DEVELOPMENT OF THE ROMANIAN CITIES BASED ON A EUROPEAN SMART CITY CONCEPT

At the European level, a new concept and a new direction in city development are arising based on new technologies and new approaches of urban life, this being called "Smart City". A city becomes "smart" when the city management and the citizens employ smart strategies, smart tools, smart technologies and smart results of applying to all smart things in the urban area and to the area influenced by the city. The authors present the state of the art in terms of conceptual approach as well as in terms of technological approach at the European level with the goal to move Romanian cities towards this target based on European recommendations and experiences. The authors have developed a methodology for smart city modeling as a reference for future urban development. Based on this methodology the target or reference model will be compared with a real model of the city in terms of discovering necessary actions to fill the gaps or differences between models. The paper is focused on the smart mobility component of the city and authors performed a correlation between the different components of the smart city and among the high-level functions of smart mobility. The paper is concluded with some recommendations and future research activities to elaborate a more detailed model employing software tools (for instance, Matlab and Simulink) and including more variables.