Boston has launched its Smart Cities pilot project with the installation of road sensors, cameras, and connected lighting at the intersection of two major thoroughfares. Installed by Verizon, it is being termed a hyper-instrumented intersection. Read More
Canada is moving ahead with smart parking applications. The city of Sherbrooke recently launched a new parking application developed by B-CITI, a Canadian company who has partnered with the city of Brossard and the École Read More
Imagine that you can call an autonomous electric vehicle, which will deliver you to the mass transit system hub nearest you and home again, after you run errands or spend the day at work. Imagine Read More
Copenhagen has been voted the world’s best city for cyclists, with approximately 400 km of cycle paths and about 40 percent of the capital’s population commuting to work by bike. Through the public bike share Read More
Cenex, a center of excellence for low carbon and fuel cell technologies in the United Kingdom, is embarking on a project to investigate how cities can increase energy efficiency and decrease carbon emissions by integrating Read More
Electric roads are being tested in a number of countries world-wide. Roadway powered electric vehicles collect any form of potential energy from the road surface to supply electricity to locomotive motors and other equipment within Read More
The Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO in Stuttgart, Germany has no ordinary parking garage. It serves as a living lab to test the Micro Smart Grid and control systems that have been developed in-house. Read More
The city of Schenectady, New York is moving ahead with its Smart City initiative. Mayor Gary McCarthy created the Mayoral Smart City commission to take advantage of new technology for superior delivery of government services Read More
The Finnish city of Tampere, the second largest in the country, recently announced its plans to invest six to ten billion Euros by 2030 in order to become a fully-integrated smart city. “Our plan is Read More
The City of Kraków in Poland will soon use a new parking information system that monitors four streets in the city’s center and provides live information about free parking places via mobile apps and local Read More
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