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Delve into the how the convergence of visual sensors, digital twins and artificial intelligence are revolutionising urban mobility.

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SmartCitiesWorld Pulse Survey: city priorities, technologies and challenges

From the rise of AI to evolving expectations around public safety, sustainability, and mobility, cities today are being asked to react quickly to a raft of challenges, often with limited resources and increasing complexity.

Unlocking the potential of edge AI for smarter citiesSponsored by PNY Technologies

Youssef Nadiri, product and business development manager of Smart Cities & Spaces at PNY Technologies, explains where cities could get started with edge AI, and the importance of working with a partner who knows the city ecosystem as well as the technology itself.

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SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Shenzhen

SmartCitiesWorld City Profiles explore the city of Shenzhen, designated as China’s first special economic zone and a role model of urban modernisation. Find out more about Shenzhen’s smart city strategy in this 16-page report.

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Las Vegas

SmartCitiesWorld City Profiles explore the city of Las Vegas with its unprecedented growth, urban development, and leaps of imagination.

Podcasts

Podcast: in conversation with Xavier Brice, CEO, Sustrans

The latest episode of the SmartCitiesWorld Podcast sees editor Luke Antoniou joined by Sustrans CEO Xavier Brice for a conversation on all things sustainable urban mobility.

Podcast: The data tech unlocking new value in smart cities

In the latest SmartCitiesWorld podcast, Graeme Neill speaks to Alexander Zschaler, regional sales director at Cloudera Germany.

Opinions

How AI and biometrics are shaping next-generation mobility paymentsSponsored by ST Engineering

Fuad Alsagoff, Senior Manager, Mobility Payment Systems, Urban Solutions at ST Engineering, explains how mobility payments are evolving with a new wave of technology – and how openness and inclusive services are driving adoption.

Data-driven mobility in cities: the role of maps and traffic dataSponsored by TomTom

Ralf-Peter Schäfer, VP Product Management Traffic and Travel Information at TomTom, explains how mapping data, combined with real-time and community traffic data, is driving a revolution in urban mobility.

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Trend Report 2025: Planning and operating thriving cities – innovation for smarter urban living

Trend Series

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OnDemand Panel Discussion (20 Jan): Digital twins and AI as the intelligent operating layer for cities

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How cities can own their data and their future with sovereign AI

Podcasts

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Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 32 – Flood and energy resilience in Quezon City

Urban Exchange Podcast

Tune in for the latest Urban Exchange where we get a first-hand account of city resilience measures from Quezon City following unexpected extreme rainfall.

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Leading data infrastructure is helping power better lives in Sunderland

AI and Machine Learning

Sunderland is redefining the notion of a data-driven city through its sophisticated data platform, explain the leaders of the city’s 20-year public-private joint venture.

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The latest news on climate change concerning smart city projects across the world.

Tool launched to track Europe’s race to net-zero transport

Tool launched to track Europe’s race to net-zero transport

Climate action11 Dec 2025

Part of the Path2Zero project, PolicyFrameMapper is a dashboard designed to map, compare and analyse transport decarbonisation strategies across Europe.

Why cities must build “active mobility resilience” into strategies

Why cities must build “active mobility resilience” into strategies

Road travel25 Jul 2025

With more than half of all urban land in American cities devoted to car infrastructure, a new report calls for a strategic reorientation of city planning.

Mumbai tackles congestion with electric ferries

Mumbai tackles congestion with electric ferries

Sea travel18 Jun 2025

JalVimana has bought and will operate an initial fleet of 11 Candela P-12 electric hydrofoil ferries on the city’s waterways with plans to grow significantly.

Countdown to Cities Climate Action Summit 2025

Countdown to Cities Climate Action Summit 2025

Climate action22 May 2025

SmartCitiesWorld’s third Summit takes place on 24-25 June. Here’s a taste of what you can expect and how you can register to be part of this seminal event.

Philadelphia hosts Smart and Sustainable Mobility Showcase

Philadelphia hosts Smart and Sustainable Mobility Showcase

Road travel20 May 2025

The event aimed to foster collaboration between public agencies and private innovators and accelerate the city’s transition to sustainable urban mobility.

Low emission zone penalties help fund Glasgow environmental projects

Low emission zone penalties help fund Glasgow environmental projects

Climate action07 Apr 2025

Eighteen organisations will receive grants of between £20,000 and £50,000 from the Low Emission Zone Community Support Fund to deliver a broad range of schemes.

US lab partners to identify traffic signal energy metrics

US lab partners to identify traffic signal energy metrics

Congestion31 Jan 2025

Iteris is working with the DoE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory on a project focused on energy metrics in traffic signal performance measures.

How shared transport can reduce UK emissions

How shared transport can reduce UK emissions

Climate action03 Dec 2024

A study carried out by CoMoUK reveals the extent to which the use of shared transport schemes in England and Wales could lead to a reduction in emissions.

US Dot launches local climate action playbook

US Dot launches local climate action playbook

Climate action26 Nov 2024

Climate Strategies That Work playbook includes 28 solutions to help reduce carbon pollution and create more resilient and sustainable transportation systems.

Smart Cities and Communities Survey 2024: let us know your priorities

Smart Cities and Communities Survey 2024: let us know your priorities

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SmartCitiesWorld is partnering with Honeywell for our latest smart city survey which aims to find answers to some of the critical challenges faced by cities today.

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City leaders to gather in Madrid to share ideas and promote innovation

Bloomberg CityLab in Madrid builds on a partnership with the municipality under foundation’s expanding work to strengthen local government capacity across Europe.

Digital taxi service launches at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

Schiphol Taxi Network is working with Invers CloudBoxx and GoodMoovs to implement the system for a growing fully electric fleet at the airport in Amsterdam.

UKPN aims to accelerate implementation of low-carbon tech

The EcoVar device helps maximise the use of the existing electricity network, enabling more homes to adopt clean technologies like EVs and solar panels.

WEF expands Fourth Industrial Revolution Network

The new centres will be in Abu Dhabi, Andhra Pradesh, London and Paris and will focus on AI, frontier technologies, energy transition and cyber resilience.

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How AI and biometrics are shaping next-generation mobility paymentsSponsored by ST Engineering

Fuad Alsagoff, Senior Manager, Mobility Payment Systems, Urban Solutions at ST Engineering, explains how mobility ...

How cities can get ahead with AI-enabled traffic managementSponsored by ST Engineering

Dr Chong Chee Chung, Vice President, ITS Architecting, Mobility Road, Urban Solutions at ST Engineering, explains how a ...

Jointly building a smart city helps us all enjoy better urban livesSponsored by Huawei

Closed ecosystems mean limited choices, limited innovation, limited success, writes York Yuekun.

Our society needs systemic changes. Hyperloop is just one way we can get there

Hyperloop’s futuristic concept overshadows its substantial environmental benefits, argues Juan Vicén, co-founder of ...

Smart cities at the edge: deploying decentralised success

Edge computing could be a solution for smart cities wanting to process large amounts of data, writes Ciaran Dynes, SVP ...

Cities prepare for the electrification of transport in an ever-changing world

E-mobility is set to transform all aspects of transportation across the next decade as the technology becomes ...

The 14 pillars of a smart city

Strategies must take a holistic approach encompassing people, institutions, structures and operations, say Clint Vince, ...

New energy, changing behaviour and blockchain: 5 transport predictions for 2020

Rabih Arzouni, Fujitsu UK’s CTO of transport, shares his transport predictions for the year ahead.

Smart city trend tracker: The top stories on SmartCitiesWorld in 2019

We round up our main takeaways from smart city developments in 2019. We’d love to hear yours.

Removing the roadblocks to smart city ROI

Overarching strategies, funding approaches and business models all need to be adjusted if cities are to see a genuine ...

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Find out how Dublin is innovating to improve experiences and services for its communities in the latest SmartCitiesWorld City Profile, including digital twin projects, traffic reduction, and economic growth.

Latest Trend Report

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Trend Series

Download our latest report to uncover how artificial intelligence is being used to support cities in how they plan and operate city services to ensure they are vibrant, sustainable and economically thriving modern spaces.

Latest Webinar

OnDemand Panel Discussion (20 Jan): Digital twins and AI as the intelligent operating layer for cities

Webinars

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Podcasts

Tune into the SmartCitiesWorld podcast to understand the world of sovereign AI for cities, featuring PNY Technologies’ Youssef Nadiri as our expert guest.

Latest Urban Exchange Podcast

Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 32 – Flood and energy resilience in Quezon City

Urban Exchange Podcast

Tune in for the latest Urban Exchange where we get a first-hand account of city resilience measures from Quezon City following unexpected extreme rainfall.

Latest Special Report

Leading data infrastructure is helping power better lives in Sunderland

AI and Machine Learning

Sunderland is redefining the notion of a data-driven city through its sophisticated data platform, explain the leaders of the city’s 20-year public-private joint venture.

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SmartCitiesWorld Newsletters (Daily/Weekly)

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Special Reports

SmartCitiesWorld Pulse Survey: city priorities, technologies and challenges

SmartCitiesWorld Pulse Survey: city priorities, technologies and challenges

Air quality: how to take action on the silent killer in our cities

Air quality: how to take action on the silent killer in our cities

Green, active and integrated: mobility in focus at Cities Climate Action Summit

Green, active and integrated: mobility in focus at Cities Climate Action Summit

City Profiles

Smart Cities Reports

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Shenzhen

SmartCitiesWorld City Profiles explore the city of Shenzhen, designated as China’s first special economic zone and a role model of urban modernisation. Find out more about Shenzhen’s smart city strategy in this 16-page report.

Smart Cities Reports

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Las Vegas

SmartCitiesWorld City Profiles explore the city of Las Vegas with its unprecedented growth, urban development, and leaps of imagination.

Smart Cities Reports

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Seattle

We explore Seattle’s journey to becoming a data-driven city and how it plans to continue to develop its smart city strengths

Research

Insight Report: City as a system – linking edge intelligence and digital twins for better urban life

Insight Report: City as a system – linking edge intelligence and digital twins for better urban life

How edge computing, AI and digital twins can combine to improve community outcomes and inclusivity as well as build resilience

White Paper: A blueprint for using AI to create smarter cities

White Paper: A blueprint for using AI to create smarter cities

This white paper maps the end-to-end journey from data discovery to implementing complex AI models that can provide customised insight. It puts forward a blueprint for cities to use artificial intelligence to become smarter and more liveable by taking an outcomes-focused approach.

White Paper: Building truly sustainable cities

White Paper: Building truly sustainable cities

This white paper covers how connected systems can help cities build sustainability and wellbeing into their indoor and outdoor spaces. We look at the scale of the decarbonisation challenge faced by cities, how cities can use connected technologies to create greener buildings and the vital role of retrofitting. We includes detailed analysis of the energy and cost-savings that energy efficiency programmes can bring in cities.