introduction to industry 4.0: smart cities policies and financingAmir Hooshang Fakhimi, Mojtaba Nazarzadeh Dehbozorgi and Javad Majrouhi SardroudPart II: Implementing Smart Infrastructure: Some Key Challenges and Science, Technology and Innovation-Driven Policy and Financial Instruments2. The need to localize smart infrastructure policies and financingLouis Burns3. Revolutionizing the localization of smart city infrastructure policies and financingMichela Longo and Wahiba Yaici4. Harnessing the local innovation system: an overarching solution for policy and financing instruments for promoting the localization of smart infrastructureMichela Longo and Wahiba Yaici5. Smart counties: technologies, considerations, characteristics, challenges, policies, and theoretical concernsEvan Evangelopoulos6. From community plan to clean energy infrastructure: policy, partnership, and investmentChris Castro and R. Bruce Stephenson7. Energy efficiency in urban planning for smart cities in the developing worldDoaa M. El-Sherif8. Transportation policies for connected and automated mobility in smart citiesMizanur Rahman, Steven Polunsky and Steven Jones9. Publiceprivate-partnerships (PPP) enabled smart city funding and financingAli Mohammad Mirzaee and Javad Majrouhi SardroudPart III: Human Resources Skills Gaps10. Preparing students for interdisciplinary work: green infrastructure curricula at Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaSheila Boudreau, Gareth Gransaull, Nina-Marie Lister and Gary Pritchard11. Teaching sustainability in metro Orlando: the evolution of the pragmatic liberal arts at Rollins collegeR. Bruce Stephenson12. Partnering with technology firms to train smart city workforcesNeena Pahuja13. Training professional smart city workforces through a partnership with technology firmsTuncay Ercan and Mahir Kutay14. Training smart city workforces with a wide range of electronic and digital technologiesDoaa M. El-Sherif and Essam E. KhalilPart IV: Lack of Financing and Well-Developed Business Models15. Digitization, automation, operation, and monetization: the changing management of sidewalk and kerb 2000e25Alanna Coombes and Bern Grush16. Digitization, automation, operation, and monetization: standardizing the management of sidewalk and kerb 2025e50Bern Grush and Alanna Coombes17. Innovative smart applications for solid waste managementEssam E. Khalil and Doaa M. El-Sherif18. Digital infrastructure policies for data security and privacy in smart citiesSabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Sara Foresti, Giovanni Livraga and Pierangela Samarati19. Financing smart citiesdan Indian case studyPrasun Kamal Agrawal and Bipin Pradeep KumaPart V: Governance: Balancing Top-Down and Bottom-Up Policy Approaches20. Policy instruments for facilitating smart city governance by promoting platforms for bottom-up participatory governanceLidia Mierzejewska and Magdalena Wdowicka21. Promoting platforms for bottom-up participatory governance: a policy instrument approach through the facilitation of strategic smart city governanceCarles Agustí i Hernàndez22. Policy instruments for facilitating smart city governanceDoaa M. El-Sherif and Essam E. KhalilPart VI: Designing Inclusive Smart Cities Policy Instruments23. Provide affordable smart infrastructure policy applications for informal sectorsV. Padmavathi and K. Aruna24. Customizable service level agreement (SLA) generator platform using FCAPS management to enhance Quality of Experience (QoE) on Internet of Things (IoT)Cathryn Peoples, Adrian Moore, Mohammad Zoualfaghari, Parag Kulkarni and Mamun Abu-Tair25. Effective value capturing of mobility and public transportation through efficient urban planningRitu Mohanty-Padora and Bipin Pradeep KumarPart VII: Smart Infrastructure Design Principles and Financial Policy Approaches26. Urban design strategies and the smart city paradigmMallory B.E. Baches27. Smart City Technologies plus Nature-Based Solutions: viable and valuable resources for urban resilienceErnesto Philibert Petit28. Financial and technical planning of decarbonized hybrid energy systems for modern citiesHossam A. Gabbar, Muhammad R. Abdussami and Md Ibrahim Adham29. Reactive power compensation for voltage variation mitigation in grid with renewable energyOm Prakash Mahela, Ashok Gocher, Baseem Khan, Sunil Agarwal, Akhil Ranjan Garg and Hassan Haes Alhelou30. DC smart micro grid protection systemEndeshaw Solomon, Baseem Khan, Esayas Gidey, Mesfin Fanuel, Om Prakash Mahela and Hassan Haes Alhelou31. Identification and classification of faults using Stockwell transform and decision ruleOm Prakash Mahela, Vishnu Dutt Sharma, Baseem Khan, Sunil Agarwal and Hassan Haes Alhelou32. Evaluation of fuel production technologies by using renewable energy for smart citiesCelal Hakan Canbaz, Orhan Ekren, Banu Y. Ekren and Vikas Kumar33. Solving traffic congestion and parking scarcity with narrow track vehiclesRichard W. Woodbur34. Modeling and simulation for connected and automated vehicle (CAV) deployment and performance evaluationHossam A. Gabbar, Jing Ren and Patrick C.K. Hung35. VUCA: volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity in our smart city and tech finance futureJohn SanphillippoPart VIII: AppendicesAppendix A: List of top smart cities and critical infrastructure policies and financing implementation and deployment companiesAppendix B: List of smart cities and critical infrastructure policies and financing productsAppendix C: List of smart cities and critical infrastructure policies and financing standardsAppendix D: List of miscellaneous smart cities and critical infrastructure policies and financing resourcesAppendix E: Smart cities and critical infrastructure policies and financing frequently asked questionsAppendix F: List of smart cities and critical infrastructure policies and financing case studiesAppendix G: Answers to review questions/exercises, hands-on projects, case projects, and optimal team case project by chapterAppendix H: Glossary