Contents
Certificate of original authorship i
Certificate of Dissertation Advisor’s consent iii
Acknowledgments v
Abstract vii
List of figures ix
List of tables xi
1 Introduction 2
1.1 Background 2
1.2 Governance and Good Governance 2
1.3 Urban Local Governance 3
1.3.1 Functions of Urban Local Body 4
1.3.2 Need for Integrated GIS solution for the Urban Local Body 5
1.4 Smart City Mission 5
1.5 Aim, Objectives, and Research Questions 6
1.6 Methodology 7
1.7 Limitations/Scope of the Study 11
2 Literature Review 12
2.1 Use of Geospatial Technology in Urban Local Bodies 12
2.2 Smart Utility – Planning and Analysis 13
2.3 Project Planning and Scheduling Techniques 16
2.3.1 Critical Path Method (CPM) 16
2.4 GIS-based project planning and scheduling Case Studies 18
2.4.1 Case Study 1: CIGFIL Polymers Building, Hosakote, Bengaluru 18
2.4.2 Case Study 2: Construction Project Scheduling using GIS Tools. 19
2.4.3 Case Study 3: Geospatial Analysis of Primavera P6 Data 20
3 Study Area – Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) 22
4 Results and Discussion 26
4.1 Preliminary Analysis 26
4.2 Analysis on ArcGIS for Power BI platform 32
4.3 Project Planning and Scheduling Tool 35
4.3.1 Project Planning 36
4.3.2 Project Scheduling 37
5 Conclusion 40
6 References 42
Appendix 1: Project Scheduling Tool Code 46