View original post. An autonomous 10-seater car during a trial on Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard in 2016 We live in remarkable times, when technology offers new hope and potential for the future of the world’s cities and urban communities. Mobility / transport  lies at the heart of this urban transformation and the smart city of Dubai is a shining example. …

The effective management of data is fundamental in the successful construction of the smart city of the future Improving the connectivity within British cities is not just an abstract pursuit driven by an obligation to follow a larger trend of digitisation. Building smarter cities has tangible benefits for residents and businesses alike. By integrating data from organisations across the private, public and …

View original post. Standards Australia has called on the Federal Government to take a lead role in smart city developments – in particular to set standards. It warns that a lack of standards could greatly increase the cost of smart city deployments. Standards Australia is due to appear on 22 March before the House Standing Committee on Infrastructure, Transport and Cities inquiry …

View original post. Would you go to the theater in a taxi without a driver? Would you share your car or would you go to a stranger to go to work every day? The new urban mobility promises to change everything … starting with our way of thinking. For half a century we have used our car privately. If anything, we have occasionally …

View original post. Each new day often brings a new buzzword, so it’s important we fully understand new terms as they quickly become part of our language and used on a daily basis. One such term that has joined some of the big buzzwords like IoT and Big Data is ‘smart city’. But what does a smart city actually look …

View original post. “That’s no easy step—it involves investment in human beings, not just systems,” says the city’s newly-appointed chief digital officer. In his speech at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, London Mayor Sadiq Khan cautioned the world about the perils of the ongoing tech revolution: Social media has helped proliferate fake news, popularized online hate speech, and created ideological …

 View original post. When I first spotted the luminescent white Smart Cities model on the show floor at the recent SAPPHIRE NOW & ASUG Conference, I couldn’t get near enough to take a photo given the crush of experts around it from not only city planning, but also renewable energy providers, chemical companies, manufacturing suppliers and others. Dante Ricci, Public Sector Industry …

Portland, Maine’s push to become a smart city is raising questions for some about how the technology will impact the privacy of citizens and visitors. (TNS) — City Manager Jon Jennings envisions Portland becoming a high-tech city with self-driving buses and streetlights that can collect data on traffic flows, noise and air pollution and send out free wireless Internet to …

View original post. British innovators pitch ideas in Australia to improve future cities across the world. MELBOURNE: CITIES OF THE FUTURE could see public transportation lifted from the ground and up into the air, if Britain’s transport innovators have anything to do with it. The future smart city plans were deliberated as part of discussions hosted by the UK government’s innovation agency InnovateUK …

View original post. Integrating modern technology into both new and aging cities is changing the way citizens go about their daily lives. In a study sponsored by Intel and performed by Juniper Research, estimates show that regular people could save 125 hours annually with the help of smart cities. Back in 2010, Beijing residents underwent the worst traffic jam in history. It took …