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