Furthermore, cities with a high demographic density have traditionally made a greater effort to develop their local public transportation systems (Jun, Kwon, & Jeong, 2013), and, as a consequence, they are now in more favourable conditions for the launching of SC initiatives in these settings. However, over a certain threshold, demographic density and size lead to diseconomies in many settings, such as in transportation,
real estate, security, and energy consumption. Thus, these diseconomies make dense cities less smart, but in the same way, they make them potentially more interested in introducing
ICT based initiatives aimed at mitigating the congestion problems induced by such diseconomies.