Sachin K. Mangla

Sunil Luthra

Suresh Jakhar

Yash Paul Singh Berwal

Abstract

Smart city is becoming buzz word in modern era. Smart Cities mainly focused on the natural resources and energy, transport and mobility, buildings, living government, and economy of people. The idea of smart city is to enhance the lifestyle and generate employment from nations' contexts. For the viewpoint of most developing countries like, India will become heavily populated country in the world and making home will be the biggest challenge for everyone. In addition, for the perspective of India, several other major challenges could be – pollution and quality of air, deficiency of resources, community welfare, waste disposal, etc. Therefore, this is the time to develop more sustainable cities and enhance the quality of life. However, there are possibilities for the success/failure of the concept of smart cities, which are based on understanding of many factors related to developing the smart cities. In the present work, an effort has been made to recognize and empirically analyze key success factors to develop smart cities. Initially, 20 key success factors were identified from extensive literature support. A questionnaire was developed to collect the data. The collected data was analysed with the help of explanatory factor analysis. Results suggested the important five dimensions (People and communities; Infrastructure; Proper use of resources; Transportation and Good Governance) of success factors to develop smart cities. The findings of present research would be useful for regulatory bodies and policy makers to designing policies and proposing strategies to make smart cities mission realistic in India.

Keywords- Key success factors, Smart city, Empirical analysis, Questionnaire based survey, Explanatory Factor Analysis (EFA).