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.
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.
Winners were recognised for projects to attract skilled workers for the green transition, support sustainable food systems, and mobilise residents to vote.
Sixteen electric vehicles are already fulfilling parcel pickup and delivery routes in central Madrid and 17 vehicles will soon be on the road in Barcelona.
Survey data suggests that negativity continues to grow towards the cost of electric vehicles, with many residents unable to commit to the higher price point.
Cycling data technology company See.Sense and micromobility company Dott are launching an innovative road safety initiative for e-scooter users in Madrid.
Using AI and satellite images, Arup’s Urban Heat Snapshot mapped the most extreme hot spots in a 150km2 sample of the urban centres of a range of cities.
Despite being a greener alternative, train travel remains second choice for most European passengers with air often outcompeting rail in three critical areas.
Five cities will run pilots of the CycleRAP risk assessment model, designed to address safety of street and path networks used for cycling and light mobility.
The roaming L-Charge rapid mobile charging van can be summoned via an app like a taxi and reportedly charges vehicles from 0-80 per cent in 15-25 minutes.
El Boalo, Cerceda, Mataelpino in Madrid and Torrelles de Llobregat in Catalonia have been awarded Zero Waste Cities Certification, a European standard evaluated by third parties.
Municipal Transport Company of Madrid’s electrical charging automation system uses an inverted pantograph that will enable vehicles to be charged without operator intervention or waiting time by the driver.
Zity by Mobilize has also announced that it will use the CloudBoxx telematics unit to increase the efficiency of operations and analyse trips of the electric car-sharing fleet in the Italian city.
As next-gen Voi e-scooters roll out in Bath, Bristol and Liverpool, the micromobility company reckons commuters now represent its largest rider group while HumanForest registers its highest e-bike usage in London to date.
By offering increased visibility and access to both BiciMad and Bird’s e-bikes, the bikeshare integration bids to help Madrid Municipal Transport Company decarbonise with a sustainable energy model.
E-scooter operator Bolt and the Institute of Transport Economics have shown that in-app encouragement can cause up to 60 per cent of users to shift from ride-hailing to scooters for shorter trips.
Croydon, in south London, will be the first borough in the UK to benefit from a private public partnership, which will reportedly generate more than £6.75m in concession revenue.
Bird’s sensor fusion solution, designed and developed in partnership with U-blox, is being piloted in Milwaukee and San Diego and will be coming to Madrid and more global cities soon.
Based on first programme results, the company said it intends to work with elected officials and community organisations to implement new geospeed areas across its 250 global partner cities.
Ouigo Spain, a low-cost, high-speed operator linking Spanish cities, enables passengers to access real-time information and entertainment via the on-board platform using a reservation number.
The 2020 Smart City Index measures citizens’ perceptions of the impact that technology has on their lives, surveying them on areas such as governance, health and safety, mobility and opportunities.
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.
E-mobility is set to transform all aspects of transportation across the next decade as the technology becomes mainstream, writes Christopher Burghardt, Managing Director for Europe, ChargePoint.
The Bloomberg Philanthropies initiative aims to help the cities deliver "high impact" digital services and share lessons learned with the rest of the world.
The study by digital healthcare start-up Medbelle sought to identify the leading hospital cities based on a range of criteria, including citizen accessibility.
Austin, Athens, Lisbon and Venice are the latest major cities to have ‘peaked’ their greenhouse gas emissions, meaning they won’t rise any further and are now falling.
Simply asking people what they want through consultations, surveys and focus groups isn’t enough – cities have to reach a much broader range of people and move towards true ‘co-creation’.
