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A Measurement-Driven Approach to Understand Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Nordic Cities
Ahlers, Dirk; Driscoll, Patric Arthur; Kraemer, Frank Alexander; Anthonisen, Fredrik Valde; Krogstie, John (Journal article, 2016)Cities are main drivers for climate change mitigation and emission reduction today. However, in many cases they lack reliable baselines of emissions to validate current developments over time, assess the impact of their ... -
Analysis and Visualization of Urban Emission Measurements in Smart Cities
Ahlers, Dirk; Kraemer, Frank Alexander; Bråten, Anders Eivind; Liu, Xiufeng; Anthonisen, Fredrik Valde; Driscoll, Patrick Arthur; Krogstie, John (Chapter, 2018)Cities worldwide aim to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality for their citizens. Therefore, there is a need to implement smart city approaches to monitor, model, and understand local emissions to ... -
Co-Creating Local Energy Transitions Through Smart Cities: Piloting a Prosumer-Oriented Approach
Gall, Tjark; Carbonari, Giulia; Ahlers, Dirk; Wyckmans, Annemie (Chapter, 2020) -
Co-Creation of Positive Energy Blocks
Ahlers, Dirk; Driscoll, Patrick Arthur; Wibe, Håvard; Wyckmans, Annemie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)A main challenge in building carbon-neutral built environments is the ability to scale and replicate solutions. We examine how to develop low-carbon neighbourhoods and districts, while aiming at climate-friendly and ... -
Implementing Sustainable Urban Mobility Transitions in Positive Energy Districts
Ahlers, Dirk; Berthelsen, Bjørn Ove; Skoglund, Tor Rune; Riedesel, Kelly Kay (Chapter, 2024)This paper examines Smart Cities transition with the focus on urban mobility. We demonstrate how a multi-stakeholder, multidisciplinary approach can support integration of systems, data, people, and organisations with a ... -
The Sense and Non-Sense of PEDs — Feeding Back Practical Experiences of Positive Energy District Demonstrators into the European PED Framework Definition Development Process
Vandevyvere, Han Hendrik B.; Ahlers, Dirk; Wyckmans, Annemie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This article discusses early developments of the Positive Energy District (PED) concept, both in terms of its definition and of its implementation in real world demonstrators. Based on the specific challenges for creating ... -
Supporting Municipal Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emission Inventories Using Business Process Modeling: A Case Study of Trondheim Municipality
Ahlers, Dirk; Krogstie, John; Driscoll, Patrick Arthur; Lundli, Hans Einar; Loveland, Simon-James; Rothballer, Carsten; Wyckmans, Annemie (Journal article, 2017)Business process modeling and business process management has been used to capture, support and improve a large variety of processes and practices in the private and public sector. Traditionally what is regarded as a good ... -
Understanding Smart Cities as Social Machines
Ahlers, Dirk; Driscoll, Patrick; Löfström, Erica; Krogstie, John; Wyckmans, Annemie (Chapter, 2016)Smart Cities denote a stronger integration of information technology into the organisation of a city and the interaction and participation of its citizens. In developing the concept further, we propose to understand Smart ... -
Zero Emission Neighbourhoods in Smart Cities. Definition, Key Performance Indicators and Assessment Criteria: Version 2.0
Wiik, Marianne Rose Kjendseth; Fufa, Selamawit Mamo; Fjellheim, Kristin; Lien, Synne Krekling; Krogstie, John; Ahlers, Dirk; Wyckmans, Annemie; Driscoll, Patrick Arthur; Brattebø, Helge; Gustavsen, Arild (ZEN Report;, Research report, 2021)This document outlines the definition, key performance indicators (KPI) and assessment criteria for the Research Centre on Zero Emission Neighbourhoods in Smart Cities (ZEN research centre). This second version of the ZEN ... -
Zero Emission Neighbourhoods in Smart Cities: Definition, Key Performance Indicators and Assessment Criteria: Version 1.0
Wiik, Marianne Rose Kjendseth; Fufa, Selamawit Mamo; Krogstie, John; Ahlers, Dirk; Wyckmans, Annemie; Driscoll, Patrick Arthur; Brattebø, Helge; Gustavsen, Arild (ZEN Report;, Research report, 2018)This document outlines the definition, key performance indicators (KPI) and assessment criteria for the Research Centre on Zero Emission Neighbourhoods in Smart Cities (ZEN research centre). This first version of the ZEN ...