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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 ...

Feb 9, 2018 - Could there be a magic bullet to fix our urban transport mess? - Most urban transportation experts agree that people will have to stop driving their own personal cars and move to shared vehicles if cities are to cut ...

Feb 8, 2018 - How Smart Cities are Changing Urban Living - Currently, smart city concepts are being integrated into cities everywhere. Moving forward, those cities are expected to be much more refined and concentrated, and big tech ...

Feb 7, 2018 - Smart City Experience: Imagining Life in a Connected Urban Environment - Connected to the data streams of a truly smart city, your smartphone would let you know which meters would become available by your expected arrival time. If you wanted ...

Feb 7, 2018 - SELF-DRIVING CARS USE CRAZY AMOUNTS OF POWER, AND IT'S BECOMING A PROBLEM - FOR LONGTIME RESIDENTS of Pittsburgh, seeing self-driving cars built by Uber, Argo AI, and others roam their streets is nothing new. The city's history with robot cars goes back to the late 1980s, when students at Carnegie ...

Feb 7, 2018 - In San Diego, a lamppost can tell you where to park. Technology in one of the smartest cities in the world may soon be mainstream - "That street light can be your solution, just like Waze data or a Google Maps," Graham says. "Wouldn't it be great if you could look on your phone and know exactly where there was available ...

Feb 6, 2018 - The Value of U.S. Downtowns and Center Cities - AN IDA PILOT STUDY CALCULATING THE VALUE OF DOWNTOWN - The International Downtown Association - A strong downtown is critical for a successful city and region. Downtowns and center cities are where people, capital and ideas have historically ...

Your Smart City Is Stupid - Cities have been called a repository of possibilities. What they haven’t been called, at least until recently, is smart. These days, however, the term “smart city” is everywhere, pimped by tech giants like IBM, Google, and Cisco ... So-called smart city projects already claim to “potentially” preserve water in California, “possibly” make waste disposal more efficient in Sweden, and “may” make it easier to find parking in Amsterdam ...

Smart Cities: Early Signs of Progress, but Still a Long Way to Go - CES takes place in Las Vegas, which is itself hoping to become a smart city. Here's how things are going so far. Lately, we've heard a lot about "smart cities"—by which people usually mean the idea that by connecting things like street lights, traffic lights, parking spaces, police reports, and other civil services, a city can run much more smoothly. At CES, Cisco sponsored an event to show off ...

Ford CEO Jim Hackett on the future of computing, cities, and self-driving cars - In May 2017, Ford announced that it had replaced its CEO, Mark Fields, who had been with the company since 1989, with Jim Hackett. Despite being on Ford’s board since 2013, Hackett was probably best known for leading Steelcase, the large office-furniture company, for decades and turning around its fortunes, as well as ...

Walkable Parking: How to Create Park-Once-and-Walk Districts By Paul Barter - Planning for Walkable Parking basically means working to create more park-once-and-walk districts where much of the parking is open to the public, even if it is privately owned. It means enabling local ‘parking pools’ and not caring if any particular site has enough on-site parking. “Walkable Parking” is a way to make parking policy ...

Self-driving cars take over CES: Here's how big tech is playing the market - The promise of self-driving cars has gone mainstream, and this week's massive CES trade show was proof. Amazon, Intel, Nvidia and Cisco all made announcements about autonomous driving at CES, joining a host of rivals and partners that have publicly reported their efforts. To accommodate, the annual Las Vegas trade ...

What I Learned About Self-Driving Cars At CES - It’s tough to pull meaning from the crush and cacophony of CES, the sprawling tech extravaganza that’s curiously well-suited to the sensory overload experience that is Las Vegas. But here’s a big takeaway from the 2018 edition: the future of mobility has left the “gee, wouldn’t it be cool if…” phase. It’s now firmly in the “here’s how it starts” mode ...

Will Self-Driving Cars Usher in a Transportation Utopia or Dystopia? - The need for parking places and parking garages would plummet, as driverless cars go somewhere else instead of parking. Because roughly 80 percent of toxic air pollutants are released in the first five minutes⁠ of driving, the resulting reduction in cold starts would cause a huge drop in air pollution. In a place like Los Angeles, now home to 18.6 million parking places⁠ — three per car ...

San Francisco Rolls Out Dynamic Parking Rate Model - Ultimately the idea behind demand-based rates is rooted in the goal of getting drivers off the streets and into a space as quickly as possible. “You certainly hear stories in San Francisco of people saying, ‘I circled around for an hour and couldn’t find parking, so I just left,’” Wilson offered. “And of course, less driving means fewer greenhouse gas emissions ...

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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