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.
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.
The testing site will facilitate a series of experiments to validate fundamental assumptions underpinning the operation of high-speed transportation systems.
The Circular Shapers programme aims to leverage grassroots change to transform cities into centres of circular economy innovation to improve reuse and eliminate waste.
Gordon Feller examines how two cities in Nevada are benefiting from being able to plug in to their technology partner’s existing infrastructure and platforms to ignite smart city innovation.
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.
The platform integrates all available mobility models and, as well as making more travel options accessible for riders, it provides data services to analyse mobility trends.
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.
It is hoped the simplicity of the payment method will play a vital role in promoting use of public transport in the Portuguese city, enabling more environmentally sustainable mobility.
The tool aims to ensure decision-making better reflects the diversity of the city and, as well as increase transparency, the mayor believes it will help to chart a new course for San Diego.
Senet claims it is the largest and densest metropolitan deployment of public carrier-grade LoRaWAN connectivity in North America and will have capacity to support millions of IoT device connections.
Acciona, CAF and EIT InnoEnergy will provide knowledge in key areas for the high-speed transport system, including infrastructure, vehicle and the industrial development framework, at European level.
L-Charge claims its service operates as a mobile mini power station which generates energy, stores it and enables other vehicles to recharge without needing to be connected to the grid.
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.
By adding the remaining corridors to the existing Scoot network of intersections, the Californian city will have all arterials operating based on real-time roadway demands.
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.
Tier’s fleet of 30 scooters will be equipped with computer vision technology to increase safety and allow researchers to explore a new source of smart city data.
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.
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 council’s intention is to plant more than 800 hectares of land with trees over the next decade, as the Welsh capital works towards its goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2030.
The $2m project is the result of a matched federal grant between the US Department of Transportation and Cary, and is the first of its kind in the US state.
Noah Baars, cities analyst, and Laxmi Haigh, lead of editorial, Circle Economy, highlight why cities need to think about environmental and societal challenges in an integrated way.
Gordon Feller examines how two cities in Nevada are benefiting from being able to plug in to their technology partner’s existing infrastructure and platforms to ignite smart city innovation.
