The California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) recently announced it will award $27 million to support data system development and interoperability across five ports in the state. This is the first-ever state-level Read More
Colorado’s Denver Urban Gardens (DUG) – a nonprofit that promotes sustainable spaces – has received a $500,000 grant from the US Environmental Agency to install six new community gardens and nine food forests. The award Read More
England’s Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) – the local government body responsible for transport in the Manchester region – has partnered with CitySwift to deploy a performance optimization platform for the city’s bus network (the Read More
The city of Ghent in Belgium will be running two pilot projects aimed at reducing emissions in the central part of the city. The city states that 7,000 tonnes of goods are brought into Ghent’s Read More
The Port of Bilbao in Spain is currently working with connected-intelligent transportation system (C-ITS) provider Kapsch TrafficCom to launch a connected vehicles project that has the goal of improving safety and increasing sustainability within the Read More
A team of researchers from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill has placed sensors across the city of Durham to monitor the temperature trends and potentially learn how to save lives. “Temperatures are Read More
New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) recently announced the expansion of its Automated Bus Lane Enforcement (ABLE) program that is currently being used to prevent double parking and other violations in bus lanes in Read More
The City and County of San Francisco, CA adopted its Vision Zero policy in 2014, committing to build better and safer streets, educate the public on traffic safety, enforce traffic laws, and adopt policy changes Read More
The city of Louisville, KY is adding a new Urban Agriculture Program that will address food scarcity and the current lack of plantable green space. The new program will be housed under the Parks and Read More
The Miami suburb of Coral Gables in Florida is girding itself for any hurricanes that might hit this year, working to ensure that communication is maintained at all times. The hurricane season in the Atlantic Read More
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