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

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We assess the current trends in air quality monitoring and improvement, identifying projects, policies and technologies that are aiding cities in creating more liveable and breathable urban environments.

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OnDemand Panel Debate: Paving the way towards sustainability with proactive strategies & intelligent transport system

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This SmartCitiesWorld panel discussion is now available OnDemand and brings cities together for bilateral learnings on the challenges and potential solutions to sustainability by utilising intelligent transport systems (ITS). The CSO of the City of Vilnius - European Green Capital 2025 are among the speakers.

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Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 19 - The intersection between risk, resilience and insurance

Urban Exchange Podcast

The Urban Exchange welcomes Miami-Dade County’s Galen Treuer and Howden’s Peter Adams to explore the challenges facing residents and insurers in the face of climate events.

Latest Urban Exchange Podcast

Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 19 - The intersection between risk, resilience and insurance

Urban Exchange Podcast

The Urban Exchange welcomes Miami-Dade County’s Galen Treuer and Howden’s Peter Adams to explore the challenges facing residents and insurers in the face of climate events.

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Our editorial newsletter pulls together our latest news items into one email, direct to your inbox. We also feature our latest city interviews, Special Reports and Guest Opinions.

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We ask cities and industry experts from around the world to give us their opinion on smart city technology and challenges.

Anni Sinnemäki: Deputy Mayor For The Urban Environment, Helsinki

Helsinki’s journey to becoming a 15-minute city

Policymaking06 Jul 2022by Anni Sinnemäki: Deputy Mayor For The Urban Environment, Helsinki

Anni Sinnemäki, Helsinki’s deputy mayor for the urban environment, provides expert insight into the Finnish city’s journey towards a more sustainable and seamless transport system.

Andy Taylor: Directory of Strategy, Cubic Transportation Systems

Driving the MaaS conversation forward as the future of transport

Opinions19 Feb 2020by Andy Taylor: Directory of Strategy, Cubic Transportation Systems

Mobility-as-a-service will only be successful if we can all come together to realise a joint vision of ensuring seamless travel for every commuter, says Andy Taylor, Director of Strategy, Cubic Transportation Systems.

Toby Olshanetsky: co-founder and CEO of prooV

Less is more: Why smart technology is thriving in the suburbs

Opinions24 Jan 2020by Toby Olshanetsky: co-founder and CEO of prooV

Fast-growing neighbourhoods are the perfect testing ground for the latest connected technologies. Toby Olshanetsky, co-founder and CEO of prooV, highlights a "quiet" technological revolution.

Smart city trend tracker: The top stories on SmartCitiesWorld in 2019

Special Reports20 Dec 2019by Sarah Wray: Editor, SmartCitiesWorld

We round up our main takeaways from smart city developments in 2019. We’d love to hear yours.

Darren Watkins: Managing Director, VIRTUS Data Centres

Building the IT backbone for public sector digital transformation

Opinions16 Sep 2019by Darren Watkins: Managing Director, VIRTUS Data Centres

If they want large-scale digital transformation to succeed, public sector organisations must look at their infrastructure, says Darren Watkins, VIRTUS Data Centres.

Kary Främling: Professor of computer science at Aalto University, Finland and chair of the IoT Work Group, The Open Group

Why open standards are fundamental to deploying data for smart city services

Opinions07 Aug 2019by Kary Främling: Professor of computer science at Aalto University, Finland and chair of the IoT Work Group, The Open Group

Smart cities won’t meet their goal of improving citizens’ quality of life unless they’re built in an open and standardised way, says Kary Främling.

MaaS: A world without traffic jams?

Opinions13 Mar 2019by Sarah Wray: Editor, SmartCitiesWorld

moovel’s vision is “a world without traffic jams”. Thomas Friderich shares his insights on how MaaS can help to make this a reality.

Future transport: From MaaS to the Internet of Mobility

Opinions15 Nov 2018by Boyd Cohen: CEO, Iomob

Iomob CEO, Boyd Cohen, explores the new models required to enable fair and more effective city mobility.

Dr Michelle Supper Forum Director of the Open Platform 3.0 Forum at The Open Group

Why open standards are the key to truly smart cities

Opinions29 Oct 2018by Dr Michelle Supper Forum Director of the Open Platform 3.0 Forum at The Open Group

Smart cities require information to flow freely between systems and cities. This will only happen when multiple vendors adopt open standards, says Dr Michelle Supper, The Open Group.

Jasper Dekker: Senior Interaction Designer, Smart Design,

How design can pave the road towards a new personal mobility

Opinions05 Oct 2018by Jasper Dekker: Senior Interaction Designer, Smart Design,

Smart Design’s Jasper Dekker plots a route to mobility as a service (MaaS).

Oliver Heidrich, Newcastle University & Diana Reckien, University of Twente

We examined 885 European cities’ plans to tackle climate change – here’s what we found

Opinions04 May 2018by Oliver Heidrich, Newcastle University & Diana Reckien, University of Twente

Oliver Heidrich, Senior Researcher in Urban Resource Modelling, Newcastle University, and Diana Reckien, Associate Professor for Climate Change and Urban Inequalities, University of Twente, share their latest research on what cities are doing to tackle climate change and the urgency of the work still to be done.

Ben Foulser, associate director, Infrastructure Advisory Practice, KPMG

The reality of MaaS has arrived, by Ben Foulser, associate director, Infrastructure Advisory Practice, KPMG

Opinions25 Aug 2017by Ben Foulser, associate director, Infrastructure Advisory Practice, KPMG

Mobility-as-a-Service enhances the user experienced and can achieve key policy objectives such as economic growth and transport network resilience

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Manchester launches People’s Panel for AI

The panel aims to provide residents with access to education and training on AI, enabling local communities to influence the development of AI initiatives.

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.

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