Business & Management
In the era of Smart Cities, learn the principles of urban infrastructure management and find ways to incorporate smart technologies into legacy infrastructures.

Course Details

Language English
Duration 5 week
Effort 4 hour/week
Description

The introduction of Smart urban technologies into legacy infrastructures has resulted in numerous challenges and opportunities for contemporary cities and will continue to do so. This course will help you to understand how to make the best of these smart technologies in your cities’ legacy infrastructures.

Over the past few years, advances in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have significantly challenged the traditionally stable land scape of urban infrastructure service provision. This has resulted in increasing interest from both technology vendors and public authorities in the transition of cities towards so-called “Smart Cities”. Although such “Smart technologies” can provide immense opportunities for citizens and service providers alike, the ICTs often act as disruptive innovators of urban infrastructure service provision.
In this MOOC, you will gain a thorough understanding of the challenges and opportunities associated with the Smart urban infrastructures, namely Smart urban transportation and Smart urban energy systems. Over the journey of this 5-week online course you will learn about the most important principles for the management of Smart urban infrastructures as well as the applications of these principles in the transportation and energy sectors.

What you will learn


  • The nature of disruptive innovations (smart technologies) in urban infrastructure systems

  • State-of-the-art strategies that can be used for “smart infrastructure” solutions in cities, while effectively managing the transition from legacy infrastructures to smart systems

  • Management of the transition phase from legacy infrastructure systems to smart cities by supporting innovations while avoiding early lock-in

  • Applications for the materials learned in this course, within the context of the management of “smart urban transportation systems” as well as “smart urban energy systems”

Prerequisites

This course does not have any prerequisites. However, to take the most away from of this MOOC, we strongly encourage you to enroll in our other MOOC on the Management of Urban Infrastructures, which has been widely praised by learners.

Course instructors

Matthias Finger

Prof. Matthias Finger has been a Professor of Management of Network Industries at EPFL since 2002. As of 2010 he also directs the Transport Area of the Florence School of Regulation at the European University Institute. He holds a PhD in Political Science…

Maxime Audouin

Maxime Audouin holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering, and a Master of Science in Energy Management from EPFL, Switzerland. He joined the Chair Management of Network Industries, in the College of Management of Technology at EPFL in 2015 …

Mohamad Razaghi

Dr. Mohamad Razaghi is the general manager of the IGLUS (Innovative Governance of Large Urban Systems) project at EPFL, Switzerland. He was in charge of the project from its initiation phase in 2012 and played a key role in developing several training off…

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