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The smart folks at ProgrammableWeb published an excellent primer detailing why and how smart cities are opening up public transport data so developers can create useful tools that enhance city living. As author Mark Boyd explains, "Public transport...
Article - 05/30/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Data management
Cisco and Streetline jointly developed a first-of-its-kind camera-based parking spot detection solution that can work in conjunction with or in lieu of in-ground sensors.While in-ground sensors are highly effective for detecting vehicles in...
Article - 05/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Is it possible to create a better bus system without incurring higher operating costs? Transit planners in Houston are out to prove you can.Houston Metro, burdened with a transit system devised in the 1970s, has proposed an extensive makeover of the...
Article - 05/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Citizen engagement
HandUp, a young San Francisco company that uses crowd-funding to help the homeless, won top honors in the smart cities sector of the first annual Challenge Cup, a business competition hosted by Washington, D.C.-based startup hub 1776.Launched last...
Article - 05/21/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter, Health and human services, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Computing resources
An organization that promotes the benefits of compact and connected communities has published a report that ranks 221 metro areas on the amount of sprawl included in their development patterns.Council Advisor Smart Growth America just released ...
Article - 05/21/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Transportation
A study by the World Health Organization (WHO) to measure pollution levels in 1,600 cities around the world revealed some dreary news. WHO says pollution has gotten worse, not better, since its last survey and that poor countries are hit the hardest...
Article - 05/09/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Health and human services, Transportation, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Hamburg, Germany is no slouch when it comes to smart approaches. In fact, Cisco's chief globalization officer Wim Elfrink said the other day that Hamburg is quickly emerging as one of the world's smart city showcases. And Cisco, a Council Global...
Article - 05/02/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Sustainable cities are cities that make it reasonably easy to get to your job. And residents in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut metropolitan region now have a tool that helps them see exactly how reasonable -- or not -- job travel is.DataHaven...
Article - 05/02/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Transportation, Computing resources