The awards, organised by World Smart Sustainable Cities Organisation, recognise smart city initiatives that prioritise human-centric and technology innovation.
Polling from cities on five continents shows 90 per cent of residents want to prioritise action to improve air quality with widespread support for transforming streets.
Following an 11-month pilot, the Seoul Cheongwadae Autonomous Bus will end its trial period and begin paid service as part of the public transport system.
The emirate has also opened a Middle East and North Africa regional office for the World Smart Sustainable Cities Organisation to serve as a smart tech hub.
Passes will allow unlimited use of Seoul’s public transportation during the selected period at low cost, making it economical and convenient for tourists.
Seoul’s PM2.5 has reached the lowest level since the first seasonal management programme in 2019 while the number of days with good PM levels quadrupled.
The range of measures being implemented on the South Korean Metro include ventilation systems on platforms and pollution-absorbing mats in concourse areas.
Once pilot data has been analysed, the city plans to establish regular long-distance autonomous bus routes connecting the outskirts of the city with downtown.
Service has been developed in collaboration with tourism startup Flitto to enable international tourists to converse with Korean guides in native languages.
The memorandum of understanding sets out how the global capitals will share their knowledge and experience in areas such as bus, rail and cable car transportation.
The city aims to expand robotic services across sectors, supporting the transition towards a super-ageing society, as well as position Seoul as a global leader.
Data portal includes information on population density and traffic congestion in specific areas and at cultural events as well as other location-based services.
Seoul Metropolitan Government has chosen Hwarang-ro and Taereung Royal Tomb in Nowon-gu district as the location for the pilot project in the South Korean capital.
Seoul Subway provides location-based guidance, station directions, real-time timetable and helps users locate tourist destinations around metro stations.
After a beta test of a range of administrative services, the platform aims to create a hyper-realistic community space for creativity and communication.
It is expected the new drone inspection service will serve as an opportunity to drastically improve the maintenance of some 8,000 hanok buildings in the city.
The Seoul Tech Pavilion marks the first time a pavilion has been operated by a city in the main hall, usually an exhibition space for leading tech companies.
The Ukrainian capital of Kyiv received a special City Award at the annual event, which acknowledges outstanding initiatives and projects in the smart city space.
The Digital Cities Index 2022 report by Economist Impact found that involving citizens in the design of smart city schemes underpins meaningful inclusion.
Seoul Metropolitan Government is aiming to replace old heating and cooling systems in public buildings with geothermal ones to help achieve carbon-neutrality by 2050.
Seoul Metropolitan Government will use artificial intelligence and big data to build a digital platform that can be used from 119 reporting to on-site response.
Created using digital twin technology, the Sangam Driving Zone is open to developers, universities as well as the public to help advance the city as a centre for commercialised self-driving vehicles.
Seoul will open virtual Seoul City Square and indoor event venues during the pilot programme with the project further expanding to key events, forums, and educational programmes run by the city government.
Seoul Metropolitan Government will also create an EV charging station that creates and stores renewable electricity to support its aims of replacing 10 per cent of vehicles in the capital with electric cars by 2026.
The Smart City in Daily Life pilot project will run three services in welfare and safety, including the use of beacons to protect children from going missing as well as night-patrol robots.
The long-term plan, which aims to blur the usual dividing lines between home, leisure and work, is designed as a guide for the next 20 years to pursue various models of urban planning.
Volocopter is developing a family of aircraft, including the VoloCity, VoloConnect and VoloDrone, and is committed to launching commercial air taxi services in locations such as Singapore, Rome, and Paris.
Self-driving car robots will patrol the city to detect dangerous situations while IoT-powered collecting bins will be wheeled out to help improve the recycling rate of domestic waste.
As well as the Chinese city’s platform, other top cities in the ranking are showing how to leverage technology to deliver demonstrable benefits for their citizens.
With the goal of reducing 30 per cent of greenhouse gases to build a city safe against climate crises, the Seoul Metropolitan Government has launched a comprehensive plan for action.
Seoul Metroplitan Government said it will set aside KRW 112.6bn for 253 projects in the smart city space and will help to grow small- and medium-sized ICT companies by placing orders and helping to create jobs.
Seoul Metropolitan Government expects AI-powered Vaccine Care Call service to dramatically reduce workload of public health centres and allow rapid response to treating side effects.
The Seoul Digital Foundation aims to apply key technologies of the fourth industrial revolution, like metaverse and artificial intelligence, to administrative tasks.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government is seeking to induce large companies to voluntarily cut emissions while actively cracking down on the operation of unauthorised or restricted facilities.
German UAM specialist, Volocopter, and Kakao Mobility, South Korea’s largest mobility platform company, will conduct a feasibility study to identify a list of potential commercial routes.
With smart tourism on the rise, the insurance is an effort by the city to solve the safety issue that has been pointed out as a major weakness of the sharing service.
When completed at the end of next year, Metaverse Seoul will handle administrative services regarding the economy, culture, tourism, education, and civil complaints.
Seoul Metropolitan Government decided to introduce the QR code management system so that everyone in the city can request maintenance work for each bin.
The Seoul Talk messaging app has taken on the role of a “city-wide secretary” for the citizens and can deal with public inquiries and complaints covering 54 areas.
Seoul Metropolitan Government aims to deliver 270,000 electric vehicles for public transportation by 2025 with cars, taxis, buses and motorbikes all part of the mix.
Key data that affects the sewage treatment process will be collected to create big data sets that the AI system can analyse in real time and use to automatically manage the water quality.
Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to build 421km of network with 1,000 base stations by 2023, providing a range of IoT services previously available via mobile networks.
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 system automatically identifies sewer problems from CCTV images using computer vision, and will replace manual pipeline inspection conducted by public officials.
Electric mobility companies Ekoen and Ekoenergetyka-Polska won the contract to install charging stations at 10 locations on highways and expressways throughout the country.
An open source project hosted by the Linux Foundation with support from IBM and Call for Code will use machine learning to help inform quality assurance for construction in emerging nations.
A pilot test project will be carried out on 46 buildings in December with 824 further targeted for 2022 that are more than 30 years old or designated as facilities prone to disasters.
The centre at the Incheon Global Campus in the Korean smart city will provide a testbed to develop physical structures and electronic technologies as prototypes for future urban environments.
The Seoul Data of Things sensor network is installed in major mountains, riversides, and downtowns, and collects 17 kinds of urban data every two minutes.
Seoul Metropolitan Government intends to carry out a pilot project to enhance the functionality of smart poles by embedding electric vehicle chargers and drone stations in them.
Seoul Metropolitan Government has been promoting pedestrian-centred road reform policies by reducing roads for cars while expanding pedestrian-only paths and green traffic spaces.
The completed moving parks with planters can be temporarily relocated using a crane or forklift when there are events to be held and rearranged to suit a new space.
Plug and Play will build an innovation platform in Korea based on its relationship with leading corporations, start-ups, and government entities in the country.
The autonomous aerial vehicle technology platform company is partnering with architecture firm Giancarlo Zema Design Group to help extend its air mobility solutions in Europe.
Cities were recognised for not only being advanced in terms of technologies adopted throughout the city, but in their government’s efforts to bring the city population along with their digitalisation journey.
According to Ehang, the flight tours across Seoul, Daegu, and Jeju Island signify the starting point to explore the urban air mobility (UAM) market in South Korea.
In a statement released today, the C40 Global Mayors Covid-19 Recovery Task Force warned that a “high-carbon recovery” will accelerate climate breakdown, endanger public health, cost lives and sacrifice jobs.
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.
