Scientific and practical foundations and business processes for the sustainable development of Smart City

St. Petersburg State Marine University, St. Petersburg, Russia

^* Corresponding author: krasovskaya_inna@list.ru

Abstract

The article investigates scientific and practical issues of transport logistics; the conceptual and methodological mechanisms of formation of the “Smart City” strategy are considered and its main business processes are interpreted; the author’s description of the Internet of Things as a high-tech network of deterministic mechanisms, logistic algorithms, business processes and technical and technological devices, interconnected with each other and with the external socio-economic environment is presented; the international experience of the formation and functioning of transport and logistics business processes of “smart cities” was critically rethought; reducing costs, ensuring socio-economic growth and sustainability, while improving the quality of services and the life of citizens, are justified as fundamental tasks of smart city projects; studied the socio-economic objectives of the Smart City of St. Petersburg project, in particular, the formation of a list of measures to optimize business processes, the creation of an external economic environment that would facilitate the attraction of non-budgetary funding sources for the implementation of projects, the development of a methodology for monitoring indicators of socio-economic development and territorial planning of St. Petersburg; identified the main socio-economic advantages of the introduction of smart parking in relation to the infrastructures of smart cities and their residents; empirically confirmed the effectiveness of the implementation of an intelligent parking management system based on the “Internet of Things” technology in the social and economic conditions of St. Petersburg; the characteristic of transport and logistics advantages of the strategy “Smart city of St. Petersburg” is provided.