The advanced vehicle tech grants to Arizona, Texas and Utah are intended to yield results that serve as national models and help to save lives on US roadways.
At the heart of the partnership is a commitment to advance research that helps deliver a just energy transition, with a particular emphasis on hydrogen.
The private public partnership aims to develop a vertiport infrastructure at Sugar Land airport and bring advanced air mobility to the Greater Houston region.
The electric vehicle purchases are driven by the Houston Climate Action Plan, which aims to reduce GHG emissions and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
Guidebook advises US mayors and city staff on the opportunities for local governments, organisations, and businesses to implement the Inflation Reduction Act and address climate change.
C40 is inviting creative multidisciplinary teams – including architects, developers, community groups and more – to compete to design and develop climate-friendly urban projects.
The Ion innovation centre and forthcoming Ion District urban community have joined the Global Network of Innovation Districts, established to provide governments and investors with new insights as they re-energise cities.
Texan city will use Rubicon’s smart city technology to help improve residential waste and recycling services and increase efficiency of municipal fleet operations.
The Resilient Now initiative will develop a regional master energy plan for the greater Houston area that is designed to optimise infrastructure investments and advance new energy solutions.
Each kiosk serves as a free wifi hotspot and is geo-located, displaying informational listings based on what’s in the immediate proximity to the touchscreen kiosk.
Analysis shows how cities can capitalise on recovery stimulus funding to boost their economy and address climate change to build more resilient, sustainable, and liveable communities.
The mayor’s office is working on two programmes that seek to futureproof the US city by using green infrastructure and green stormwater infrastructure to build resilience.
The win was attributed to strong technology application, digital capability and pandemic performance and, for the first time in 14 years, more than half of the top 100 cities were from the US.
The New Zealand city ranks top in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Liveability index which explores the impact of the pandemic and assesses cities in five areas.
The opening comes a year after the City of Houston released its first-ever climate action plan with the Greentown Houston incubator playing a key part in the city’s energy transition.
By confirming their undertaking, the mayors of Bogotá and Rio de Janeiro come together with a coalition of 35 other city mayors that aim to ensure clean air for some 150 million people.
The partnership aims to help the city innovate in areas such as big data and AI to create new economic opportunity, close equity and skills gaps, and prepare a workforce for the 21st century.
A new collective will take a “place-based approach” to creating economic equity for low-wage workers through structural and systemic change in 10 locations across the US.
Even if US cities could maintain a 10 per cent drop in traffic volumes in the recovery phase, they could significantly improve their climate impact standing, according to a new study by StreetLight Data.
The Ion Smart & Resilient Cities Accelerator wants to support start-ups to create solutions to help in everyday lives, but also in situations that require urgency like the coronavirus outbreak.
An index from StreetLight Data ranks the 100 most populous metro areas based on a range of carbon-related transportation factors, including vehicle miles travelled.
Over the coming weeks the service will extend to more than 2,000 square miles and 11 million people, giving Sprint the largest initial 5G coverage footprint in the US.
Following Hurricane Harvey, the city realised it needed a more precise understanding of how the storm impacted residents and so embarked on the Harvey Data Project.
The communications services company has announced that standards-based 5G is on-air with a commercial service expected to be available in the first four cities in May
