Electric Nation, a project funded by Western Power Distribution and the Network Innovation Allowance in the United Kingdom, is testing a smart-charging solution to better understand what impact electric vehicles (EVs) could have on electricity Read More
The city of Sacramento, California launched a website and app called SacPark.org in October of last year which enables people to view available parking garages in the city’s downtown area and their prices, as well Read More
Michigan-based nonprofit and tech accelerator NextEnergy is teaming up with Wells Fargo, DENSO and DTE Energy to launch the second “Next Challenge: Smart Cities” competition. The competition focuses on hardware and/or software solutions that address Read More
In partnership with Cisco, the City of Las Vegas continues to expand its smart city projects, using its innovation district as a test bed. “Instead of going out and doing what others might do, which Read More
The City of Melbourne, Australia created the Resilient Melbourne Citymart Challenge with the goal of finding creative, feasible, and impactful ideas to help to reduce transport congestion, and ideally also make the experience of travel Read More
Researchers at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom (UK) have demonstrated that vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology can be used to take enough energy from idle electric vehicle (EV) batteries to be pumped into the grid and Read More
The Le Monde Smart Cities Global Innovation Award recently named Surtrac, a real-time traffic signal control technology from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the winner in the mobility category. The leader of the Surtrac project, Stephen Read More
The city of San Jose, California recently released a request for information (RFI), seeking technology partners for autonomous vehicle (AV) pilot projects in specified corridors within the city. The RFI identifies five corridors where the Read More
Many cities are working to improve their efforts to measure pollution using IoT technology to provide data that can map areas of high pollution, track changes over time, identify polluters, and analyze potential interventions. City Read More
The National League of Cities, a nonprofit group of municipal leagues, recently released a guide on autonomous vehicles (AVs) – “Autonomous Vehicles: A Policy Preparation Guide” – for state and local planners. It provides a Read More
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