Program Name
Responsible Urban Innovation
Program Synopsis
This research program aims to address contemporary urban planning and development problems by focusing on the existing and emerging state-of-the-art urban innovation advances. The program not only concentrates on finding new ways to deal with social, economic, environmental, governmental, and technology-related problems of our urban environments and communities, but also makes sure that these innovative practices, solutions, and services are fully responsible ones. This responsible urban innovation emphasis, in turn, helps in solving or alleviating the problems and subsequently securing sustainability urban futures for all. With the responsible urban innovation perspective in mind, the projects in this research program cluster around smart technologies, communities, cities, urbanism, and governance topics. The research program covers, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Autonomous demand responsive transport public acceptance
- Construction industry artificial intelligence adoption
- Emerging trends and impacts of smart homes on future living
- Energy, transport and urban infrastructures for sustainable electromobility
- Innovation district typology and performance
- Local government responsible artificial intelligence affordance
- Relationship between urban form and wind energy efficiency
- Smart urban mobility for addressing transport disadvantage
- Social media analytics for urban emergency response
- Urban smartness and smart cities and societies
Program Lead
- Prof Tan Yigitcanlar
Research Team
- Prof Tan Yigitcanlar
- A/Prof Bo Xia
- A/Prof Mirko Guaralda
- A/Prof Tim Rose
- Dr Simone Brott
Relevant Projects
