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June 22, 2018 - Rahm and Elon’s Public-Private Partnership - Rahm Emanuel’s “public-private partnership” with Elon Musk looks a lot like the parking meters privatization that still haunts ...

June 21, 2018 - New smart city traffic project takes off in Portland, OR - "Designing safe streets starts with good data," said PBOT ...

June 19, 2018 - Women Leaders Are Key Players Shaping Today’s Smart Cities - Women are playing a more prominent role than before ...

June 18, 2018 - From smart city projects to smart cities, slowly but steadily - Smart lighting, video surveillance, smart parking, smart waste ...

June 11, 2018 - How the World’s Smartest Cities are Being Built - As the world’s biggest cities continue to sprawl with many millions of ...

June 7, 2018 - The only way the US can safely move forward with self-driving cars - We need a federal framework that provides clear ...

June 7, 2018 - Connected cars can lie, posing a new threat to smart cities - The day when cars can talk to each other – and to traffic lights ...

June 1, 2018 - Are smart cities as safe as we think they are? Security experts say not yet - Global survey respondents flagged several critical infrastructure areas as potential targets including transportation systems ...

May 30, 2018 - With connected communities on the rise, we must be smart in managing data - These days, it seems every mayor of a major city – including Toronto, is on the smart ...

May 25, 2018 - New Technologies Selected for Testing in Toronto's First Smart City Pilot Program - ArgosAI: Digitized data stream activated through video cameras and used ...

May 22, 2018 - What it means to be a 'smart city' in 2018 — “If you asked 10 people in a room what a smart city is, you’d probably get at least five different answers.” ...

May 18, 2018 - The Dirty Truth Coming for Self-Driving Cars - Trash. Odors. Bodily fluids. Will autonomous rideshares be ready for our mess?

May 17, 2018 - The Future Of Boston Transportation: Will Self-Driving Cars Mean Safer Streets? - “We’ve got cameras here looking 360 degrees. This is what’s called a LIDAR sensor. It’s shooting out lots of laser ...

May 14, 2018 - A future with more efficient and successful cities - While smart cities have held a great deal of promise for many years, they are ...

May 11, 2018 - Building the Smart City: 8 Things To Get Right - Technology is top of mind in the smart city, but it is just one layer of many in ...

May 10, 2018 - SMMT AND AUTO MAKERS ISSUE “FUTURE MOBILITY CHALLENGE” - The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders ...

May 9, 2018 - Mastercard, Microsoft partner on smart city pilot - teaming up 2 help cities better understand and address urban planning ...

May 8, 2018 - What Will New York Do About Its Uber Problem? - Cities have a long history of intervening to impose order on their streets. No large metropolis can accommodate everyone ...

May 7, 2018 - Transforming urban travel with Mobile IoT - Parking-related issues are often high on a smart city’s agenda. Whether it’s ...

May 3, 2018 - How smart cities are using data to pave the way for autonomous vehicles - Across the U.S., semi-autonomous and driverless cars have taken to the streets more so than ever ...

May 1, 2018 - 5 Smart City Technologies already on your Street - From reimagined phone boxes to retrofitting street lights, the smart city is ...

May 1, 2018 - How Disneyland's Main Street, USA, Changed the Design and Preservation of American Cities - Walt Disney didn't set out to revolutionize urban design when he created ...

April 30, 2018 - Could subscription models change car ownership forever? - Expert says the automotive industry is due for a complete shake-up. We live in a very different world ...

April 27, 2018 - Is the IoT a trojan horse for smart cities? - Could traffic be brought to city-wide gridlock? Could vulnerable road users ...

April 24, 2018 - Initiative Seeks to Help 26 Global ‘Smart Cities’ Combat Transportation Issues - Every year, the average New Yorker spends 72 hours in traffic, the L.A. native ...

April 23, 2018 - Does Mobility as a Service hold the answer to the future of transport? - MaaS can be characterised as a better, faster, more connected and personal transportation that ...

April 23, 2018 - Cities Struggle to Contain Curbside Congestion - Delivery trucks, car-charging ports and smart parking meters have triggered new challenges when it comes to ...

April 20, 2018 - Self-driving cars. Scooters. The future of commuting to work is here - Innovation is underway to rethink one of the biggest headaches we face on a daily basis: getting to work. From crowdsourced shuttle ...

April 20, 2018 - Erie Launches New Secure Smart City Project - "Parking, lighting, traffic, and security surveillance, these are typically some of the headline use cases we have implemented ...

April 18, 2018 - Mastercard: Invisible Payments Power Mobility As A Service - “Mobility as a Service” is the moniker for the digital interfaces that blend planning information, booking ...

April 16, 2018 - Adapting to urban mobility: New trends in transportation - One of the largest areas of consideration in developing smart cities regarding transportation ...

April 13, 2018 - Mayor of Nashville, TN David Briley Talks Transit - Traffic is at a point where it’s more than inconvenient. It’s having an effect on people’s lives every day. It affects what ...

April 12, 2018 - West Hollywood Markets Its Small Size for Smart City Projects - Tiny West Hollywood could become a leader in smart city technologies. The two-square-mile city in ...

April 11, 2018 - The 10 Most Expensive Cities To Own a Car - Driving a car is more expensive than ever with owners shelling out thousands ...

April 10, 2018 - Alphabet unit to start Toronto smart-city tech pilot in summer, build in 2020 - Alphabet Inc’s urban innovation company Sidewalk Labs hopes to break ground on its ...

April 9, 2018 - Smart Cities Aim to Revolutionize the Way We Live, Work and Travel - Finding a parking spot will be easy: just tap a button on your car’s instrument panel and it will ...

April 6, 2018 - UK transport is failing us say a third of businesses - Over a third of businesses do not believe that the UK’s transport networks meet their needs, according to new research ...

April 4, 2018 - The smart in smart parking - Whether you want to reduce congestion, increase parking revenue or reduce occupancy – or a mixture of all three ...

April 3, 2018 - Smart Cities Need Smarter Citizens: Millennials Should Take The Lead Now - Over $14.85 billion have been spent on smart city initiatives in 2015. By 2020, the figure is expected to double and reach $34.45 ...

April 2, 2018 - Infographic: An Introduction to the Internet of Things - The emerging industrial Internet of Things offers benefits across markets. Here’s a primer and some examples ...

April 2, 2018 - Cities that Fail to Become Smart Could Be the Next Digital Rust Belt - The third annual Smart Cities Connect Conference in Kansas City delivered an important message: become smart or be left behind ...

March 24, 2018 - How hackers could turn a 'smart city' into a house of cards - With hackers targeting city government systems, there’s a growing fear that the so-called high-tech “smart city” of the future could be turned into ...

March 22, 2018 - Blockchain will be key to security for 'smart cities' of the future - The future is fast approaching in the form of smart cities. But at the same time, a global horde ...

March 21, 2018 - IDC Government Insights Names Smart Cities North America Award Finalists - IDC Government Insights recently named the finalists in its inaugural Smart Cities North America Awards (SCNAA). The new ...

March 20, 2018 - How Braga, Portugal Is Using IoT and Cisco DevNet to Become a Smart City - Digital transformations are everywhere around us – innovative uses of digital technology that generate real improvements ...

March 19, 2018 - What’s the next big thing in IoT? 14 experts share their predictions - Transportation: We’ve already seen this technology being employed on a small scale ...

March 16, 2018 - Minnesota was way ahead of Google in planning a smart city - Around the world, tech giants are investing billions of dollars in building so-called "smart cities." ...

March 15, 2018 - Future smart cities could lift transport into the sky to solve congestion - CITIES OF THE FUTURE could see public transportation lifted from the ground and up into the air, if Britain's transport innovators ...

March 14, 2018 - Smart cities give back to citizens - The record for the world’s worst traffic jam belongs to Beijing’s gridlock. For 12 days in August 2010, cars could not escape 62 miles ...

March 13, 2018 - Q&A: NYC CTO Miguel Gamiño on making tech work 'for all people' - Gamiño discusses his "people first" approach, his push to make broadband accessible and his thoughts ...

March 13, 2018 - Toyota Creates New Digital Transformation & Mobility Pillar - Vehicle connectivity, electrification, new forms of mobility and mobility services, and autonomous driving technologies are driving ...

March 12, 2018 - The five levels of driverless car autonomy explained - This guide grades vehicle autonomy from Level Zero to Level Five, giving manufacturers a quick way to explain what ...

March 9, 2018 - How machine learning is improving location-based services - When machine learning and location data are combined, the applications are vast ...

March 9, 2018 - The Smart City Ecosystem Framework – A Model for Planning Smart Cities - What is a smart city? The answer depends on who you ask. Solutions providers will tell you it’s smart parking, smart lighting or anything to do with technology. City officials may say it’s ...

March 9, 2018 - As Electric Cars Revolutionize the Vehicle Market, New Study Helps Cities Address Infrastructure and Parking Challenges - With (EVs) hitting U.S. streets in record numbers, a new study by the WISPIRG Foundation and Frontier Group highlights best practices to ...

March 8, 2018 - The State Of Travel And Mobility Startups Around The World - Thousands of startups around the globe are working on innovative solutions that make travel more efficient, frictionless and ...

March 7, 2018 - Poles apart: Five cities putting smart streetlights to new uses - For example, a streetlight can also be an environmental monitoring station, a WiFi hotspot, a charging station for electric vehicles, or an ideal site ...

March 7, 2018 - Citizen engagement key to the success of Smart Cities - Citizen engagement is critical to the success of smart cities, according to international research firm Gartner. It adds that smart city initiatives are no longer about optimised traffic patterns, parking ...

March 5, 2018 - As Electric Cars Revolutionize the Vehicle Market, New Study Helps Cities Address Infrastructure and Parking Challenges - With electric vehicles (EVs) hitting U.S. streets in record numbers, a new study by Environment North Carolina Research and Policy Center and Frontier Group highlights best ...

March 5, 2018 - How Dubai's Expo 2020 site will become future smart city - Smart car parking should allow barrier-free access, guidance to empty spaces, easy navigation to your car and “wayfinding” from the innermost venue of ...

March 2, 2018 - ‘We’re listening,’ Department of Transportation says on the future of driverless cars - The visionary world where cars will travel about without drivers will be shaped by a third set of federal guidelines this summer, one ...

March 1, 2018 - EV adoption is increasing. Can city infrastructure keep up? - What was once a question of how to get more electric cars on the road is increasingly becoming a question of when. Initially, forecasts for electric vehicle ...

Feb 28, 2018 - Smart cities and the vehicle ownership shift - Many observers anticipate more space in city centres as fewer vehicles operate and less parking is required. “So much of modern city infrastructure was ...

Feb 28, 2018 - The Next Big Thing in Getting Around Are 'Transportation Network Intermediaries' - Last week, investors put $50 million into Moovit, a transportation network intermediary (that’s what I am calling it). Companies like it will be transformative in ...

Feb 27, 2018 - Team of rivals: Utilities, enviros unite to push electric vehicles - Old adversaries from the rooftop solar fights are finding common ground on transportation electrification. In 2017, electric vehicles ...

Feb 26, 2018 - 7 transportation IoT predictions from Cisco - IoT's role in the world of connected transportation will grow, says Kyle Connor, Cisco’s transportation industry principal. But it will take cooperation among companies and ...

Feb 22, 2018 - New mobility and digital identity: A revolution in motion - Imagine it: A car that knows you well enough to adjust your seat, cue up your favorite music, map your destination and unlock the door for you — even if ...

Feb 21, 2018 - A smarter smart city - An ambitious project by Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs could reshape how we live, work, and play in urban neighborhoods. On ...

Feb 20, 2018 - LOOKING FOR A SMART CITY? GRAB YOUR SKIS - “Smart city” has become an A+ public relations byword, a mostly empty phrase that seems to mean “places that collect data about stuff.” In Toronto, Google parent ...

Feb 15, 2018 - Exposing the Power Vampires in Self-Driving Cars - Autonomous driving systems give cars eco-driving skills. But their computers and sensors could consume enough electricity to negate this green dividend. By driving ...

Feb 15, 2018 - Q&A: Austin's assistant director of smart mobility opens up about new role - The city of Austin, TX welcomed a new employee to its transportation department on Feb. 12, as Jason JonMichael started work as the city’s assistant director for smart mobility ...

Feb 14, 2018 - Google’s Guinea-Pig City - Will Toronto turn its residents into Alphabet’s experiment? The answer has implications for cities everywhere. Quayside is a nondescript, 12-acre chunk of land on the southern edge of ...

Feb 13, 2018 - Singapore, London and Barcelona named as world’s best smart cities - Singapore, London and Barcelona have today been named as the world’s best smart cities in a report which highlights the drivers and hurdles faced by ...

Feb 12, 2018 - Metro Detroit cities prepare for autonomous vehicles with smart infrastructure - Parking needs also are expected to change. A driverless car could drop passengers off at their destination and then either park itself off-site, or continue driving to pick up different ...

Feb 12, 2018 - TECHNOLOGIES THAT WILL CHANGE PARKING - The automotive industry is racing ahead at the speed of light. As society begins to embrace the benefits of electrical energy in driving, other elements of the ...

Setting Sail: ‘The Future Is Today’ - Lessons from the Parking Australia Outlook Conference 2017 - Last fall, I was fortunate to attend one of the best conferences I have ever had the privilege to experience: the Parking Australia Outlook Conference 2017. And I want to share some of that as we head into the new year. Albert Einstein said, “He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” And wonder ...

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