2021

The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has partnered with Applied Information Group – a design consultancy and wayfinding specialist – to create the city’s wayfinding system, named Seamless Seattle. The project supports Seattle’s goal of Read More

The residents of Perth, Australia have been asked by researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) to volunteer as citizen scientists to help create Australia’s longest daily weather record of the city. The project will Read More

The mayor of Boston, Kim Janey and the Mayor’s Office of Food Access (OFA) have launched a food resources SMS chatbot and the online food donations platform. Both initiatives are part of Boston’s Food Access Read More

Trees for Cities – a UK non-profit which works to improve lives by planting trees in cities – is working with energy firm UK Power Network, which supplies power to London, the South East, and East Read More

Liverpool, England’s City Region Combined Authority has ordered 20 zero-emission hydrogen double deck buses from Alexander Limited. The 20 ADL Enviro400FCEV buses were purchased using the Liverpool City Region’s Transforming Cities Fund and will be Read More

The City of Coral Gables, FL has installed the AI-powered Ekin Spotter to provide next-generation data analysis capabilities to improve city planning, traffic and enforcement, public safety, environmental protection, and Wi-Fi access. The city’s new Read More

The Partnership for Inclusive Innovation – a public-private partnership from the state of Georgia, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and other private and public institutions across the state that are committed to establishing a roadmap Read More

Chattanooga, TN recently received a $1.37 million grant from the National Science Foundation to be used to create a testbed as a service (TaaS) to be built on its existing “Smart Corridor+.” The testbed will be Read More

As part of the Smart Dublin program, the capital city of Ireland recently named its Smart Tourism manager, Barry Rogers, who describes his new position as “using digitalization and data analysis to help build more Read More

Chicago, IL Mayor Lori Lightfoot released the city’s first Food Equity Agenda in the summer of this year to address social inequities and food insecurity. The program has the primary goals of removing barriers to Read More