Copenhagen, as the Smartest Capital in the European Union?

Dóra Szendi, Tekla Sebestyénné Szép and Zoltán Nagy
United 4 Bonafini Bindair Kft. 1016 Budapest, Mészáros

Abstract

Nowadays, with accelerating globalization, the smart city development and the application of smart technologies gain emphasis on almost every continent. The cause for this is that the cities have to react to rapidly changing conditions (e.g. challenges of increasing population, city services, problems of the economies of scale), and for this they need new and up-to-date solutions. In this context, the concept of smart cities can offer innovative solutions for the future of cities. This study offers a complex index based on the synthesis of measurement methods, which can measure and rank the performance of smart cities by six components. The analysis of the EU28 capitals shows that, in 2015, the best performing city among those analysed was Copenhagen, followed by Stockholm and Luxembourg. It is important to mention that in the given components dispersion of values among the best and worst performing cities is huge.


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