Collaboration between Hayden’s real-time location accuracy and Lyt’s transit signal priority system seeks to enhance public transit reliability and experience.
Inaugural plan from the Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund Committee outlines strategies for community-led energy projects and climate solutions.
Flowbird and Umojo want to change the way cities approach parking management and create more sustainable, user-centric urban environments, starting in Portland.
Portland’s smart city team has developed the policy with the community, focusing on reducing harm to those most vulnerable to and harmed by surveillance tech.
The plan includes 43 actions across the electricity supply, buildings, transportation and industry sectors to help the city in Oregon reach 50 per cent carbon reduction by 2030 and net zero by 2050.
Troy Moon, sustainability coordinator for the City of Portland, Maine, details the city’s approach to sustainability, including engaging with citizens, making equitable and inclusive climate action a community activity and collaboration across city government.
LED streetlights across the US city’s greater area are dark-sky friendly with a colour temperature of 3,000-4,000 Kelvin and claim to use 50 per cent less energy than traditional highway and tunnel lighting fixtures.
The cities mark the initial wave of network operator Everynet’s deployment that includes the top 36 metropolitan areas and key logistics corridors across the US.
The StreetMan system from Dhyan Networks and Technologies has enabled the City to optimise the distribution of controllers between gateways resulting in a more reliable RF network.
The annual What Works Cities Certification commends excellence in using evidence and data to improve city services, increase transparency, and promote civic engagement.
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.
Analysis from StreetLight Data reveals that New York City, Sarasota and Portland lead when it comes to the reduced impact of transportation on the environment.
Report sets out to demonstrate how cities can be “critical drivers” of solutions for the multiple short-term challenges created by Covid-19 as well as emerging long-term challenges of climate change.
Research will focus on the various safety aspects of e-scooter use as well as rider travel behaviour and the challenges and opportunities of the integration of e-scooters within a city.
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.
Aspen, Nashville, Omaha, and West Palm Beach will team with kerb management company Coord on “smart zone” programmes tailored to their individual mobility challenges.
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.
The framework aims to operationalise use cases and is designed to be deployed and tested as a tool to mitigate risks from potential unethical practices of the technology.
New mobility options can improve the livability of cities but without the right strategy could have the polar opposite effect, say authors Giel Mertens and Rolf Bastiaanssen of Bax & Company, and Nico Larco of the University of Oregon.
IoT sensors are deployed in many smart city projects but recycling the small electronics used in them is difficult. Portland wants to promote sustainable procurement and re-usability.
Austin, Athens, Lisbon and Venice are the latest major cities to have ‘peaked’ their greenhouse gas emissions, meaning they won’t rise any further and are now falling.
On average the projects are saving the municipalities almost 70 per cent in annual kWH hours and reducing consumption by more than 2.3 million kWh annually.
A study has compared data on livability, work intensity, institutional support and legislation to rank cities based on their success in promoting work-life balance to citizens.
Equity consulting advisors will participate as members of the smart cities steering committee and help to evaluate proposed projects and shape long-term partnerships.
In the 2019 City Clean Energy Scorecard, the city earned the highest score for its building policies and a perfect score for its energy efficiency outreach and programmes.
Portland General Electric is building a roadmap to a “virtual power plant” that is powered by customer devices and behaviours rather than traditional generation.
Simply asking people what they want through consultations, surveys and focus groups isn’t enough – cities have to reach a much broader range of people and move towards true ‘co-creation’.
Portland General Electric claims it is integrating smart grid technology on a scale never attempted before in the US and partnering with customers to decarbonise the grid
