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Article - 01/01/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Readiness Guide, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
In the coming months, do not be relieved if a traffic policeman does not catch you for not wearing a helmet. The challan for paying the fine may land later at your doorstep. CCTV cameras have been installed at various spots on MG Road and other...
Article - 11/08/2019
Active Region(s): India, Readiness Guide Online
It’s easy to say everyone should have access to the transportation resources they need. But as many city leaders and planners know, it can be much more difficult to deliver on that pledge. A panel discussion among professionals in the field at Smart...
Article - 10/05/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation, Citizen engagement
Autonomous vehicles, AVs, driverless cars, trucks, shuttles, buses. They're being evaluated and fine-tuned at test facilities and will be operating on city streets soon, although when their prime time debut will happen is hotly debated. While many...
Article - 10/05/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Connectivity
In its recent report "The state of electric vehicles in Australia", the Electric Vehicle Council highlighted the varied state of the electric vehicle marketplace in Australia, including the headline statistic that Australia is falling behind,...
Article - 09/20/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand, Readiness Guide Online
In a major step forward in the initiative taken by the Government of India under the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM) and Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) to promote bus-based public transportation in the country, Chandigarh...
Article - 09/18/2017
Active Region(s): India, Readiness Guide Online
Smart buildings and infrastructure, smart grid and IoT are all on the radar of two new startup accelerator programs that have just arrived in Melbourne. The increased level of activity in smart cities related startup support is exciting, and builds...
Article - 09/14/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand, Readiness Guide Online
Over the past decade, Mumbai has grown rapidly and has been witnessing a dearth of parking space, leading to road congestion due to the unorganized parking structure in the city. A bench of judges from the high court recently raised a concern with...
Article - 09/07/2017
Active Region(s): India, Readiness Guide Online
Given all the tools and technologies available today, it seems like air pollution ought to be something we can solve – or at least keep from getting worse. But a recent report in the Times of India suggests that an abnormal 152% growth in private...
Article - 08/08/2017
Active Region(s): Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Wellness
All or at least most of us have probably done it — fought off drowsiness while driving. Driving late at night, after a long day, not getting enough sleep the night before or trying to get a few more hours of driving in during a long trip. The...
Article - 08/03/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation, Analytics
It's not surprising that cybersecurity spending will increase dramatically as the transportation industry becomes more connected. Our cars are getting more intelligent and autonomous and railways and other forms of transportation are becoming more...
Article - 07/27/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation, Connectivity, Security and privacy
What comes first: the technology or the people? We were in Indianapolis this week for our third Readiness Challenge Grant Workshop — and the answer there is clearly the public.Indianapolis was one of five cities to win our first series of grants and...
Article - 07/21/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: SCC Spotlight Cities
Photo credit: HitachiRapidly growing populations are straining the ability of cities all over the world to provide the efficient services citizens need and want. One very visible challenge is increasing traffic congestion. Traffic delays are not...
Article - 07/21/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation, Connectivity
Do you find it difficult to believe that in 2017, there are 34 million Americans who still lack broadband Internet access? Or that a school teacher in Africa would have to spend a full month's pay just to download a single iTunes movie? Sadly, many...
Article - 07/18/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Upward Mobility
Olli, IBM's self-driving shuttleThe consensus is that we'll see autonomous vehicles (AVs) – self-driving cars, trucks, buses and shuttles – on our city streets and interstates within five years or so. Several jurisdictions are actively competing to...
Article - 06/29/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation, Connectivity
High speed rail - the forever debated, discussed and partially studied means of transport that comes and goes every few years. Until now.In this article we get the latest from an ambitious private sector-led proposal that not only looks to deliver a...
Article - 06/21/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand, Readiness Guide Online
There’s no question that the app-based, private vehicle taxi services Lyft and Uber have dramatically changed the way people get around cities. It’s been hard to quantify their impact, but San Francisco has made an incredible effort. San Francisco...
Article - 06/15/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation, Analytics
Louisville's known as the home of the Kentucky Derby. But it's also known for its traffic congestion, a distinction no city wants. Louisville Metro Government officials are taking what looks like a common sense, no frills approach to approach to...
Article - 06/14/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Connectivity
The numbers are grim. In 2016, traffic collisions were responsible for approximately 40,000 deaths and more than four million injuries in the U.S. And severe congestion has slowed traffic in cities around the world as more and more people move to...
Article - 06/08/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation
If a city is planning to make a new infrastructure investment, odds are it will have something to do with transportation. As a category for investment, transportation is growing faster than any other, as you’ll read below in a new analysis from...
Article - 06/02/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation, Finance and procurement