Turkey's Transformation Movement of Smart Cities

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Within the context of the "Transformation Movement of Smart Cities", studies were started in Kayseri from the three cities planned to be transformed into "smart cities" until 2023.

Erdem Akcıl, Chairman of the Public Technology Platform (KTP), told AA correspondent that they have been working on smart cities for 3 years as a platform and stated that these projects are prepared with security, savings and technological facilities that facilitate daily life.

Akcıl stated that until 2023, Sakarya, Gaziantep and Kayseri will be turned into a smart city within the context of "Transformation Movements in Smart City", he said that the workings were started in Kayseri in the first stage.

He said that the project aimed to improve the traffic problems by 25 percent. Akcil explained that intelligent intersections and vehicle numbers will be determined by establishing an inter-agency business association, and the duration of traffic lights will be adjusted with sensors.

Emergency vehicles such as ambulances and firefighters will be monitored by GPS to provide the transition superiority, indicating the integration of bicycles with public transport will be provided in the project, noted that the establishment of smart bicycle stops.

Akcıl stated that the project included many sub-details such as standardization of transportation cards by merging transportation cards, advance notice of bus driver from disabled or elderly passengers with smart stops.

"We will make life easier with projects related to transportation"
Explaining that the cities that will be established in Turkey are aiming to be able to compete with the smart cities in the world, Akcıl noted that many places in the world such as London, Barcelona, Amsterdam and New York, which are known as intelligent cities, benefit from health, security and environment.

Akcıl said that 70 per cent of the smart city concept that touches human life in Turkey is about transportation and said, "How are we going to prevent the accidents in cities and how to reduce traffic? She said.

Pointing out that the main element of intelligent urbanization in Turkey is transportation, Akcıl said:

"We aim to make life easier for people with projects related to transportation in Turkey in the first place.We will be a country of 90 million in 2030. As Turkey, we must already plan the infrastructure works for the future.These systems will also be economic aspects.We will import these systems or we will do with our own engineers As our platform, our most important task is bringing the ecosystem of smart city building, public institutions, municipalities, private sector and universities together to bring this issue to the agenda of the government.

"Stakeholders will be together for better governance of cities"
In order to better manage cities in the future, Akcıl stated that all stakeholders will come together at the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Cities, and he reported that the future of life and cities will be discussed in the event.

Pointing out that the slogan of the event to be realized on May 24th with the theme "Time for Innovation and Change for Cities" is "Preliminary Display of the Future", Akcil pointed out the importance of a fair and safe society in the new urbanism concept that should take social welfare as a basis.

Emphasizing that the delegations and speakers from Italy, Poland, USA and Qatar will be in consultation with 45 local government representatives, Mr. Akcil said, "Philip Bane, the Smart City Council Ceo, considered the world's most important urban authority, Smart cities in the world will tell their practices. " said.

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