Special Reports

Iain Macbeth, Head of Foresight, Transport for London (TfL), provides insight into how cities can plan for the rise of urban air mobility.

Las Vegas, Arizona and Utah are moving ahead with sensor-based technology to improve transport.

Data and planning experts from Transport for London outline how user-friendly geospatial data and business processes underpin the delivery of the Mayor’s ambitious Transport Strategy.

Trash littering city streets, parks and public places looms large in the minds of mayors and city leaders everywhere. Here’s how cities such as Las Vegas are using technology to solve the problem.

City leaders outline how they are putting digital inclusion at the centre of their smart city strategies.

Delta Electronics’ M.S. Huang urges cities and technology vendors to practise what they preach for a more sustainable future.

Manchester’s CityVerve has generated a ‘blueprint’ for people-centred smart cities.

Cities are at the beginning of a crisis and the way we handle it will define the future of humanity, says City of Palo Alto CIO, Jonathan Reichental. Heavy stuff. However, he is optimistic that these challenges, coupled with advancing and emerging technologies, present a huge opportunity to generate economic value and do good for society.

There are set to be almost 300 million smart homes installed around the world by 2022, according to a new report from ABI Research, and therefore smart home devices and services will play an increasingly important part in smart city programmes. We talked to the research report author, Jonathan Collins, Research Director at ABI Research, to find out more.

Dockless mobility services are a fascinating example of good intentions hitting the real world, with sometimes unexpected results. While there’s a way to go, steps are being taken to calm the chaos.