The Breathe London pilot initiative was recently launched to provide real-time, hyperlocal air quality data. The initiative is a private sector-academic partnership between Imperial College London’s Environmental Research Group and the media and infrastructure company Read More
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has launched the Advanced and Urban Aerial Mobility Cities and Regions Coalition. The coalition initially includes the cities of Amsterdam in The Netherlands; Orlando, FL; Los Angeles, CA; and Sao Read More
Solihull – a large market town near Birmingham, England – is testing how connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) may be integrated into the borough’s transport network. The Council-led initiative is using a 10-seater, zero-emissions, autonomous shuttle Read More
San Jose, CA is testing the use of lidar technology on local streets in an attempt to reduce the number of pedestrian deaths. The technology – from Velodyne Lidar – will augment the city’s camera-based Read More
Puerto Rico’s first intermunicipal microgrid – Microrred de la Montaña (Microgrid of the Mountain) – is currently being developed by microgrid developer XENDEE and the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). The microgrid will be managed by Read More
The College of Agricultural Sciences at Pennsylvania State University has received a $100,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture to develop recommendations and protocols for the testing and management of soils used in urban agriculture. Read More
Edinburgh, Scotland has received a £2.2m (~US$2.9m) award through Transport Scotland’s Switched on Towns and Cities Challenge Fund to install on-street electric vehicle charging. “I’m pleased to see the Scottish Government investment of £2.2m deliver Read More
The municipality of Örebro in Sweden now has a mobile digital meeting place which will introduce the benefits of digitization to its residents. Much like a bookmobile, the bus will travel around the municipality and Read More
The City of Somerville, MA has partnered with Modern Pest Services for a five-month pilot project to test sensor-equipped rat traps that provide real-time data to inform pest control authorities. The SMART Box pilot is Read More
The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) in Korea has released a draft of the Seoul 2040 Comprehensive Plan to create a new urban planning framework for the city over the next 20 years. The Seoul 2040 Read More
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