Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has appointed the city’s former Chief Information Officer, Jascha Franklin-Hodge to oversee collaboration between the city’s Public Works and Transportation Departments. As Chief of Streets, Franklin-Hodge will be responsible for the implementation of key transport policy goals, including free-fares on MBTA...
Would you give up your car for €1,100 (US$1,280) a year? Tim Lehmann thinks you might. As founder of Berlin-based NGO IUM-Institute for Urban Mobility, Lehmann is behind a proposal to hand people a cash credit to use towards sustainable transport. But there’s a catch...
A transition to electric vehicles (EVs) coupled with an expansion of public transit and the development of “compact cities” will be needed to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions over the next 30 years. This is according to a new report from the Institute for Transportation...
Privately owned e-scooters will be banned on all Transport for London (TfL) services from next week after an exploding battery caused a fire on a busy Tube service. Emergency services had to be called to extinguish a blaze last month after an e-scooter’s lithium battery...
Societal shifts, from increased remote working and e-commerce to electrification and digitalisation, affect not only how cities function but also how they’re funded. A new collaborative initiative is exploring new ways for local governments to raise revenue. Partners in the Rethinking Revenue project include the...
More and better data is part of the solution for making transport systems more inclusive for women and other groups, but it’s time to turn insights into action. This will take fresh imagination, tough conversations and some directed anger, according to experts on a recent...
Las Vegas is one of the latest cities to adopt a digital twin and the collaborative project aims to take what the technology can do to the next level, from real-time management to data monetisation. Through Cityzenith’s Clean Cities – Clean Future initiative, Las Vegas is...
Updated December 6, 2021: The US$8 million grant was approved by the City Council. Boston’s newly elected mayor, Michelle Wu, has requested the City Council allocate US$8 million in federal coronavirus relief funding to eliminate fares on three bus lines over a two-year period. The...
The City of New Orleans has launched a multifunctional city card which will provide access to emergency disbursements, banking for the unbanked, transport, libraries, local discounts and more. The Crescent City Card Program is a partnership between the city, Mastercard, fintech company MoCaFi and Forward...
AI's effectiveness is directly tied to the quality of the data it processes. The principle of "garbage in, garbage out" emphasizes that low-quality data can lead to unreliable AI outcomes. In healthcare, where patient safety and outcomes are at stake, the necessity for pristine data...
