View original post.Driverless cars are to be tested on the streets of London this week as part of a plan to deploy the UK’s first completely autonomous fleet on British roads by Christmas. A Government-backed consortium will deploy cars to map the streets of Hounslow in West London to teach them to understand road signs and lane markings following successful tests in Oxford. The cars will be able to share …

View original post. Autonomous mobility solutions and connected vehicles have already a presence in big cities around the world. Pilot tests have been well underway for a few years now. Car manufacturers such as Tesla, BMW, Volvo, Google, and many others are competing in the race toward Level 5 autonomous driving with Level 4 autonomous cars scheduled to be seen in the …

View original post.85% of the EU’s GDP is generated in cities; and now some 78% of European citizens live in cities. In the transition towards a low carbon, resource efficient and competitive economy, cities have a crucial role to play (and, indeed, are already delivering success in this area). According to the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities …

View original post.The relationship between businesses and smart cities is mutually reinforcing, opening doors to new possibilities only achievable under one harmonious environment. In being better connected to their surroundings, businesses – so often the service providers of smarter cities – will not only understand the landscape in which they operate in better, but also the people that inhabit them, …

View original post.2018 has witnessed a huge set of leaps and developments within the Mobility as a Service (MaaS) industry, including the release of certain platforms and apps that allow users of all backgrounds to travel significantly easier within populated cities using more unorthodox and eco-friendly methods of travel. Yet, without the large amount of investments made into this sector …

View original post.According to a report released in May by UN Habitat titled, ‘The State of African Cities 2018: The geography of African Investment,’ 55 per cent of the world’s population today lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68 per cent by 2050, with 90 per cent of this increase taking place in Asia …

View original post.Researchers at the University of Toronto in Canada have published a new study in which they look at ways that an increased use of self-driving cars could bring huge benefits to the overall design and infrastructure of parking lots. The researchers used a computer simulation to determine the perfect size of a parking lot that was entirely designed …

View original post.Today, parents spend enormous amounts of time and money ferrying their kids to all their activities. Autonomous cars offer us a glimpse into the family life in the near future — one with more time and less stress. After all, what parent wouldn’t love hopping in a self-driving car to bring one of the kids to a Saturday …

View original post. A self-driving car heads into the woods. Credit: Matthew Doude, CC BY-ND Autonomous vehicles can follow the general rules of American roads, recognizing traffic signals and lane markings, noticing crosswalks and other regular features of the streets. But they work only on well-marked roads that are carefully scanned and mapped in advance. Many paved roads, though, have …

View original post.This article is in association with the Ferrovial Services Centre of Excellence for Cities/Amey. Nobody needs a survey or data to tell us that there too many vehicles on the roads – it’s obvious to anyone living in a city that traffic congestion is endemic. What’s less clear is exactly how to fix it. Congestion is a highly …