The City of Dallas, TX has received a grant for $4 million US from The U.S. Department of Transportation to begin work on the city’s first testbed for smart transit technology. A 1.5-mile (~0.9 km) Read More
The City of Arlington’s on-demand public transit service, Via Arlington, will soon reach all neighborhoods, shopping centers, offices, restaurants, medical facilities and other key destinations across The American Dream City. Over the past three years, Read More
The City Council of Des Moines, IA recently approved a resolution that sets a timeline for several milestones in the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources – along with a series of carbon Read More
MediaCityUK has partnered with Connected Places Catapult to hold the UK Smart City Innovation Testbed program. It aims to discover how cities can use technology to adapt to a post-COVID world, especially how cities can Read More
Horiba Mira, an automotive engineering researchers house, is nearing completion of construction on its autonomous vehicle development center in the U.K. The facility – known as ASSURED CAV – will allow self-driving vehicles to be Read More
Bloomberg Philanthropies has launched its 2021 Global Mayors Challenge, which will award 15 cities $1 million each for innovations developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The four themes for this year’s competition will address Read More
The USDA’s Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production is seeking members for a new advisory committee on urban agriculture. The 12-person committee will advise the Secretary of Agriculture on the development of policies and Read More
The city of Baltimore, MD has migrated its existing open data portal to a new platform – the Open Data Baltimore Hub. The new platform includes dashboards, data visualizations and the use of “StoryMaps” – Read More
Reproducing events in the virtual world can be challenging – calling for creativity and, very often, new uses for technology. The city of Grapevine, Texas is known for its annual Christmas parade and found a Read More
The city of Prague is partnering with Sensoneo – a waste management solutions start-up – on a pilot project featuring dynamic waste collection via automated collection routes. The project is expected to deliver improvements in Read More
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