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Urban Resilience Practices To Climate
Change: Case Of Denizli

Denizli Metropolitan Municipality categorizes the smart applications in the
institution and organizations within the municipality in 6 different categories.
These categories are transportation, environment, energy, water management,
information systems and smart applications. The smart city applications within
each category are given in the tables (Tables 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8).
Table 3: Smart city applications in the field of transportation

Project The Aim of the Project Advantages
With the system to be provided to manage
the city transport network more efficiently,
affectively, in a planned, expandable, and
sustainable manner, creating a traffic control In terms of fuel consumption, In rush
area, gaining data related to transportation hours, in a junction used by around
Traffic network and relevant data, automatically 24.500 vehicles per hour, the wasted
Management updating the signalized junctions amount will be reduced. This will
System decrease air pollution and greenhouse
Project periods through traffic data. Creating gas emissions.
traffic congestion maps, live surveillance
through traffic cameras with recording
function, applications to create
technological infrastructure towards
different purposes in the future.
In consecutive signalized junctions, drivers With the Green Wave System, citizens
may end up consistently at red lights. The
Green Wave coordinated traffic signalization to solve can save fuel as well as time.
System
this issue is usually called “green wave
coordination systems”
Thanks to the location information,
Thanks to this system, the momentary
information (location, distance, speed, whether the drivers use the vehicles
Vehicle within the given time and duties can
Tracking etc.) about vehicles can be tracked online be reported. This report can give
through a central computer as well as
System information about momentary or past
smart phones, and detailed reports can be locations of the vehicles as well as the
issued.
distance they have travelled.
Thanks to smart card application, Denizli
Card has been put into use. The card
Smart Card allows citizens to choose the suitable It is possible to maintain safety through
and Free decreasing accident risks. Moreover,
Wi-Fi Services card for themselves depending on the thanks to smart data, it is easier to reach
on Buses frequency of rides. Also, instead of the now accurate information
forbidden use of cash, all bus rides can be
paid for through contactless payment.

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