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Over the past 18 months, red light cameras in St. Louis recorded roughly $5.6 million in violations. Now, the city will have to give all of that money back.Traffic violation cameras were once in the fast lane in many cities, but between court...
Article - 08/28/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Transportation
A booming economy is normally a good thing, but it’s part of the reason traffic headaches are getting worse across Europe. In nearly every major city, traffic delays are getting worse -- some by several hours each year. But the European city that...
Article - 08/26/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Transportation
Some cities have used commuter rail for nearly four decades to help get people to their destinations. In some places, it’s working quite well. But are people willing to pay for more? Phoenix, Arizona, is one of the cities about to find out as it...
Article - 08/21/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Citizen engagement
Car2Go vehicles are for sharing. The service from Council Lead Partner Daimler gives city dwellers wheels when they need them. But even though the cars are shared, the new version of the vehicles, rolling out now in Vancouver, B.C., are much more...
Article - 08/19/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Citizen engagement
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
In their early years, automobiles and airplanes were laughed at and criticized by many. Something about the very idea that a vehicle could travel faster than a horse – and why would you want to fly through the air anyway? Now both are part of...
Article - 08/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security, Transportation
Endesa, a Spanish subsidiary of Council Lead Partner Enel and car maker Nissan, which manufactures the popular Leaf EV, are working together to bring vehicle-to-grid (V2G) to Europe in a big way. The two companies hope to be the first to introduce...
Article - 08/12/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation
Cities around the world are getting better at many things, but safety on the roads is not one of them. Already, 1.24 million people are killed on roads worldwide each year. And as cities grow larger and more people inhabit them, traffic fatalities...
Article - 08/12/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Transportation, Computing resources
"CRG doesn't build one-off applications such as standalone parking apps that don't connect to anything else ... and inevitably become stale," explained Dr. Gregory G. Curtin in announcing Civic Resource Group International's new CivicConnect™...
Article - 08/07/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Computing resources, Connectivity
Council Lead Partner Daimler, parent company of Mercedes-Benz, recently completed a two-year real-world study of electric cars. The multi-purpose study, referred to as eMerge, yielded a lot of information about driver behavior, EV technology and...
Article - 08/07/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Research, publications and web sites
Part of a series by travel industry marketing and intelligence publication Skift and Council Lead Partner MasterCard, this video depicts how Singapore is developing a Smart Nation Program to conveniently move people throughout the city and provide...
Resources - 08/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation