Comparative analysis of standardized indicators for Smart sustainable cities: What indicators and standards to use and when?

City managers need indicators for target setting, performance assessment, monitoring, management and decision-making purposes. The choice of the most suitable indicator framework is crucial, but difficult, as it requires expert knowledge. To help cities in their choice, this paper compares seven recently published indicator standards for Smart sustainable cities. A taxonomy was developed to evaluate each of their 413 indicators against five conceptual urban focuses (types of urban sustainability and smartness), ten sectoral application domains (energy, transport, ICT, economy, etc.) and five indicator types (input, process, output, outcome, impact). The results clearly discriminate between indicator standards…

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  European Commission

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• TT
  Teknologian Tutkimuskeskus VTT
• H2
  Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
• EC
  EIT Climate-KIC