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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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Security robots, blockchain and other new services are looking for ways to serve government needs.
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Microsoft wanted to know if the ocean can effectively serve as a cooling system for data centers, referred to as cloud servers, that transmit video streams, social networking, email and other digital communications.
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Consumers and government are fueling demand for vehicles that can self-park, assist with safe driving and integrate more closely with smartphones.
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Devices to retrofit cars with new safety features could help fleet managers better track their vehicles.
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The route to economic growth starts by making our cities more productive — the bigger, the denser, the better.
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The legislation would allow utilities to set rates based on what they spent in the prior year, a change proponents argue will help update decades-old infrastructure.
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Upon taking office, Mayor Xavier Trias formed a new team called Smart City Barcelona, which is tasked with integrating existing projects and identifying new opportunities to enhance services for all of the city’s people and businesses.
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Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have announced a method for accurately tracking an object's location within a centimeter using GPS.
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The city has created a path for other municipalities, making it easier than ever for them to share information with the public and each other.
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A new state website details not just the effects of climate change, but also how people can help.
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Worries over safety and privacy have led some states to allow consumers to refuse smart meters, which are designed as more accurate and potentially energy-saving devices.
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Just a few blocks away, your neighbors may be expected to live 20 years longer.
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Urban Engines recently announced partnerships with several organizations, including the agency that runs trains in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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After building several prototype transceivers at the spaceport last summer, Google is testing them with multiple drones in an experiment with delivering 5G wireless Internet access.
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In updating its 2030 plan, the county is looking at all forms of transportation — roads, bus, rail, bicycle, trucks and pedestrian — and will identify priorities as it finalizes the plan over the next few months.
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Mayor Eric Garcetti met with the press Friday to announce the launch of GeoHub, which he described as one of the most complete municipal open mapping platforms in the country.
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Most newer vehicles have such boxes, capable of tracking things like a vehicle’s speed, whether the driver brakes or accelerates and whether they're wearing a seat belt.
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An obscure Supreme Court ruling paves the way for people and businesses to earn money with distributed energy technologies.
