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OnDemand Webinar: The IoT is rapidly overhauling how logistics and transportation industries operate

OnDemand Webinar: The IoT is rapidly overhauling how logistics and transportation industries operate

The Internet of Things (IoT) is playing a vital role in the development of smart transportation and logistics. Smart transportation has facilitated huge development in the field of smart cities.

Special Reports

Smart City Expo: think digital, think green, think inclusion

Smart City Expo: think digital, think green, think inclusion

The first day of the online event confirmed that the smart cities sector is well aware of its destination but it’s how it gets there that will be the problem.
Innovative partnership powers Atlanta’s future

Innovative partnership powers Atlanta’s future

A pioneering initiative between Georgia Power, the City of Atlanta and a cohort of partners is showing what’s next in smart cities and demonstrating the power of public-private partnerships.

Smart Cities Reports

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Smart cities and cybersecurity: Is it wise to get smarter?

Smart cities and cybersecurity: Is it wise to get smarter?

As the popularity and inevitability of smart cities expand, so too does a cybercriminal’s opportunistic attack surface. Keiron Shepherd, F5 Networks, evaluates the risks.
Intelligent infrastructure: From data to wisdom

Intelligent infrastructure: From data to wisdom

Amey’s Alexandra Knight looks at how to bridge the gap from data to wisdom, and why it matters.

Special Reports

Here at SmartCitiesWorld, we produce Special Reports on a weekly basis. If you would like to contribute to any special report or opinion pieces please contact our editor Luke Antoniou on lukea@smartcitiesworld.net
Trieste’s enduring freedom and agility – with a little help from AcegasApsAmga and Siemens 
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Trieste’s enduring freedom and agility – with a little help from AcegasApsAmga and Siemens 

Digital twins16 Jun 2025
SmartCitiesWorld chair Paul Wilson, a guest on Siemens’ Smart Infrastructure Italian Press Tour June 2025, tells the story of Trieste, its changing port in an era of electrification, and how digital twin technology is supporting management of the city’s energy grid. 

Latest City Profile

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Sunderland

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Sunderland

Smart Cities Reports
Find out how Sunderland is repositioning itself as a leading smart city – using digital infrastructure and low-carbon innovation to build a resilient, future-focused economy in the latest SmartCitiesWorld City Profile.

Latest Trend Report

Trend Report: Planning and operating thriving cities – innovation for smarter urban living

Trend Report: Planning and operating thriving cities – innovation for smarter urban living

Trend Series
Download our latest report to uncover how artificial intelligence is being used to support cities in how they plan and operate city services to ensure they are vibrant, sustainable and economically thriving modern spaces.

Latest Webinar

Trend Report Panel Discussion (21 May): Operating smarter: using digital twins and AI to reshape urban infrastructure management

Trend Report Panel Discussion (21 May): Operating smarter: using digital twins and AI to reshape urban infrastructure management

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Discover how AI-powered digital twins are transforming urban infrastructure and how these innovations can improve efficiency, resilience, and sustainability.

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Latest Urban Exchange Podcast

Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 32 – Flood and energy resilience in Quezon City

Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 32 – Flood and energy resilience in Quezon City

Urban Exchange Podcast
Tune in for the latest Urban Exchange where we get a first-hand account of city resilience measures from Quezon City following unexpected extreme rainfall.
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Five megaprojects that could transform urban economies
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Five megaprojects that could transform urban economies

Economic Development16 Aug 2024
SmartCitiesWorld explores five of the world’s biggest infrastructure projects to see what challenges they’re facing and how they can be potentially transformative to local and global economic development.
Utah Inland Port: overhauling logistics networks and piloting new tech
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Utah Inland Port: overhauling logistics networks and piloting new tech

Special Reports02 Sep 2022
Jack Hedge, President of the Utah Inland Port Authority, explains how the dry port has the potential to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the logistics supply chain.
Smart City Expo: think digital, think green, think inclusion
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Smart City Expo: think digital, think green, think inclusion

Special Reports18 Nov 2020
The first day of the online event confirmed that the smart cities sector is well aware of its destination but it’s how it gets there that will be the problem.
Innovative partnership powers Atlanta’s future
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Innovative partnership powers Atlanta’s future

Special Reports16 Sep 2019
A pioneering initiative between Georgia Power, the City of Atlanta and a cohort of partners is showing what’s next in smart cities and demonstrating the power of public-private partnerships.
Funding smart cities: Where’s the money?
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Funding smart cities: Where’s the money?

Special Reports18 Apr 2019
A report by SmartCitiesWorld found that funding is the biggest challenge to implementing a smart city strategy. So how can cities confront this?
Autonomous passenger ferries: Congestion-buster or hype on the high seas?
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Autonomous passenger ferries: Congestion-buster or hype on the high seas?

Special Reports14 Jan 2019
The world’s first autonomous passenger ferry demonstration took place off the coast of Finland last month. Are we set to see such services scale up?
Plotting the route to smarter transportation
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Plotting the route to smarter transportation

Special Reports12 Dec 2018
Smart Cities World’s Road to Liveable Cities event brought together technology and transport experts, as well as start-ups, to discuss and envision the shape of future mobility.
Port of Rotterdam on course for self-driving ships by 2030
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Port of Rotterdam on course for self-driving ships by 2030

Special Reports03 May 2018
Port of Rotterdam wants to be the world’s smartest port with Internet of Things sensors and a data management platform combined with powerful analytics. By 2030, the port authority wants to allow autonomous ships in port to unload and load goods.
Are electric cars the key to a renewable future?
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Are electric cars the key to a renewable future?

Special Reports14 Feb 2018
Electric vehicles hold enormous potential but their deployment so far has fallen short. Jacob Klimstra, senior energy consultant and member of the advisory board for Electrify Europe, looks at how the industry could work to overcome the remaining barriers to a breakthrough
The cyber security threat to transportation
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The cyber security threat to transportation

Special Reports12 Oct 2017
Cisco’s 2017 Midyear Cyber Security Report showed that cyber security threats are escalating and becoming increasingly complex for transportation organisations as they transition to modern and more connected technology infrastructures
Back to the future
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Back to the future

Special Reports12 Jul 2017
How Assetic is helping to close the global infrastructure gap, by Melony Rocque

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ST Engineering to provide smart city platform for Lusail City

The company will build and operate a smart city platform with citywide network connectivity for the Qatar city using advanced AI and data-driven technologies.

Huawei seals smart city deal with Barcelona

They will collaborate on projects relating to 5G, smart city applications and digital transformation.

Solar city goes live

Trina Solar’s PV modules have begun operations in the 10MW Sustainable City in Dubai, which aims to use only clean energy sources

What is ‘Smart City’ and why do we need them?

Smart city is the framework based on Information and Communication technologies that enable the development of sustainable practices to address the urbanisation challenges. Leveraging the technology is one of the foremost pillars of ‘smart cities’ in order to increase efficiencies and improve the quality of resident’s life and the city’s services.

Public technology Portal sculpture unites Dublin and New York

Each sculpture features a 24/7 visual livestream from a Portal in the other city, allowing real-time interaction between Dubliners and New Yorkers and visitors.

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