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Atlanta Launches North Avenue Smart Corridor

The City of Atlanta, Georgia recently launched the North Avenue Smart Corridor - a project ...

ScotlandIS Tackles Mobility As A Service (MaaS) and Cyber Resilience

Two new projects in the fields of cyber security and Internet of Things (IoT) are ...

ParkKing Enables Double Parking Detection

Recent graduates from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Edward Chan Kam Fai, Gan Yi Reng, and ...

Montreal Wins 2017 Smart Cities Award from Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA)

The Fédération internationale de l’automobile (FIA) - the international body that oversees motorsports - has ...

European Union SCORE Project Will Improve Public Service Delivery Using Open Source

The EU funded project, ‘SCORE’ - Smart Cities and Open Data Re-use, will involve nine ...

Singapore Installs Bluetooth Smart Racks for Bicycle Parking

Bluetooth solutions provider Viatick and the housing development board (HDB) of Singapore have partnered to ...

Electric Nation Tests Impact of Electric Vehicles on Electricity Networks

Electric Nation, a project funded by Western Power Distribution and the Network Innovation Allowance in ...

Sacramento Launches Parking App SacPark.org

The city of Sacramento, California launched a website and app called SacPark.org in October of ...

Next Challenge: Smart Cities Competition Focuses on Mobility, Buildings, Infrastructure

Michigan-based nonprofit and tech accelerator NextEnergy is teaming up with Wells Fargo, DENSO and DTE ...

Las Vegas Works With Cisco On Innovation District

In partnership with Cisco, the City of Las Vegas continues to expand its smart city ...

Melbourne Unveils Resilient Melbourne Citymart Challenge

The City of Melbourne, Australia created the Resilient Melbourne Citymart Challenge with the goal of ...

University of Warwick Demonstrates Vehicle-To-Grid Technology

Researchers at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom (UK) have demonstrated that vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology ...

Surtrac Wins Mobility Category in Le Monde Smart Cities Global Innovation Awards

The Le Monde Smart Cities Global Innovation Award recently named Surtrac, a real-time traffic signal ...

San Jose Seeks Partners for Autonomous Vehicle Pilot Projects

The city of San Jose, California recently released a request for information (RFI), seeking technology ...

Sensors Improve Air Quality

Many cities are working to improve their efforts to measure pollution using IoT technology to ...

The National League of Cities Releases Autonomous Vehicle Guide

The National League of Cities, a nonprofit group of municipal leagues, recently released a guide ...

Kansas City Announces Two-Mile Smart Streetcar Corridor

In June of 2016, Kansas City, Missouri, announced that it would invest $15 million in ...

IoT In Vehicles Opens Up Vulnerability to Cyber Attacks

With the increased integration of IoT technologies in vehicles, a number of steps are being ...

What’s Old is New: How Bosch is Leading The Way With Smart Cities After 130 Years

When Robert Bosch began his company in 1886, he revolutionized mobility with the magneto ignition ...

Marin County Uses Origin-Destination Data to Understand Traffic Patterns

The Transportation Authority of Marin County, California (TAM) commissioned a $30,000 study collect origin-destination (OD) ...

Qatar Launches Parking Master Plan

As parking related problems are on the rise in Qatar with an increase in population ...

Cities Transform Parking Spaces To Reclaim Land Area

MIT professor Eran Ben-Joseph once estimated that all of the parking lots in the US, ...

HAAS Alert Uses Audio Sensors to Send Notifications and Reroute Drivers

The Chicago-based startup, HAAS Alert - which stands for "Heedful Audio Alert System"- has been ...

Transportation In Forefront for City Planning

A number of cities have begun to radically re-think their approaches to transportation. Alex Pazuchanics, ...

URBAN-X Venture Accelerator Launches 14-Week Cohort 02 Program

URBAN-X - a venture accelerator founded by MINI in partnership with SOSV - has announced ...