Smart Cities

Global City Teams Challenge participants will focus on smart city solutions to common urban issues, with a strong eye toward developing comprehensive security systems to safeguard those projects.

Five North American cities will be selected as Challenge Grant recipients by the Smart Cities Council, making them eligible for mentoring, products and services.

The Smart and Secure Cities and Communities Challenge will focus on "designed-in cybersecurity" for smart city systems, ultimately providing more secure and resilient protection of citizen privacy.

Even though Denver and Austin came up just short in the federal technology competition, both are moving forward with their ideas.

Although the city didn’t win the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Smart City Challenge, CIO Scott Cardenas says Denver is committed to moving ahead with its plan.

It's likely that other cities will gain a lot from the experiences of the winner of the Smart City Challenge.

Systems connected: Transportation, energy, economic development, health care, inter-city collaboration

The Ohio capital beat out 77 other cities, including techie San Francisco, with its plans to use technology to solve transportation problems.

Columbus, Ohio, has won the Smart City Challenge, but the other cities who made it to the final round will get some help implementing their plans too.

The city will get more than $100 million in government and private-sector money to implement high-tech, futuristic transportation ideas.

The telecommunications giant is one of many tech firms to offer its services to the winner of the competition.

Businesses in central Ohio would pitch in another $90 million if the city won the Smart City Challenge.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx spoke to a crowd saying he doesn't know if the Midwestern city will win the grant, but lauded the progress it's already made.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has announced seven finalists for its Smart City Challenge, which comes with a $50 million prize.

Though the U.S. Department of Transportation isn't releasing details of any of the 77 applications it's received for its Smart City Challenge until March 12, city officials have divulged pieces of their plans to local media outlets across the country.

Cities large and small from across the country have submitted applications for the $50 million contest.

Mobileye has become the second private company to add perks to the ultimate prize the U.S. Department of Transportation plans to award to the winner of its "Smart City Challenge."

The U.S. Department of Transportation is offering $40 million in funding for data-driven transportation projects.