View original post.Smart cities using data captured by the Internet of Things (IoT) devices and processed with artificial intelligence (AI) are all the rage today among cities.  Promoters tout the benefits these data-driven utopias, but as an urban planner, I tend to be sceptical of marketing hype. In the past, urban innovations painted visions that masked their real intentions and …

View original post.This post is in association with moovel moovel’s vision is “a world without traffic jams”. Its solutions and apps are helping to simplify urban mobility and encourage people to switch to shared modes of transport in cities including Stuttgart, Los Angeles and Karlsruhe. Leon Rizzi, Chief Sales Officer, moovel, shares his insights on Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS). SCW: Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) …

View original post.As an industry on the brink of making technological innovations in 2019, many companies are emerging that have the potential to push Mobility into a new era of dominance in travel on a worldwide scale. Companies from all over the world are spearheading the movement towards a MaaS integrated future and many, in the future could work alongside …

View original post. Despite the fact that autonomous vehicles are still in their prototyping phase, 2018 saw a long string of autonomous vehicle-related advancements, new sensing technologies, and even scandals. Here’s a look back at last year and a hint of what may be coming in 2019 for self-driving cars. 2018 had many major news stories on autonomous vehicles. What …

View original post. Sikhumbuzo Ngcobo, Deloitte. A city can be considered smart when three conditions are met: investments are being made in human and social capital; money is being spent to improve traditional infrastructure; and, finally, disruptive technologies are implemented to fuel sustainable economic growth and promote a high quality of life. All of this must be accompanied by the …

View original post.A tech-led mobility revolution is about to overtake the planet, changing everything we think we know about personal transportation. Craig Thomas assesses how business can take advantage of the Mobility as a Service concept. Autonomous cars stand to transform private and business travel. Technology has transformed society so radically in the last couple of decades, we’re now living …

View original post.As we usher in a new year, the trends that shaped cities in 2018 are bound to have a ripple effect on the innovations that bloom in 2019.  Now that dockless vehicles are a common offering in most metropolitan areas across the U.S., what new transportation options will shake the industry? Who will win the 5G race? Will …

View original post.The country on the cutting edge of facial recognition technology and the amazing ways it can be put to use is definitely China. While the Chinese government and many of the country’s current systems, large population (more than 1.3 billion citizens) and centralized identity data bases might make adopting facial recognition technology easier than in Europe or the …

View original post.In 2017, the World Bank reported that 54% of the entire global population is in cities. To put that into perspective, that is a little over 4 billion people. Even more interesting is the fact that the United Nations reports that there are a total of 1.3 million people moving into cities every week, with the urban populations …

View original post.Despite the relative maturity of the concept of smart cities—a term for which definitions have existed for around ten years—new research has revealed that only 23% of the UK consumers surveyed had heard of the term ‘smart city’. Our “Smart in the City” research report surveyed more than 5,500 consumers about their opinion on smart cities and their …