18 SMART CITIES AND COMMUNITIES


CASE STUDY: PETERBOROUGH


Trevor Gibson is the Smart City Leadership & Development Manager for Opportunity Peterborough, an economic development company which is owned and part-funded by Peterborough City Council.


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revor has been involved with the development of smart city thinking since 2013 and has been a member of numerous BSI technical committees that have produced


the suite of smart city PAS documents. “The big challenges facing cities today include air quality and traffi c congestion. Cities are inevitably complex places with signifi cant impacts on the local and global environment infl uenced by how we


manufacture, process and consume resources and manage waste.


“Standards provide a


way of looking at and, to an extent, simplifying a city;


breaking down challenges into bite sized chunks with a clear framework for strategy development.


“This creates a strong momentum of


cities working together, helps overcome silos between different departments and services, and provides a vehicle for capturing case


studies so others can learn from experiences in the UK and internationally. The status and reputation of BSI gives gravitas to many of the ideas and concepts. “We used PAS 181 in developing the Future Peterborough Framework back in 2015 which set out our approach to becoming a smart city,” said Trevor.


SMART CITY STANDARDS CLICK TO READ


“We also developed the Smart City Leadership Programme in partnership with BSI and UrbanDNA and tested the approach in Peterborough. This helped us develop a smart city roadmap using measurement techniques embedded in the standards themselves. We’ve since


gone on to successfully run the programme across cities and states in


India and spoken at conferences around the world to share our insight and expertise.” Trevor and his colleagues in Peterborough


have also found PAS 183 a valuable guide. “The standard has helped our data team


in Peterborough to carry out data-focused work to understand the challenges and connections at a more granular level.” Linked to its smart city work, Peterborough has also established the Circular Peterborough initiative, which aims to embed circular economy principles and approaches at city scale to signifi cantly reduce its carbon footprint. To support this initiative, it has used BS 8001, a guide to the principles of the Circular Economy. “There are many things which can be done locally, for example, outputs from one business traditionally regarded as waste can become a valuable resource to another company. The overall aim is to achieve zero waste with the circular fl ow of resources becoming ever smaller,” said Trevor. “The ‘smart city’ concept is about getting leaders to think about the city in a new integrated way as a mechanism for driving change. The circular economy approach can be part of the solution to the challenges we face around pollution, transport, asset utilization and ultimately, climate change.”


Peterborough is one of the UK’s fi rst gigabit cities. The full fi bre network is being expanded to reach nearly every home and business in the city


PETERBOROUGH RIVALS NEW YORK FOR ‘WORLD’S SMARTEST CITY’ TITLE


In 2015 Peterborough won the title of ‘World Smart City’ for its focus on sustainability and resident engagement. Peterborough was in good company; the title went to New York the following year. “Because PAS 181 simplifi ed the smart city concept, it enabled us to communicate the approach much more clearly to city leaders on a subject that could otherwise seem inaccessible,” said Trevor. To provide an infrastructure for the data fl ows that underpin a smart city, Peterborough became the UK’s fi rst gigabit city, laying 120 kilometres of embedded fi bre optic cable. This allows businesses and individuals to transmit and receive data much more quickly and securely than has been possible in the past.


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