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Phoenix smart city partnership to drive efficiency

Smart waste25 Sep 2023

Deal will put Rubicon’s smart city software at the heart of Phoenix’s Public Works Department, providing waste and recycling collection to some 418,000 locations.

City of Mesa uses traffic data analytics to increase safety

Analytics21 Sep 2023

City of Mesa’s Transportation Department is expanding use of UrbanLogiq’s traffic data analytics platform, adding its crash analysis tool to its capabilities.

Tackling extreme heat isn’t a summertime job – it’s a year-round effort

Climate action09 Aug 2023

Ladd Keith, PhD, assistant professor of the University of Arizona, urges cities to assess the successes and areas for improvement from the past summer and use the fall, winter and spring seasons to implement effective strategies.

City of Flagstaff plans critical infrastructure upgrades

Climate action07 Jun 2023

Project will provide $6.1m in savings to the Arizona city and enable infrastructure upgrades while accelerating progress on Flagstaff’s Climate Neutrality Plan.

Arizona expands electric charging network

Electric vehicles20 Sep 2022

Invisible Urban Charging is partnering with EV Charging of Arizona to roll out around 14,000 chargers across the US state which is home to more than 40,000 electric vehicles.

City of Phoenix reduces operational emissions by one quarter

Climate action04 Aug 2022

The greenhouse gas reductions come from energy efficiency, transportation electrification, and renewable energy and mean the city is on target to meeting the 2025 goal of a 40 per cent reduction from 2005.

Scottsdale chosen as North American home for sustainable cities programme

Sustainable development goals04 Jan 2022

The United Cities North America site will house the programme’s Innovation Hub, which will use AI, machine learning and digital twin technologies to allow cities to improve sustainability and address critical challenges.

Next stage of Phoenix cool pavement programme underway

News21 Oct 2021

This next round of the programme and study will analyse two new asphalt coatings that have higher reflective values than the material applied to select citywide sites last year.

Awards recognise smart city progress made by North America municipalities

News14 Jul 2021

Projects ranging from the use of AI and machine learning to inspect roadways to a housing rights challenge were among those highlighted as making “unprecedented progress”.

Data-driven insights initiative aims to help cities recover from Covid-19

News01 Jun 2020

Mastercard is launching a set of tools and a series of research studies to help inform cities’ responses and decision-making as they recover from the coronavirus pandemic.

Preparing tomorrow’s city and utility workforce, today

Opinions22 May 2020

AVEVA’s Douglas Nunez discusses how cloud based learning is quickly and cost-effectively upskilling the utilities sector

Which US states rank as innovation champions?

News09 Jan 2020

The Consumer Technology Association ranks the states on how supportive their policies are and the latest list shows innovation is not confined to the coastal tech hubs.

University collaboration aims to build smart communities in Greater Phoenix

News20 Nov 2019

Cox Communications and Arizona State University have partnered to create a "Collaboratory" with the aim of creating a smarter region.

Mapillary reaches milestone with US DOTs

News13 Apr 2019

Utah, Florida, Arizona, Connecticut and Vermont have all uploaded complete photologs of their road networks on to the street-level imagery platform.

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