FutureStructure Data
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Staffing shortages and the lasting shifts to commuter patterns has pumped the brakes on the recovery of transit ridership. Even as gas prices reach record highs across the country, ridership hasn’t seen a large uptick. -
Each winning city will receive an individualized Readiness Workshop and host of tech tools to help further its efforts toward becoming a smart city.
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Two projects in Georgia and New York are exploring new technologies which embed power generation, computing and more into paving, opening up this right-of-way space to accommodate solar panels and smart city sensors.
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Coastal Risk Consulting provides actionable intelligence about flood risks to homeowners, businesses and governments worldwide, and makes it fast, accurate and affordable.
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The database includes test results collected from nearly 50,000 public water systems in all 50 states.
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Understanding the potential of using data to tackle city priorities like infrastructure but lacking the internal capacity and budget to develop a robust data program, the city began looking for help from outside the public sector.
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A new survey from Northeastern University-Silicon Valley highlights issues public agencies may face as they contemplate Internet of Things initiatives.
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An interactive website, unveiled in July, allows users to compare maps of cities side by side using a variety of different metrics.
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The monitoring programs are part of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Smart City Air Challenge — a 2016 competitive grant program that made $40,000 available to each community.
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Thanks to computers, we can generate large volumes of data in support of any given future we wish to promote. Some of this guesswork is harmless, but some of it can lead us to questionable public policy choices.
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Smart Cities Guru founder Anil Ahuja has compiled a list of the top U.S. cities — from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles — that have found a way to combine technology and nature.
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Public works and IT officials use traffic and other data to predict where the next pothole will form — allowing it to repair or resurface 35 to 45 miles of streets per year versus the previous 20 to 25 miles.
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Art that uses data as a subject has a different goal than data visualization, which seeks to display data in a more digestible format to facilitate easier analysis.
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Third annual Gigabit City Summit is set to attract some 300 to 350 attendees ranging from public-sector CIOs, to entrepreneurs, to tech professionals in the private sector.
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Apple is reportedly working on self-driving car software as well.
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All around lie gizmos that never stop collecting bits of information -- bits that become bytes piling into mountains of data that could, in the city of the near future, ultimately make urban life better at a lower cost to taxpayers.
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Kate Garman will move from Kansas City, Mo., to the Emerald City to help coordinate smart tech projects across city departments and forge partnerships to improve the quality of life for residents.
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Lyft has no plans to manufacture its own robot cars. Instead, it wants to create a self-driving system it can partner with the auto industry to bring to life.
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Two solutions using data analytics and artificial intelligence may serve as a model for how cities across the country can take better care of their streets.
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A small San Francisco startup says it has a cheap, quick way to create high-resolution, detailed maps of millions of miles of roads: computer-vision software that can generate highly accurate maps from crowdsourced dashcam video.
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The technology has both governmental and commercial uses — everything from documenting cracks in bridge piers to search and rescue operations.
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