Smart Cities News

The participating cities are New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

A new study highlights the benefits demonstrated by on-demand microtransit in four cities and finds that it could help cities reduce traffic by 15 to 30 per cent if deployed at scale and with the right regulatory framework.

Boston’s Digital Equity Fund provides support to community-based organisations that help ensure all residents can participate in the digital world.

The study by digital healthcare start-up Medbelle sought to identify the leading hospital cities based on a range of criteria, including citizen accessibility.

The City of Boston has released an update to its Climate Action Plan, focused on buildings – the single greatest source of emissions city-wide.

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.

A new ranking reveals that Singapore, London and New York are marginally better prepared but governments and private sector institutions around the world need to do more.

Of 24 cities, Seattle received the highest rating overall and St. Louis the lowest.

Research finds that urban digital twinning and city modelling technology is having a transformative effect on how cities are designed, monitored, and managed.

The UK capital stood out from other cities in areas such as social entrepreneurship, co-working spaces, education, artificial intelligence and concerts.