OnDemand Panel Debate: Clearing the air: strategies for enhancing urban air quality

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OnDemand Panel Debate (11 Dec): Going behind the scenes of Dallas’ smart city initiatives

SmartCitiesWorld gets up close and personal with the City of Dallas and its innovative smart city strategies. Panellist from City of Dallas, National League of Cities and Ubicquia. Watch OnDemand

Cities Climate Action Summit 2024: going green in the built environment

The SmartCitiesWorld Summit, which takes place 26-27 June, will act as a call to action for cities to make the transformation of the built environment a central part of their climate action strategies.

Green, active and integrated: mobility in focus at Cities Climate Action Summit

From accelerating electric vehicle infrastructure to promoting active and shared modes of transport, the Cities Climate Action Summit (26-27 June) strives to unlock sustainable mobility solutions for a cleaner, healthier future.

Smart Cities Reports

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile 2024 – City of Madrid

Discover how the city of Madrid is innovating to become a smarter, more sustainable city that’s able to deliver improved services to residents and visitors alike.

SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Shenzhen

SmartCitiesWorld City Profiles explore the city of Shenzhen, designated as China’s first special economic zone and a role model of urban modernisation. Find out more about Shenzhen’s smart city strategy in this 16-page report.

Podcasts

Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 12 – Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara and Visa – Innovation in the urban mobility sector

The Urban Exchange brings together the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara’s Diego Marquez and Visa’s Jose Rodriguez to talk through the transformative role of urban mobility policy and technology in the Mexican city.

Podcast: in conversation with Marc Hannis, Principal, Innovation Fund, Ofwat

Marc Hannis is the latest guest on the SmartCitiesWorld podcast, talking about the need for more innovation and collaboration in the water sector.

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Cities Climate Action Summit 2024 – meet the exhibitor: AppyWay

AppyWay will show cities why they need to adopt dynamic and data-driven kerbside management systems to optimise the use of kerb space and reduce congestion.

No more pedalling the cycle lane myth: for a less congested London, we need fewer cars

Lime’s Alan Clarke explains how the UK capital can move away from private vehicles towards a lifestyle where city-dwellers can move seamlessly between different modes of public transport.

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SmartCitiesWorld City Profile 2024 – City of Madrid

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Trend Report 2025: Enabling connectivity in cities to improve urban life

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Discover how ubiquitous connectivity is transforming urban living by enhancing efficiency, producing more liveable spaces and making cities smarter.

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Webinar: Futureproofing smart cities - navigating interoperability and open standards

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Join our next webinar with Paradox Engineering to learn how to navigate the world of open standards for cities that are interoperable and futureproof.

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Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 25 - Understanding AI-powered water resilience

Urban Exchange Podcast

Discover how AI, combined with forward-thinking planning, assessment and regulation, can support cities in getting their water resilience strategy right in the latest Urban Exchange with the Mayor of Broward County, Florida.

Latest Urban Exchange Podcast

Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 25 - Understanding AI-powered water resilience

Urban Exchange Podcast

Discover how AI, combined with forward-thinking planning, assessment and regulation, can support cities in getting their water resilience strategy right in the latest Urban Exchange with the Mayor of Broward County, Florida.

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AI and Machine Learning

The latest news on AI and Machine Learning for smart city projects across the world

Companies team to use AI to enhance mobility applications

Companies team to use AI to enhance mobility applications

AI and Machine Learning07 Mar 2025

Agreement between Eysa and Palantir follows a bootcamp which evaluated feasibility of use cases related to parking, sustainable mobility and urban services.

Barcelona pilots automated bus lane enforcement technology

Barcelona pilots automated bus lane enforcement technology

AI and Machine Learning05 Mar 2025

The pilot results from a challenge launched by Barcelona City Council in collaboration with Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona and Fira de Barcelona.

Public transportation: the challenges and priorities

Public transportation: the challenges and priorities

Road travel27 Feb 2025

The 2025 State of Public Transportation Report reveals driver safety, recruitment and retention is the top priority while the adoption of AI technologies is slow.

Albania partners for nationwide AI-powered smart city project

Albania partners for nationwide AI-powered smart city project

AI and Machine Learning26 Feb 2025

The project will be rolled out across 20 cities to enhance Albania’s sustainability and digital transformation agenda as well as improve public services.

Riga installs traffic monitoring solutions at 26 locations

Riga installs traffic monitoring solutions at 26 locations

AI and Machine Learning24 Feb 2025

The systems, which combine high-resolution cameras with machine vision and edge computing, are installed at high-traffic intersections in the Latvian capital.

Innovation centre partnership to apply AI in mass transit

Innovation centre partnership to apply AI in mass transit

AI and Machine Learning13 Feb 2025

Cubic’s multi-million-pound investment aims to address transportation’s most critical challenges in collaboration with experts from Imperial College London.

Toronto to deploy AI-powered video enforcement on streetcars

Toronto to deploy AI-powered video enforcement on streetcars

AI and Machine Learning10 Feb 2025

Artificial intelligence-assisted video analytics and automated ticketing solution to be deployed for the third largest public transit system in North America.

Peachtree Corners pilots pedestrian safety technology

Peachtree Corners pilots pedestrian safety technology

Road travel06 Feb 2025

Launched outside of Pinckneyville Middle School in the city, the pilot uses artificial intelligence to address the safety challenges of busy crosswalks.

AI used to detect near misses across UK’s West Midlands

AI used to detect near misses across UK’s West Midlands

AI and Machine Learning06 Feb 2025

Sensors have been upgraded with the Smart Road Safety and Near Miss tech from VivaCity, which uses object speed and path data to estimate collision risks.

New York seeks to become artificial intelligence powerhouse

New York seeks to become artificial intelligence powerhouse

AI and Machine Learning03 Feb 2025

NYCEDC releases $3m request for proposal seeking operator to establish NYC AI Nexus to catalyse and accelerate AI innovation and adoption across City’s economy.

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What is ‘Smart City’ and why do we need them?

Smart city is the framework based on Information and Communication technologies that enable the development of sustainable practices to address the urbanisation challenges. Leveraging the technology is one of the foremost pillars of ‘smart cities’ in order to increase efficiencies and improve the quality of resident’s life and the city’s services.

AI used to monitor and optimise Swedish road infrastructure

Computer vision and machine learning specialist, Univrses, will work with the Swedish Transport Administration to digitise and manage roadside infrastructure.

Solar city goes live

Trina Solar’s PV modules have begun operations in the 10MW Sustainable City in Dubai, which aims to use only clean energy sources

ST Engineering to provide smart city platform for Lusail City

The company will build and operate a smart city platform with citywide network connectivity for the Qatar city using advanced AI and data-driven technologies.

Are you going to Smart City Expo, Barcelona in Nov 2024?

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Digital Bangkok 2: How next-gen urban development is driving new growth opportunitiesSponsored by Huawei

Fan Yanjun, senior vice president, Enterprise Business Group, Huawei Technologies (Thailand), explains how taking a ...

Digital Bangkok: building a city of intelligence that puts people firstSponsored by Huawei

Kevin Cheng, president enterprise business group, Huawei Technologies (Thailand), details how technology is aiding B...

New technology to power the future of customs and smart ports Sponsored by Huawei

Libby Plummer explores how next-generation technology is already improving operations and efficiency in customs ...

Smart infrastructure is the key to Vision Zero

Legislation is a good first step to reducing fatalities, says Georges Aoude, CEO, Derq, but it will not work without ...

City of Ottawa: Driving the future of mobility and smart citiesSponsored by Accenture

We hear from Sonya Shorey at Invest Ottawa as she discusses the innovation, its impact on the community and global ...

Advancing adoption of digital twin technologySponsored by FIWARE

Albert H Seubers, Global Strategy Director Smart X, Atos, and Val De Oliveira, FIWARE Foundation explore how cities can ...

Watch: Cloudera and IBM Storage discuss how cities can unlock the true value of their dataSponsored by Cloudera & IBM

SCW talks to Cloudera and IBM Storage on the power of big data and machine learning

The future of smart city technologySponsored by Huawei

Imagination and vision is required to enable successful digital transformation in our cities, writes Huawei’s Nadim A...

Without smart transport networks, smart cities’ potential will not be realisedSponsored by Huawei

Cities need to implement intelligent road management solutions in order to support citizens and businesses, writes Hong-...

New energy, changing behaviour and blockchain: 5 transport predictions for 2020

Rabih Arzouni, Fujitsu UK’s CTO of transport, shares his transport predictions for the year ahead.

Special Reports

How IoT can enable sustainable choices in cities

How IoT can enable sustainable choices in citiesSponsored by Thinkz

Urban Exchange Episode 4: Francis Suarez, Mayor of Miami

Urban Exchange Episode 4: Francis Suarez, Mayor of Miami

Podcast: Enhancing city operations through 5G, AI and data management

Podcast: Enhancing city operations through 5G, AI and data management

City Profiles

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SmartCitiesWorld City Profile 2024 – City of Madrid

Discover how the city of Madrid is innovating to become a smarter, more sustainable city that’s able to deliver improved services to residents and visitors alike.

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SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – San Diego

Delve into this City Profile which focuses on how the City of San Diego is innovating through policy and technology to best serve its communities. Find out how it splits the city’s challenges and matches them to solutions that demonstrate exactly how technology, policy and investment come together to overcome both every-day and long-term issues.

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SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Dallas

Discover how the City of Dallas is pushing ahead with its smart city efforts with the latest new-look City Profile from SmartCitiesWorld.

White Papers

White Paper: A blueprint for using AI to create smarter cities

White Paper: A blueprint for using AI to create smarter cities

This white paper maps the end-to-end journey from data discovery to implementing complex AI models that can provide customised insight. It puts forward a blueprint for cities to use artificial intelligence to become smarter and more liveable by taking an outcomes-focused approach.

White Paper: Building truly sustainable cities

White Paper: Building truly sustainable cities

This white paper covers how connected systems can help cities build sustainability and wellbeing into their indoor and outdoor spaces. We look at the scale of the decarbonisation challenge faced by cities, how cities can use connected technologies to create greener buildings and the vital role of retrofitting. We includes detailed analysis of the energy and cost-savings that energy efficiency programmes can bring in cities.

City data spaces: A guide to building and operationalising data services

City data spaces: A guide to building and operationalising data services

How data spaces are transforming data sharing, and establishing new frameworks to create data services to improve urban services and liveability.