The FinEst Centre for Smart Cities – part of the Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia – recently launched its Smart City Challenge 2024. The challenge has issued an invitation to anyone around the world Read More
There is a wide range of how smart city technology can be deployed in a city. Some applications (such as smart kiosks, smart street lights, or traffic monitoring cameras) have highly visible hardware but what Read More
The Tempe, Arizona City Council has allocated the use of federal and state grant funding for a new city program – Growing Together: A Tree Stewardship & Workforce Development Program – that will expand local Read More
The City of Albuquerque, NM is launching its first on-demand microtransit project – ABQ Ride Connect – to complement existing fixed route services. The one year pilot is designed to connect riders to key transfer Read More
Bloomberg Philanthropies has selected 25 cities in the United States to participate in its Bloomberg American Sustainable Cities initiative – a three-year program designed to turbocharge cities’ efforts to leverage federal funding to proactively build Read More
The 2023 winners of the European Mobility Week and Mobility Action urban mobility awards have been announced. European Mobility Week is held from September 16th – 22nd every year, giving towns and cities the opportunity Read More
TransLink – Vancouver, Canada’s public transit operator – is currently testing the use of a new multimodal transit app. The app incorporates carshare and bikeshare services, along with information on buses and trains. Its goal Read More
New York City’s Fire Department (FDNY) is partnering with NYU Tandon School of Engineering’s C2Smarter transportation center to use digital twin and AI technology to analyze and improve emergency vehicle travel times. C2Smarter – Connected Read More
The Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program of The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) recently released a bulletin, Best Practices for the Sustainable Urban Farm. The bulletin outlines strategies that urban farmers Read More
The city of Cardiff, Wales has approved plans to retrofit 23 council buildings to make them more energy-efficient. The project is part of the One Planet Cardiff program that has the ambitious goal of a Read More
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