This document discusses the Future Cities @ U.Porto program at the University of Porto. It provides context that the city of Porto is a mid-sized European city with a multi-modal transportation system and fiber optic internet backbone. The University of Porto has over 31,000 students across 14 schools focusing on fields like computation, control, communication, art, social sciences, and engineering. The Future Cities program aims to form interdisciplinary teams to build urban testbeds, work with end users, share data, solve real-world problems with industry partners, and disseminate results. It collaborates with universities, industrial partners, municipalities, and government agencies with advisory support.

1. Future Cities @ U.Porto
João Barros
Universidade do Porto

2. Why do we care about cities?

3. Porto
Midsized European city
Multi-modal transportation system
Fiber-optical Internet backbone
Entrepreneurial tradition
41km2 of Real Life

4. Universidade do Porto
• Founded in 1911 (roots in the
18th century)
• 14 different schools
• ~31000 students
• ~6000 graduate students
• ~2300 professors
• 70 research institutes

5. Computation
Control Communication
Art & Design Social Sciences

6. 1. Form inter-disciplinary teams

7. 2. Build world-class testbeds for urban-scale experiments

8. 3. Work closely with end users from day one

9. 4. Share data sets

10. 5. Solve real-world problems with industry partners

11. 6. Bring the results out to the world.

12. Future Cities @ U.Porto
Collaborators University of Porto Partners
KTH School of Engineering Industrial Affiliates
UCL
School of Psychology and
Education Sciences
Municipalities
Supelec
Carnegie Mellon School of Sciences Government Agencies
MIT
…
Scientific Advisory Future
Board Test beds & Living labs in Porto
Cities

13. Cloud

14. Porto – Our Living Lab for Future Cities