Uploaded on 2016-07-22 by Edgar Valdes

Case study: Big flows in colossal Mexico City Mexico City is one of the most important financial centers in the Americas located in the Valley of in the high plateaus at the center of Mexico, at an altitude of 2,240 m. Mexico’s capital is both the oldest capital city in the Americas and one of two founded by Amerindians. According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the Greater Mexico City population is 8.9 million people with a GDP of US$411 billion. The figure greatly increases to a grand total of 21.9 million habitants when the metropolitan area is taking into account. More over the total flow to the city came not only from its population since a 4 million passengers came to the city for farther away zones – 3 to six travel hours- to study or work in the city. This travel time creates a overcrowding in certain zones of the city; a major redistribution of loads can be shared among all key transport zones in the city if more information can be acquired; a perspective here is the use of Internet of Things. People flow has created an increasing infrastructure both in transport and housing. The overall massive structure of the city is composed by at least 276,563 million tons of steel; 394.5 millions of concrete; 90.7 million tons of cement; 276,563 tons of aluminum; and 48.7 million tons of asphalt. Over this metrics and taking into account the amount of people –both on floating and settled- a 30.7 of CO2 flow annually is calculated. This address to one of the biggest problems of the city; where a variety of actions have been placed on the past decades. There is not an easy solution for the demands that this colossal city requires; the most agreement are now in a division of the city in order to focus capital investment on certain areas. The last is of course a political strategy, but from it a more science derived decision can blossom. Moreover, the increasing needs of communication in Mexico City have placed them on the track to invest into its telecommunication infrastructure. With over a 29% of the population using daily internet services -51.5% is the penetration overall country-, for a space of 5.36 hours average giving a estimate of 7.65 Giga bytes use of information monthly. From the internet public access network –with over a 1000 free spots serving across the city-, Mexico City is still far away to produce free services for their information demand. This makes very difficult implementations of big data services for the e-government perspective.