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Without a public-private partnership, a smart city plan will most likely remain stuck on the drawing board.
In addition to the cities themselves, research institutions, civic organizations and the private sector are vital components to incorporating best practices and an aligned approach. Cities across Texas have seen early success in these endeavors.
Interest is growing in approaches that look for redundancies to overcome infrastructure's risks and vulnerabilities.
Transportation is a rapidly evolving industry. The worst-case scenario is allocating millions to a resource that quickly becomes obsolete. Federal agencies play a vital role in helping cities hit the moving target.
The grid has been vulnerable physically for decades, but we're just beginning to understand the seriousness of an emerging threat to the its cybersecurity.
Governments have hundreds of thousands of data sets available for public use, but much of that information can be difficult to comprehend or visualize.
Sales are lagging in the proving ground of California. But maybe it's too early to be keeping score.
With a new online marketplace, Copenhagen is trying to enable an 'access economy'
They would be mostly -- but not all -- good for state and local revenues.
The new year has already seen crucial developments that suggest a future filled with driverless cars that are both safer than today’s vehicles and radically different in appearance and comfort.
If everyone did it, the carbon savings would be huge and there’d probably be far less congestion.
Networked alternatives for getting around are about to redefine our cities as much as the horseless carriage did a century ago.
Autonomous vehicles are coming, and fast. We need to look at new models for shared ownership.
With advances in technology that are already in place, including the proliferation of Internet of Things technology and devices, any city or town can be smart and reap the benefits.
These four challenges call on the public and private sectors to innovate together.
The EPA’s Energy Star program has added the capability to track waste and material use with the same ease of tracking energy and water use.
In 2017, we’ll have to decide whether we can trust autonomous technology. That’s going to be much harder than we might expect.
We've just begun to tap the potential. What does 2017 have in store?
Our new world of robots, artificial intelligence and self-driving cars, is creating new jobs and requiring the current workforce to adjust its roles and acquire new skills to make a living in a science-fictional universe.
The auto industry’s present is starting to sound a lot like science fiction, thanks to technologies with names like V2X communications, smart infrastructure and e-axles.
