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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The initiative provides technical assistance and resources to help cities identify challenges and opportunities for closing the gap between their desire to use data and actual ability to do so.
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Thinking of going solar? Prices are approaching the cost of grid electricity, but only in some places — so far.
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The city has put in the first two of its planned network of 25 kiosks meant to help connect people to what's going on around them.
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Blood-testing data also have guided government responses to lead contamination in Flint, Mich., where the state is using maps of children’s blood lead levels to target neighborhoods hardest hit by the city’s lead-contaminated drinking water.
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Researchers have proposed drawing a parallel between the expected influx of UAS and birds flying in airspace in order to estimate how often collisions could happen.
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Digital technology using GIS can help humans consciously create a future that may help resolve some of the globe’s most vexing issues, says Jack Dangermond.
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Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs will use the Smart City Challenge as a means to test out new products like a transportation analytics platform and Wi-Fi hotspots.
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The city is at the forefront of the emerging concept of mobility management.
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Smaller companies don’t have technical resources to process big data, so they turn to Urban Engines for help. The company lets transit agencies and companies plug in whatever data they have and see what they can do with it.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation has announced seven finalists for its Smart City Challenge, which comes with a $50 million prize.
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Seattle will likely be the first city in the U.S. outside of Chicago to participate in the project, which involves deploying a network of sensors around urban environments.
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While participating in a program designed to replace California's gasoline tax, drivers might get access to vehicle data usually offered to fleet managers.
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The network has released details of several technology- and data-focused projects bubbling up through partnerships between cities and universities across the country. Here's a look at seven of them.
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By predicting how much power each building in Boston will need during any given hour, the city hopes to transform its electrical grid.
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The White House has partnered with agencies, tech companies and others to launch the "Opportunity Project" initiative, complete with an open data site that assists citizens with 12 new apps for jobs, housing and more.
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In 2011, Oklahoma started experiencing a startling increase in earthquakes linked to hydraulic fracturing for oil -- and the number of strong quakes also is increasing.
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A bill from a bipartisan group of senators would charge the Federal Communications Commission with the task of encouraging growth in the Internet of Things field.
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The state is implementing license plate readers as a way to cut car registration sticker costs, but may have the latent benefit of making local police departments smarter.
