Glasgow won a £24 million UK government grant in 2013 to become one of the UK's first smart cities. The money is being used for projects that create better services for citizens through apps providing real-time transportation information, and allow citizens to report issues like potholes or missed bin collections via an app. It is also being invested in analytical software and security cameras to help prevent crime and monitor energy usage to provide gas and electricity to poorer areas experiencing fuel poverty.

1. 1.
Glasgow
What’s Makes Glasgow
Special?
It’s All About The
Apps!
1. Glasgow Cycling –
provides information
such as bike stations and
repair shops to help
make our journeys as
seamless as possible.
2. Glasgow Walking – Find
a side to Glasgow you
might not know.
Included in the app is a
variety of guided walks
all around the city that
reveal the stories and
fabric of the city to help
you discover Glasgow all
over again.
3. Glasgow Energy -
Compare and contrast
your home’s energy
efficiency with the rest of
the city and understand
how you can make
savings and
improvements with the
energy app.
 Glasgow is the fourth-
largest city by population
in the UK, after London,
Birmingham and Leeds.
 Glasgow city has the
biggest economy in
Scotland. The greater
Glasgow area is a great
place to live and work, as
it is easy to commute into
the city centre.
 Glasgow beat 29 other
cities to win the funding
in a competition
organised by the UK
Government's
Technology Strategy
Board (TSB).
Glasgow won £24m UK
government grant in 2013
intended to make it one of
the UK's first smart cities.
The £24m is intended to be
used for:
1. Investing in projects to
help demonstrate how
a city of future might
work
2. Creating better
services for
Glaswegians, with real
time information about
traffic and apps to
check that buses and
trains are on time.
3. Creating an app that
would allow the
council receive issues
in regards to potholes
and missing bin
collections.
4. Investing In using
analytical software and
security cameras to
help identify and
prevent crime in city
and monitor energy
levels to find new
ways of providing gas
and electricity to
poorer areas where
there’s fuel poverty.

2. More About
Glasgow
Future City Glasgow Project
The different approaches that have been used
so far to achieve the future city project are:
1. Social Transport - As Scotland’s largest local
authority, Glasgow City Council has a
significant requirement for a modern,
efficient social transport fleet to transport
children with additional support needs, adults
with learning disabilities and people
attending residential or day care services
across the city.
This free transport service meets varied travel needs
but traditionally, it has used a manual scheduling and
routing system, which offers, limited flexibility. The
council’s social transport fleet had to be updated to
become a more dynamic and efficient demand for
responsive social transport service.
1. Glasgow is home to
more than 100 cultural
organisations including
Scotland’s national
orchestra, theatre,
opera, and ballet
companies and is also
blazing an
internationally
acclaimed trail in
contemporary art,
design and music.
2. Glasgow has been
ranked number eleven
out of twenty-fivein
the 2010 world league
of ultimate sports
cities, according to new
research compiled by
Sport Business. The
leading monthly
magazine for the
business of sport.
3. Glasgow is a UNESCO
City of Music and was
dubbed by Time
Magazine as “Europe’s
Secret Capital of
Music”.
2. Glasgow Operations Centre - Glasgow
Operations Centre is a state-of-the-art
integrated traffic and public safety
management system
The facility has the capability to provide a
coordinated, real-time, intelligence-led,
response to incidents large and small across
the city, placing Glasgow at the leading edge of
smart city management.
3. Citizen Engagement – As part of the
process to look at what a future city means
for citizens, they set out a programme of
citizen consultation and engagement,
looking at what needs citizens might have
within the areas of road repair and waste
management.