'Smart City Wien': Vienna's Stepping Stone into the European Future of Technology and Climate

摘要

In the past few decades, Vienna became an international forerunner with regard to environmental quality and quality of life. Vienna's decade-long efforts to build this reputation successfully culminated in the top positions Vienna scored in the international city ranking of the Mercer surveys in the last two years. The challenges on global energy and climate issues ask Vienna to continuously participate in the research of technologies, systems and strategies. The combination of high regional economic power, above-average knowledge capital and concentration of latest technologies makes the city best suitable to act as an urban test site for future demonstrating sustainable and climate-friendly (urban) lifestyles. Addressing the global challenges within the "Smart City Wien" initiative, the city wants to take the opportunity to position itself as a leader in research and technology in Europe. Therefor the City of Vienna is project leader of the "Smart City Wien" project, which was proposed for the Call "Smart-Energy Demo - Fit for SET" program by the Austrian Climate and Energy. The project includes a sequence of three forums building the main framework of a stakeholder process and producing the following outputs: (1) a long term vision of Vienna's city-wide energy system ("Smart Energy Vision 2050") (2) a "Roadmap for 2020 and beyond" that will enable the city to fulfill this long term vision while meeting its mid-term (2020) energy targets and (3) an "Action Plan for 2012-2015" developing a plan for the implementation of measures that will form the roadmap. During these forums the stakeholders will receive expert support regarding the technical and non-technical solutions that are at their disposal to meet their targets. In a first project phase a structured overview on the latest available technologies is elaborated in order to analyse their impact in the scenarios designed within the forums. This includes the adaptation of simulation tools in order to allow a rapid and quantitative scenario evaluation. Further important goals of the project are also the identification and supervision of demonstration projects. A particular asset of the "Smart City Wien" project is its focus on the spatial development of the city oriented towards energy efficiency and climate protection objectives. For this reason, the "Smart City Wien" process, the vision for Vienna's energy and climate protection future to be developed thereunder and the related demonstration projects staking out a "smart" development path for Vienna will be closely linked to the preparation of the new Urban Development Plan. This will also ensure that the city's diverse spatial, social and economic structures have been taken into account. Another key issue is the involvement of users in the implementation of new technologies. The "Smart City Wien" project as described here is one part of a broader "Smart City Wien" initiative. The project consortium under the lead of the City of Vienna enables the partners to share a joint "Big Project Picture", fosters a good communication between the project partners as well as a common understanding of the links between activities, reporting and payment of funds. Communication plans on various levels are set up in order to facilitate harmonized communication towards the various types of target audience.