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As cities develop and populations continue to grow, there is one common challenge most places face: transportation. In southwest Germany near the French border, Karlsruhe, the second-largest city in the state of Baden-Württemberg, has had a three-...
Article - 12/10/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Upward Mobility, Food and Water, Wellness, Shelter, Smart City Concepts, Definitions and overviews, Responsibility areas, Built environment, Economic development, Energy, Health and human services, Payments, Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Transportation
Surat, being the centre of opportunities for laborers and investors, has attracted migrants from nearby rural areas and cities. This has increasing the demand for intra-city transportation. In the year 2006, Surat Municipal Corporation’s (SMC)...
Article - 07/21/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Transportation, The Enablers, Citizen engagement, Interoperability
Once you read about the autonomous driving innovations just released by Mercedes, you'll realize that we're closer than ever to a revolution in transportation.This creates both a dilemma and an opportunity for city leaders. Should cities continue to...
Article - 01/13/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Transportation, Connectivity
Envision America involves a year-long commitment in which representatives of selected cities will work with a variety of experts to develop their smart city projects, the technologies they need to accomplish them, determine costs and come up with an...
Article - 01/13/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Transportation, Waste management
In the early days of the smart city movement, most cities built applications one at a time, typically for just one department. More and more, however, cities are realizing they don’t want to learn a separate tool for every separate application. Nor...
Article - 01/08/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Public safety and security, Transportation, Citizen engagement
In the never-ending race to gain competitive advantage, some cities are turning to "Innovation Zones." They set aside an area with incentives such as ultra-fast broadband and tax breaks. Then they try to attract the best and brightest companies to...
Article - 12/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Economic development, Public safety and security, Transportation, Connectivity
Council Lead Partner GE won the prize in competitive bidding to supply Indian Railways with the locomotives, construction and maintenance facilities it needs to upgrade its system. GE plans to invest $200 million in the project, and anticipates a...
Article - 11/18/2015
Active Region(s): India, Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Economic development, Transportation
The Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) and Gujarat International Finance Tec-City Company Limited (GIFTCL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Siemens to develop Smart Mobility Solutions for Gujarat...
Article - 10/06/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Transportation
As India prepares itself to launch on the global platform for Smart Cities, through the NDA government's '100 Smart Cities' mission, the Smart Cities Council of India had organized a Conclave on Smart Technologies which housed the national and...
Article - 09/29/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Telecommunications, Transportation, Connectivity
The networking major, which has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Maharashtra government as an advisory role for developing smart cities in the state, is set to chalk out net-based solutions plan for the Nagpur city.According to a...
Article - 09/28/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Transportation, Visioning and roadmapping tools