Hear Sarah Wray, Editor at SmartCitiesWorld and ReachNow as they discuss how cities and transport authorities can get started with making MaaS vision a reality (whatever stage they’re at now)
Scott Shepard, Chief Commercial Officer, Free2Move, highlights lessons learned in Europe and North America about how to succeed with shared mobility so that cities can leverage the best from mobility innovations and investments.
Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, Port of Long Beach and Port of Los Angeles unveiled the partnership strategy for the corridor across the Pacific.
Sixteen C40 cities have signed a commitment to address flooding and drought by 2030, with each city taking steps to improve water access, and flood protection.
Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator’s Clean Energy Partnership aims to reduce GHG emissions by an additional 15 per cent before 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Wisk concluded its flight programme at Long Beach Airport with the first public demonstration of an eVTOL autonomous air taxi flight in the Los Angeles region.
Using AI and satellite images, Arup’s Urban Heat Snapshot mapped the most extreme hot spots in a 150km2 sample of the urban centres of a range of cities.
The Californian regulators have approved resolutions granting additional operating authority for Cruise and Waymo to conduct commercial passenger services.
The Bezos Earth Fund’s Greening America’s Cities initiative aims to enhance underserved urban US communities with more parks, trees and community gardens.
The three-year contract awarded to smart mobility infrastructure specialist Iteris will enable the agency to analyse traffic data throughout the region.
It will support science-driven, local climate initiatives in cities, starting with Bogotá, Dar es Salaam, Los Angeles, Quezon City, Vancouver and Warsaw.
Serve’s commercial agreement allows for it to deploy its robots on Uber Eats in multiple markets across the US, with up to 2,000 Serve robots to be fielded.
As part of its next-gen bus system strategy, LA Metro is incorporating the electronic displays to improve customer experience in the city’s downtown areas.
Projects selected for the RCIFunds aim to strengthen community resilience, close racial equity gaps and support small businesses in resilience preparedness.
Lauren Faber O’Connor, chief sustainability officer, City of Los Angeles, explains why equity and accountability must be front and centre of its action plans.
Programme will see the city add 3,000 upgraded bus shelters as high-tech mobility hubs as it seeks to improve shade, amenities, and the mass transit experience.
Motional and Lyft have announced the second launch of their fully driverless ride-hail service as part of its multi-city partnership, featuring the Ioniq 5 AV.
The Venture Fellows programme will invest in diverse innovators and community-based solutions to help combat the impacts of climate change, with Los Angeles and Miami selected as pilot cities.
The annual event, now in its fifth year, is organised by the Global Organisation of Smart Cities, a Taipei City Government initiative and typically attracts entries from more than 40 cities and 25 countries.
Research identifies that the most successful cities balance regulation, incentives, innovation and accelerators and work in partnership with landlords, investors, developers and occupiers.
The Savills 2022 Impacts programme examined 500 cities using metrics around economic strength, knowledge economy and technology, environmental and social governance, and real estate investment.
Supported by nearly $18m in state and city funding, the project aims to offer subsidised transit fares for 2,000 pilot area residents who have historically lacked options for how to get to where they need to go safely.
City and regional leaders are committing to accelerating the adoption of services within their own geographies through the new coalition, whose founding members include Amsterdam and Los Angeles.
The three-year programme will enhance connected bus signal technology for the Greater Los Angeles area, covering 83 square miles of LA County communities.
With safety and mobility inherently linked, the micromobility company will provide free rides on its scooters and bikes for women to verified SafeUp guardians in a number of cities.
Designed to encourage and support cities to ramp up their climate action and ambition, the A list is based on environmental data disclosed by cities to the CDP-ICLEI unified reporting system.
It forms part of its Smart Bikeshare programme, which aims to meet the multimodal mobility needs of cities without monopolising transportation options or competing with local businesses.
The decision followed a research and modelling process initiated five years ago which proved that 100 per cent clean energy is not only feasible, but highly beneficial to the economy and jobs as well as the environment.
In partnership with Tortoise and Urb-E, AxleHire has been running automated delivery pilots in Los Angeles and New York City, and reports these will be scaled nationally in 2021.
The southern Californian city has awarded a multi-year contract to Iteris for its arterial congestion management system to augment traffic management operations.
C40 Cities is supporting nine mayors from cities around the world to simultaneously address these connected issues by curbing emissions, creating jobs, and building resilience.
The selected cities will receive $50,000 to work with local community partners to transform streets into community assets that aid in the Covid-19 pandemic recovery.
Drawing from case studies around the world, a new report highlights how a new generation of smart lampposts is helping cities to respond to and tackle the pandemic.
It follows integration of the transport app with taxi mobility platform Curb which allows riders to get real-time estimated arrival times for the nearest taxis.
The MaaS provider has added new features to its mobility app that shows riders how crowded or empty a bus is before they board, and whether it is accessible to wheelchair users.
The strategy will help Los Angeles map out challenges identified by local, diverse stakeholders surrounding public airspace and property rights – and implement solutions to these issues.
Digitising the kerb opens the door for more dynamic regulations and new approaches to kerb-usage fees that could enable more goal-driven management strategies.
Oslo, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Budapest have committed to clean construction to build a sustainable future for the industry and cut emissions from projects in their cities in half by 2030.
London, Los Angeles, New York City and Hamilton are the latest cities to join Mastercard’s co-creation framework that aims to help build more inclusive and sustainable communities.
The Connected Cities Lab will collaborate with several branches across council to support the city’s planning and use data and evidence as the foundation for priority and planning.
The 2020 Smart City Index measures citizens’ perceptions of the impact that technology has on their lives, surveying them on areas such as governance, health and safety, mobility and opportunities.
The Volcker Alliance’s initiative aims to connect governments’ hiring and research needs with local university capacity and is expanding into Chicago and North Carolina.
By confirming their undertaking, the mayors of Bogotá and Rio de Janeiro come together with a coalition of 35 other city mayors that aim to ensure clean air for some 150 million people.
Project Room’s winning design reimagines the traditional lamp post as a bundle of tubes where each service is assigned a dedicated tube fabricated from steel or aluminum.
The C40 Cities network has announced its agenda for delivering a sustainable and equitable recovery plan from the pandemic and calls for support for the vision from national government.
The first of two cross-country routes to be completed this year, it spans 11 states and over 2,700 miles to take drivers from Los Angeles to Washington DC.
Moovit and Tranzito are joining forces to create kerbside mobility hubs which enable users to plan their trips and book and pay for shared mobility rides from A to B without a smartphone.
Even if US cities could maintain a 10 per cent drop in traffic volumes in the recovery phase, they could significantly improve their climate impact standing, according to a new study by StreetLight Data.
The analysts behind the seventh Shining Cities 2020 report said each year the study has revealed that more local leaders are pursuing solar projects and smart local policies.
Chaired by the mayor of Milan, the task force has been established to drive forward an economic recovery that improves public health, reduces inequality and addresses the climate crisis.