To Combat Potholes, Cities Turn to Technology
Apps allow residents to tell city agencies about potholes, while officials deploy new analytical tools to keep track of trends and try to predict where craters could appear.
Best American Cities 2018: Where Does Your City Rank?
Cities are ranked on 28 factors sorted into six categories, including housing affordability, infrastructure, online search results and social media attention.
Autonomous Vehicles Must Put People First
COMMENTARY | The mayor of Rochester Hills, Michigan, on why mayors are looking to shape the future of AVs.
Laying the groundwork for 5G
Efforts by Congress, local governments and industry are converging to deploy the 5G technology that will power smart cities.
Connected cars can lie, posing a new threat to smart cities
Intelligent Traffic Signal Systems assume the data they receive is legitimate. That’s not a safe assumption.
Kansas City seeks partner for smart city expansion
Kansas City, Mo., is looking to team up with a vendor for its second phase of smart city initiatives.
Facebook Will Offer Platforms Teaching Tech Skills in Cities
“When people get the opportunity to get the training they need, they can get great jobs,” said COO Sheryl Sandberg.
Mayors are touting tech, open data
The nation's mayors see technology as key to increasing transparency, efficiency and economic development, according to a new report from the National League of Cities.
A closer look at the Smart Columbus Operating System
The platform will house a data repository and tools for powering applications from that data.
Self-Driving Vehicle Backers Push for ‘Federal Framework’
“If there is no action on this legislation, the result will be delayed testing and deployment in the United States of these life-saving technologies,” said Audi of America’s senior policy strategist.
Columbus unveils 'initial' smart city operating system
The Smart Columbus Operating System features an open data platform that brings together more than 1,000 mobility-related datasets.
Solving DC's gridlock with smarter cars, intelligent traffic signals
A data-sharing partnership has the potential to help the nation’s capital ease its notorious traffic congestion.
Preparing Governors for the Next Tech Disruption
The National Governors Association seizes an opportunity to prepare its members to for crucial technology policy decisions.
Electric Scooters Come to Charlotte
Charlotte is the third city on the East Coast to get electric scooters, following Washington, D.C. in March and Miami in April.
Houston Region Tests Driverless Shuttles on College Kids
The small shuttles, called “university circulators,” will be limited to a mile-long campus pathway at Texas Southern University and will run at average speeds ranging from 8 to 12 miles per hour.
Smart planning delivers powerful benefits for cities and citizens
Smart planning takes advantage of the best available data and technology to coordinate and optimize every area of responsibility a city touches.
Wringing Out New Truths From Data: Tracking Social Progress in Cities
Urban designers are ready to help cities learn from each other, combing through data both old and new.
Pittsburgh Airport Partnership Will Create Testing Ground for New Technology
Artificial intelligence could soon make its way into the aviation space through a collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University.
In Houston, a Focus on Innovation to 'Build Back Better'
Hurricane Harvey focused the city's efforts to use technology, citizen engagement and lessons from around the world to steer its disaster response and address long-term needs.
Mitigating Traffic at Intersections With AI and Video Detection
The city of Maricopa, Arizona doesn’t have a traffic engineer, and now it doesn’t need one.
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