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The 1st SmartCitiesCouncil® - Europe Stakeholders’ Assembly recently took place in Dublin, Ireland on the 9th of November. The day’s theme was Accelerating your innovation economy and focused on how smart city solutions can advance innovation and...
Article - 11/21/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Economic development, Energy, Telecommunications, Transportation, Waste management, The Enablers, Citizen engagement, Connectivity, Data management, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership, Smart City Examples, SCC Spotlight Cities
Major cities within the Australia and New Zeland region are undergoing massive change, through extraordinary growth. Sydney and Auckland come to mind immediately, having spent much time there recently. The infrastructure spend in both of these...
Article - 04/15/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Transportation, Policy and leadership
As urban mobility becomes a top priority for many cities, driverless cars and the technologies that make them possible are attracting a lot of attention from city leaders and planners. And rightly so. The technologies are evolving rapidly as car...
Article - 03/16/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Policy and leadership
The city of Orlando has accomplished a lot in terms of enhancing livability and sustainability with a variety of energy, transportation and other beneficial projects as it continues to develop its smart city program. And it has several more projects...
Article - 02/10/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Transportation, Connectivity, Policy and leadership
The planning process for a smart city never really ends. The technologies that make smart cities possible evolve quickly; markets and economies change; priorities change, and what a city's residents expect—whether it's a better, faster transit...
Article - 10/06/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Transportation, Policy and leadership
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx There’s no question that transportation needs to change. Outdated infrastructure is falling apart and doesn’t have the capacity to handle future growth and changes in transportation preferences....
Article - 09/29/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Policy and leadership
Miskolc, Hungary, is a mid-size industrial city that has taken on a number of civic improvement projects, among them planning a public square as a focal point for the city and an expanded mass transit system.Deputy Mayor Péter Pfliegler and other...
Article - 04/27/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
When the Smart Cities practice for Council Associate Partner IDC began tracking and forecasting what its researchers believed would be the biggest influences on the direction and depth of global smart city progress, the number one prediction on its...
Article - 01/14/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Data management, Policy and leadership
Smart and green cities are increasingly viewed as central to achieving a low-carbon, prosperous and resilient future. A recent report by The Global Commission on Energy and Climate, which includes former finance ministers and prestigious research...
Article - 09/09/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Transportation, Policy and leadership, Research, publications and web sites
Memorial Bridge in Portsmouth, NH will soon have integrated structural, traffic and environmental monitoring programs. It's one of nine cutting-edge traffic safety improvement projects funded by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).The idea...
Article - 08/19/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Instrumentation and control, Policy and leadership
London and Bangkok are at the top of MasterCard’s latest Global Destinations Cities Index. Just like last year, the year before that and the year before that. In fact, they’ve always topped the list. But instead of stopping there, the annual ranking...
Article - 06/05/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Payments, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Interoperability, Policy and leadership
Montreal -- Quebec, Canada's largest city – already takes pride in its reputation as a digital technology center. Now it wants to be a world-class model of a smart city. It worked hard to decide what route to take.In 2014 Montreal established a...
Article - 05/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Transportation, Connectivity, Policy and leadership
When Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti took the wraps off the city’s new multi-faceted sustainability plan, it was clear that he wasn’t going to be timid about dealing with the city’s increasing temperatures and growing population density.The new 20-...
Article - 04/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Transportation, Policy and leadership
Scroll down for a look at some nice honors recently bestowed on Council members…Bechtel national security sites win sustainability awards Four national security sites that Council Lead Partner Bechtel manages and operates with industry and...
Article - 12/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Policy and leadership
The City Climate Leadership Awards honored 10 worldwide cities for stepping up to tackle climate change. Sponsored by Council Associate Partner Siemens and the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, the winners were selected from nearly 90 entries....
Article - 09/26/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Policy and leadership
Coaxing downtown workers onto public transit and out of their cars is an aspiration of many city policymakers. Unfortunately, employers offering generous commuter perks may be thwarting their efforts.That's the conclusion of Virginia Tech...
Article - 08/13/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Policy and leadership
Council Associate Partner Siemens and the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group announced 31 finalist projects from 26 cities for its climate awards program. The global prize competition recognizes innovative city climate actions in 10 categories...
Article - 07/04/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Policy and leadership
The good news: U.S. President Obama is pushing a bipartisan transportation initiative that purports to be a "vision for 21st century transportation infrastructure." The good news part deux: The initiative includes funding ideas.The bad news: The...
Article - 03/05/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Policy and leadership
For the last few years, we've been hearing about the benefits of open data -- of ensuring government transparency by publicly releasing a city's data sets.We also badly need transparency in our smart city planning , so cities can learn from each...
Article - 03/05/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Transportation, Policy and leadership
I've always had an admiration for architects and urban planners. (I almost pursued a degree in the field.) But I continue to read complaints that today's practitioners are missing the boat. In particular, they are failing to bake smart technologies...
Article - 09/25/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Policy and leadership