Table of Contents

Part I: Overview of Urbanization Policies and Financial Trends: A Comprehensive Introduction
1. Introduction to industry 4.0: smart cities policies and financing
Amir Hooshang Fakhimi, Mojtaba Nazarzadeh Dehbozorgi and Javad Majrouhi Sardroud

Part II: Implementing Smart Infrastructure: Some Key Challenges and Science, Technology and Innovation-Driven Policy and Financial Instruments
2. The need to localize smart infrastructure policies and financing
Louis Burns
3. Revolutionizing the localization of smart city infrastructure policies and financing
Michela Longo and Wahiba Yaici
4. Harnessing the local innovation system: an overarching solution for policy and financing instruments for promoting the localization of smart infrastructure
Michela Longo and Wahiba Yaici
5. Smart counties: technologies, considerations, characteristics, challenges, policies, and theoretical concerns
Evan Evangelopoulos
6. From community plan to clean energy infrastructure: policy, partnership, and investment
Chris Castro and R. Bruce Stephenson
7. Energy efficiency in urban planning for smart cities in the developing world
Doaa M. El-Sherif
8. Transportation policies for connected and automated mobility in smart cities
Mizanur Rahman, Steven Polunsky and Steven Jones
9. Publiceprivate-partnerships (PPP) enabled smart city funding and financing
Ali Mohammad Mirzaee and Javad Majrouhi Sardroud

Part III: Human Resources Skills Gaps
10. Preparing students for interdisciplinary work: green infrastructure curricula at Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sheila Boudreau, Gareth Gransaull, Nina-Marie Lister and Gary Pritchard
11. Teaching sustainability in metro Orlando: the evolution of the pragmatic liberal arts at Rollins college
R. Bruce Stephenson
12. Partnering with technology firms to train smart city workforces
Neena Pahuja
13. Training professional smart city workforces through a partnership with technology firms
Tuncay Ercan and Mahir Kutay
14. Training smart city workforces with a wide range of electronic and digital technologies
Doaa M. El-Sherif and Essam E. Khalil

Part IV: Lack of Financing and Well-Developed Business Models
15. Digitization, automation, operation, and monetization: the changing management of sidewalk and kerb 2000e25
Alanna Coombes and Bern Grush
16. Digitization, automation, operation, and monetization: standardizing the management of sidewalk and kerb 2025e50
Bern Grush and Alanna Coombes
17. Innovative smart applications for solid waste management
Essam E. Khalil and Doaa M. El-Sherif
18. Digital infrastructure policies for data security and privacy in smart cities
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Sara Foresti, Giovanni Livraga and Pierangela Samarati
19. Financing smart citiesdan Indian case study
Prasun Kamal Agrawal and Bipin Pradeep Kuma

Part V: Governance: Balancing Top-Down and Bottom-Up Policy Approaches
20. Policy instruments for facilitating smart city governance by promoting platforms for bottom-up participatory governance
Lidia Mierzejewska and Magdalena Wdowicka
21. Promoting platforms for bottom-up participatory governance: a policy instrument approach through the facilitation of strategic smart city governance
Carles Agustí i Hernàndez
22. Policy instruments for facilitating smart city governance
Doaa M. El-Sherif and Essam E. Khalil

Part VI: Designing Inclusive Smart Cities Policy Instruments
23. Provide affordable smart infrastructure policy applications for informal sectors
V. Padmavathi and K. Aruna
24. 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-Tair
25. Effective value capturing of mobility and public transportation through efficient urban planning
Ritu Mohanty-Padora and Bipin Pradeep Kumar

Part VII: Smart Infrastructure Design Principles and Financial Policy Approaches
26. Urban design strategies and the smart city paradigm
Mallory B.E. Baches
27. Smart City Technologies plus Nature-Based Solutions: viable and valuable resources for urban resilience
Ernesto Philibert Petit
28. Financial and technical planning of decarbonized hybrid energy systems for modern cities
Hossam A. Gabbar, Muhammad R. Abdussami and Md Ibrahim Adham
29. Reactive power compensation for voltage variation mitigation in grid with renewable energy
Om Prakash Mahela, Ashok Gocher, Baseem Khan, Sunil Agarwal, Akhil Ranjan Garg and Hassan Haes Alhelou
30. DC smart micro grid protection system
Endeshaw Solomon, Baseem Khan, Esayas Gidey, Mesfin Fanuel, Om Prakash Mahela and Hassan Haes Alhelou
31. Identification and classification of faults using Stockwell transform and decision rule
Om Prakash Mahela, Vishnu Dutt Sharma, Baseem Khan, Sunil Agarwal and Hassan Haes Alhelou
32. Evaluation of fuel production technologies by using renewable energy for smart cities
Celal Hakan Canbaz, Orhan Ekren, Banu Y. Ekren and Vikas Kumar
33. Solving traffic congestion and parking scarcity with narrow track vehicles
Richard W. Woodbur
34. Modeling and simulation for connected and automated vehicle (CAV) deployment and performance evaluation
Hossam A. Gabbar, Jing Ren and Patrick C.K. Hung
35. VUCA: volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity in our smart city and tech finance future
John Sanphillippo

Part VIII: Appendices
Appendix A: List of top smart cities and critical infrastructure policies and financing implementation and deployment companies
Appendix B: List of smart cities and critical infrastructure policies and financing products
Appendix C: List of smart cities and critical infrastructure policies and financing standards
Appendix D: List of miscellaneous smart cities and critical infrastructure policies and financing resources
Appendix E: Smart cities and critical infrastructure policies and financing frequently asked questions
Appendix F: List of smart cities and critical infrastructure policies and financing case studies
Appendix G: Answers to review questions/exercises, hands-on projects, case projects, and optimal team case project by chapter
Appendix H: Glossary

About the Author

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.