In June of 2016, Kansas City, Missouri, announced that it would invest $15 million in a public-private partnership with Cisco to make a two-mile smart streetcar corridor. It added free public Wi-Fi across 51 downtown Read More
With the increased integration of IoT technologies in vehicles, a number of steps are being taken to guard against cyber attacks. “All of your electronic conveniences are, potentially, electronic vulnerabilities,” said Jack Dunham, a member Read More
When Robert Bosch began his company in 1886, he revolutionized mobility with the magneto ignition. Since then, they have become the largest automotive supplier when it comes to mobility solutions and have maintained leadership in Read More
The Transportation Authority of Marin County, California (TAM) commissioned a $30,000 study collect origin-destination (OD) data specific to Marin County to provide an updated understanding of its travel patterns and to support the update of Read More
As parking related problems are on the rise in Qatar with an increase in population and the number of vehicles, The Ministry of Transport and Communications (MoTC) has launched the Qatar Parking Master Plan and Read More
MIT professor Eran Ben-Joseph once estimated that all of the parking lots in the US, if connected, would be able to cover Puerto Rico. “In some cities, like Orlando and Los Angeles,” Ben-Joseph stated,” parking Read More
The Chicago-based startup, HAAS Alert – which stands for “Heedful Audio Alert System”- has been working on a mobile platform for connected cars and smart cities that allows first responders and other municipal departments to Read More
A number of cities have begun to radically re-think their approaches to transportation. Alex Pazuchanics, Pittsburgh’s transportation policy coordinator, recently announced “…we have created a new department — the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure. [The Read More
URBAN-X – a venture accelerator founded by MINI in partnership with SOSV – has announced the startup companies who will be part of the second round of participants chosen to work with MINI’s engineers to Read More
ANAGOG creates crowd sourced information about the mobility status of users. By using smartphone sensors, ANAGOG detects the mobility status of drivers, including where they parked and predicting five minutes before they will vacate their Read More
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