Irish Institute of Digital Business, Dublin City University, D09 Y5N0 Dublin, Ireland.
Collins College of Business, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK 74104, USA.
Sensors (Basel). 2023 Jan 26;23(3):1399. doi: 10.3390/s23031399.
Streets perform a number of important functions and have a wide range of activities performed in them. There is a small but growing focus on streets as a more generalisable, atomised, and therefore more manageable unit of development and analysis than cities. Despite the public realm being one of the largest physical spaces on streets, the impact and potential of digitalisation projects on this realm is rarely considered. In this article, the smartness of a street is derived from the cyber-physical social infrastructure in the public realm, including data obtained from sensors, the interconnection between different services, technologies and social actors, intelligence derived from analysis of the data, and optimisation of operations within a street. This article conceptualises smart streets as basic units of urban space that leverage cyber-physical social infrastructure to provide and enable enhanced services to and between stakeholders, and through stakeholders' use of the street, generate data to optimise its services, capabilities, and value to stakeholders. A proposed conceptual framework is used to identify and explore how streets can be augmented and create value through cyber-physical social infrastructure and digital enhancements. We conclude with a discussion of future avenues of research.
街道具有许多重要功能，并且在其中进行着各种各样的活动。人们越来越关注街道作为一个更具通用性、原子化的、因此更易于管理的发展和分析单元，而不是城市。尽管公共领域是街道上最大的物理空间之一，但数字化项目对这一领域的影响和潜力很少被考虑到。在本文中，街道的智能化源自公共领域中的网络物理社会基础设施，包括从传感器获得的数据、不同服务、技术和社会行为者之间的互联、从数据分析中得出的智能以及街道内运营的优化。本文将智能街道概念化为城市空间的基本单元，利用网络物理社会基础设施为利益相关者提供和增强服务，并通过利益相关者对街道的使用，生成数据以优化其服务、功能和对利益相关者的价值。本文提出了一个概念框架，用于识别和探讨如何通过网络物理社会基础设施和数字增强来增强街道并创造价值。最后，我们讨论了未来的研究方向。
