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96th OGC Technical Committee

Nottingham, UK

John R. Herring

15 September 2015

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The Future of Urban PlanningSmart cities and other hobgoblins of the coming chaos

• Software applications change faster today than they did before. (not news, see Moore’s Law; it can also work in software)

• Everyone is looking for the next “big thing” and once they find it, they start looking for things that their next big thing will do. What they usually find is someone else’s next big thing. (everyone thinks they are the center, they are all right)

• In this primordial soup of ideas, things combine the same way they did in the original primordial soup, and complexity gets more complex, entropy decreases and the second law of thermodynamics never seems to work. (life began; see self- or autocatalytic sets)

• It looks from the outside as if the internet is chaotic, but it is the epitome of a self-organizing system, mainly due to the new common understanding that applications must interoperate. (complexity theory; Thom’s Catastrophe Theory; fractals)

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Application Parts

• Classic Urban Planning– Long term planning and balancing of priorities

• E-Government– Community involvement on decision processes

• Emergency Services• Traffic Global Optimization

– Coordination of multiple “in car” navigation to avoid “grid lock”• Public Transportation

– Mobile asset-allocation to optimize individual outcomes• Indoor/Outdoor Navigation

– Multimodal seamless navigation• Location Based Services• Land Infrastructure• Moving Features

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Technology Parts

• Smart City — communication infrastructure• Smart Grid — power management• Big Data — analysis of data• Facilities Management — planning and maintenance of the

physical infrastructure• Sensors Web & Internet of Things — data collection• Augmented Reality• Distributed Data bases• Dijkstra's Algorithm

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What OGC’s might want to do

• Merge common groups based on close relationships or common requirements

• Form umbrella groups covering groups needing to – interoperate, or coexist (Smart City, Grid and Urban Planning– use common general functionality in specific cases (e.g. Big Data)

• Create temporary groups or forums to identify external requirements on core functionalisy (eg. Big Data, Indoor/Outdoor Navigation)