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Stockholm takes top prize at Global Smart City awards
22 November 2019 | By
The Global Smart City awards are presented every year to the most outstanding initiatives and projects in the urban innovation and transformation industry.
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UK Department for Transport to operate as a ‘cloud-first organisation’ by 2020
The migration of DfT’s applications to the cloud, which has been called the ‘DfT Data Centre Transformation’, took place during the last quarter of 2018 and the first phases were completed by mid-2019.
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AI autonomous mobility start-up raises $20 million for London trials
20 November 2019 | By
Wayve believes that the complexity of self-driving cars will be solved by better artificial intelligence 'brains' rather than more physical sensors and hand-coded rules.
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City snapshot: Mobility-as-a-Service in Madrid
The Madrid public transport operator, EMT, is developing the MaaS platform ‘MaaS Madrid’ which will offer mobility services to citizens in one unified application. Here, Enrique Diego Bernardo, Chief Technology Officer of EMT, explains how, for the first time, a city, administrative or public entity is leading such an initiative.
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UK project to ‘revolutionise road networks with smart infrastructure’
A new Live Labs project will test technological advances encompassing wireless communication sensors, smart materials, and energy generation and storage, to create roads that generate electricity from passing traffic.
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Go-Ahead opens applications for latest transport proof of concept lab programme
UK transport start-ups and SMEs have been invited to collaborate with The Go-Ahead Group for the latest programme of its innovation lab to help small businesses grow and develop their solutions for passengers.
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Virgin Hyperloop One and KAUST partner to develop Saudi Arabia’s transportation sector
A Memorandum of Understanding between Virgin Hyperloop One and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia represents a commitment to fostering the exchange of scientific and technological knowledge.
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Dubai launches first World Council on City Data Local Data Hub
Dubai has launched the first global network of World Council on City Data (WCCD) Local Data Hub, with the aim of achieving the UN's sustainable objectives on its 2030 agenda, as well as strengthening the role of the cities and communities.
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What’s on the modern mobility sector’s agenda today?
Delegates at the Intelligent Transport Conference 2019 took part in five roundtable discussions on a variety of themes, from the transport workforce to making MaaS work – here are the key discussion points from each one.
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O2 plans 5G rollout for CAVs in London’s Smart Mobility Living Lab
The high capacity of 5G will allow vehicles to transmit large amounts of data, including 4K video, to intelligent cloud-based transport systems, which are expected to improve road safety and help traffic authorities to monitor and manage traffic flow.
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ViaVan and Shell launch EV shared ride project in Amsterdam
ViaVan and Shell aim to demonstrate that high-capacity electric fleets can improve performance when routing to available chargers is intelligently optimised.
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South Korea to offer autonomous bus services by 2022
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in South Korea has said it will begin testing autonomous buses in South Korea's administrative hub of Sejong - or 'Sejong Special Autonomous City' - in late 2019.
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Vietnam commits to sustainable transport
The Vietnam Ministry of Transport has said it will continue activities to enhance environmentally-sustainable transport in order to meet the sustainable development goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.
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Mobility-as-a-Service: roaming throughout Europe
Launched in 2017, The IMOVE project comes to an end late 2019. Testing the feasibility of implementing Mobility-as-a-Service on a European scale, Marco Boero, IMOVE Project Coordinator, explains some of the key progressions that the consortium has seen.
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Beijing subway to use facial recognition for security checks
The facial recognition system will divide passengers into groups in order to better understand and manage passenger flow of the Beijing subway system, helping staff to better prioritise security checks.