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UK city launches transport challenge to better understand travel choices

Sunderland City Council is inviting start-ups and medium-sized businesses to develop solutions that analyse transport mobility patterns and behaviour.

WEF recruits latest cohort of young changemakers to boost circular economy

The Circular Shapers programme aims to leverage grassroots change to transform cities into centres of circular economy innovation to improve reuse and eliminate waste.

WEF recruits latest cohort of young changemakers to boost circular economy

The Circular Shapers programme aims to leverage grassroots change to transform cities into centres of circular economy innovation to improve reuse and eliminate waste.

Toronto to produce renewable natural gas from green bin waste

The city has installed a biogas upgrading facility at a solid waste management site, which will allow it to take the raw biogas produced from processing green bin organics.

Charging company powers fleet customers with local renewable energy

Charging-as-a-service provider Amply ensures only California-sourced renewable power from wind and solar sources is used by its fleet customers to help reduce the effects of climate change.

European testing facility planned to progress hyperloop

The testing site will facilitate a series of experiments to validate fundamental assumptions underpinning the operation of high-speed transportation systems.

Charging company powers fleet customers with local renewable energy

Charging-as-a-service provider Amply ensures only California-sourced renewable power from wind and solar sources is used by its fleet customers to help reduce the effects of climate change.

European testing facility planned to progress hyperloop

The testing site will facilitate a series of experiments to validate fundamental assumptions underpinning the operation of high-speed transportation systems.

London mixed-use regeneration site set to be UK's first fossil fuel free development

Across the Bankside Yards site, the use of all-electric energy via heat pumps, optimised facades and high efficiency building services systems will achieve net zero carbon in operation.

Plans unveiled to turn National Landing site into 5G-powered smart city

AT&T and JBG Smith envision the site as a canvas for smart city innovation in industry clusters such as defence, cybersecurity, cloud/edge computing, IoT and AI.

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The long term-impact of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union and the country’s poor performance in the Covid-19 pandemic, are among the complex set of challenges it faces if London is to remain one of the world’s most influential and enviable cities.

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Charging company powers fleet customers with local renewable energy

Charging company powers fleet customers with local renewable energy

News26 Jul 2021by SmartCitiesWorld news team

Charging-as-a-service provider Amply ensures only California-sourced renewable power from wind and solar sources is used by its fleet customers to help reduce the effects of climate change.

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Realising the future of intelligent education

Realising the future of intelligent educationSponsored article

Editor's Blog22 Jul 2021by Thomas Xu, President, Global Government Sales, Enterprise BG, Huawei

SmartCitiesWorld talks to Thomas Xu, Huawei about the need to accelerate the digital journey of the education industry.

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WEBINAR: Becoming truly smart – how can new cities add value to fibre with sensing?

WEBINAR: Becoming truly smart – how can new cities add value to fibre with sensing?

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Optimally installed fibre with Distributed Acoustic Sensing technology can vastly expand the range of applications that both improve quality of life for citizens and bring opportunities for other parties in the smart city ecosystem and greenfields.

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Bloomberg names 50 finalist cities for 2021 Global Mayors’ Challenge

The cities chosen are considered to have come up with the boldest urban innovations emerging from the pandemic with the challenge aiming to spread the most promising ideas.

Las Vegas deploys 5G-ready private network to help close digital divide

A plan is in place to expand the wireless network across the entire city of Las Vegas and potentially neighbouring cities, with a goal of improving connectivity for a range of city services.

Plans unveiled to turn National Landing site into 5G-powered smart city

AT&T and JBG Smith envision the site as a canvas for smart city innovation in industry clusters such as defence, cybersecurity, cloud/edge computing, IoT and AI.

Report outlines 15 actions for cities to tackle climate change

It examines five climate hazards – extreme heat, drought, wildfire, inland flooding and coastal flooding – and identifies actions directed at these, which can also help cities build systemic resilience.

Chicago street furniture used to launch air quality sensing pilot

Data from sensors will be accessible to the public on smartphones by scanning a QR code and will also be fed into the Chicago Open Data portal.

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Our editorial newsletter which pulls together our latest news items into one email, direct to your inbox. We'll also feature our latest city interviews, Special Reports and Guest Opinions.

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Realising the future of intelligent educationSponsored article

SmartCitiesWorld talks to Thomas Xu, Huawei about the need to accelerate the digital journey of the education industry.

The importance of building with – not over – nature

Noah Baars, cities analyst, and Laxmi Haigh, lead of editorial, Circle Economy, highlight why cities need to think ...

How IoT technology is making parking smarter in Wolfsburg

Mathias Petri, founder and CSO, StoneOne and Annelore Burggraf, senior consultant, Wolfsburg AG, explain how the German ...

Londoners deserve better transport information

If we’re serious about getting better quality crowding information, we need to leave historic data in the past and ...

Hybrid learning is about to become the new normal in education Sponsored article

Huawei’s Frank Huang explores how the pandemic has highlighted the importance of building robust and resilient ...

As construction booms, India must tackle its AC addiction

Vivek Gilani, director of cBalance and a partner in Ashden’s Fair Cooling programme, gives insights into how India must ...

Connecting the silos to open up the smart city

Franck Le Gall, CEO, EGM, and Juanjo Hierro, CTO, FIWARE Foundation, explains why interoperability and open systems ...

Smart lighting: why we are discussing it again Sponsored by Paradox Engineering

Smart streetlighting is one of the more mature smart city applications but, when making a business case, cities must ...

A hydrogen-fuelled city – a practical reality for the UK or a pipe dream?

Hydrogen’s flexibility can unlock new use cases for smart cities.

City of Ottawa: Driving the future of mobility and smart citiesSponsored by Accenture

We hear from Sonya Shorey at Invest Ottawa as she discusses the innovation, its impact on the community and global ...

Why buses will be the catalyst for electrified public transport

Think Tank: Building Circular Cities

In the latest of our opinion pieces from members of our Advisory Board, we explore how we break away from the linear ...

The road ahead for machine learningSponsored by Cloudera

Michael Ger, managing director, manufacturing and automotive, Cloudera, explains why the data-intensive processes ...

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smartmicro: seamless object tracking at the intersectionSponsored by smartmicro

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The role of artificial intelligence in the fight against Covid-19

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Watch: How connected and autonomous vehicles can manage data Sponsored by Cloudera & IBM

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SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – London

The long term-impact of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union and the country’s poor performance in the Covid-19 pandemic, are among the complex set of challenges it faces if London is to remain one of the world’s most influential and enviable cities.

Smart Cities Reports

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Sydney

In 2020, the City of Sydney released a Smart City Strategic Framework to harness the opportunities brought about by digital disruption, to plan for uncertainty and to sustain a global reputation as a leading place to live, work, learn and visit.

Smart Cities Reports

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Chicago

Chicago is looking to smart city technology to solve issues including poverty, inequality and racial segregation.

Research

White Paper: Artificial Intelligence Within Cities – The Next Stage in Societal Digital TransformationSponsored by Fiware

In collaboration with Matthew James Bailey (leading authority, pioneer, and consultant in innovation, AI and AI Ethics, Smart Cities, IoT, and a renowned author), this brand new white paper focusses on the role played by artificial intelligence (AI) in shaping the future experience of Smart Cities.

White paper: Autonomous Vehicles and the data that is powering them

Data, and the effective processing of it, will be central to a successful connected and autonomous vehicle ecosystem.

Insight Report: Smart lighting: how switched on are you?

Smart lighting is one of the more mature smart city applications but it is important that leaders understand the questions they should be asking before investing in a system

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