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Rotterdam's rather unique urban infrastructure offers plenty of opportunities to achieve its pillars of Digitalisation & Sustainable and Renewable Energy. Their Roadmap leads the way!
July 08, 2019
The Netherlands has developed a national Smart City Strategy and their five largest cities are translating it to their own city
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Introduction
Rotterdam is the second largest city of the Netherlands with over 640.000 inhabitants in 2018. It is a multicultural city with approximately 170 different nationalities.
Being vastly destroyed during the second World War, the city is rather uniquely characterized by a combination of a few historic parts in the city centre (such as the City Hall and an old harbor area called “Historic Delfshaven”) and a majority of areas that are newly constructed (for example the direct surroundings of what is now Rotterdam Central Station).
Having such a uniquely characterized city infrastructure, there is ample opportunity for the city to invest in smart city projects. This is in contrast with cities that mostly consist of historic centres such as in Amsterdam, which have to find (usually suburban) areas to experiment with Smart City projects.
Rotterdam is also the host of Europe’s largest port. Until 2004, the Port of Rotterdam was the busiest port in the world (in terms of throughput1) and is internationally known for being the first port that makes use of Automated Guided Vehicles and automated terminals.
1. Throughput
2. Roadmap Next Economy – Samen bouwen aan de toekomst van de regio Zuid-Holland
3. Rotterdam 3D
4. Vaststelling Ruimtelijk Raamwerk M4H - M4H Rotterdam
5. BlueCity Visie
6. Digital infrastructure
7. Rotterdam sends hyper-smart container on trip around the world
8. Program - PortXL
9. Port of Rotterdam aims to take the lead in the energy transition
10 Jun 2019 : 10:00
Netherlands
Founder of Next Generation City
MSc. International Management & Msc. IT and Strategic Management
It is my ambition to play a connecting role in initiatives that further shape the future of cities and society in relation to the technological challenges they face.