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Uber to Start Offering Riders Real-Time Public Transit Info
(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) Ride-hailing apps may be taking riders away from public transit, but they’re also beginning to establish partnerships to address the notorious first/last mile issue. Uber is...
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How 3 Cities Are Using an App Designed to Help Them Collaborate
An Anchorage, Alaska, official identified Portland, Maine, as a "peer city." (Photo by Didier Moïse) The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago released an innovative app in February that does some heavy...
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Digital Tool Aims to ID Urban Planning’s Winners, Losers
SimCity 4 (Credit: flickr user sntc06) I’ll be the first to admit it. Sometimes when I’m walking the streets of any city, and I take a seat on a park bench to do some quality people watching, and...
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Building an Inclusive Tech Hub in Detroit
Grand Circus’ office space in the Broderick Towner in downtown Detroit is buzzing with activity. In a conference room with large windows that overlook the People Mover elevated train, a group of...
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Portland Opens Its Streets to Driverless Car Testing
(AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) Portland’s City Council voted unanimously last week to move forward with an autonomous vehicle pilot and invite companies to submit proposals for testing on Portland...
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Comcast Brings “Internet of Things” Network to 12 Cities
(AP Photo/Sang Tan, File) Comcast’s “Internet of Things” service machineQ, which links up physical sensors to gather data from “smart” utilities like patient monitoring devices in hospitals, will be...
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New D.C. Lab Wants to Use Big Data to Shape City Policy
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) The city of Washington, D.C., sees your municipality’s chief data officer and will raise you a whole team of social scientists with backgrounds in...
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Seattle Names First Smart City Coordinator
Downtown Seattle (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) From traffic flow to open data portals, Seattle has big plans in the “smart city” category. To that end, it’s announced the hiring of a new smart city...
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“Smart City” Tech Should Tackle More Than Transit and Energy
(Photo by Priscilla Du Preez) “Smart” cities are reinventing themselves by taking a data-driven approach to governing, but smart city technology has so far addressed only a limited set of use cases....
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Lyft to Test Driverless Cars in S.F.
(AP Photo/Noah Berger) Lyft users in the Bay Area will soon have the option of being shuttled around in self-driving cars. The ride-sharing company trails its main competitor, Uber, in the autonomous...
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Madison Lays Out City Hall Spending in Interactive Map
(Credit: City of Madison) Joining the ranks of Chicago, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and many others, the city of Madison, Wisconsin, has built a tool to help residents visualize the data that makes...
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4 U.S. Mega-Regions Advance in Hyperloop Competition
A model of the Hyperloop One project is displayed at a November 2016 news conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The city-state announced a deal with Los Angeles-based Hyperloop One to study the...
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Electric Bus Travels Record Distance
(Credit: Proterra) Electric bus manufacturer Proterra is reportedly done working on range. On September 4, at the Indiana Navistar Proving Grounds, one of its buses snagged the long-distance record...
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New Data Tool Could Help Small Cities Be More Transparent
(Credit: OpenGov) With its budget visualization tools and products that allow would-be voters to read drafts of bills and comment electronically, California-based software company OpenGov has been...
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With Cities Facing Tech Displacement, Google Offers $1 Billion Pledge
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announces a new initiative called Grow With Google during a news conference at the Google offices in Pittsburgh, in October. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) In Pittsburgh, the city...
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Sidewalk Labs Is Building Its Own City
The Toronto waterfront (Photo by Alex Shutin) In May, Bloomberg Technology reported that Downtown Toronto could be getting a “smart city” development from Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s...
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This City Council Candidate Would Let an App Take His Seat
Downtown Boulder (Photo by Paul Sableman) Camilo Casas is running for City Council in Boulder, Colorado — but if elected, he’ll cede all decision-making power to an app. Related Stories Pittsburgh...
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Maryland’s on Board With East Coast Hyperloop
Tesla CEO Elon Musk (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File) Elon Musk has his eye on a stretch of dirt between New York City and Washington, D.C., for an underground hyperloop route — and last week Maryland...
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How 53 Cities Are Preparing for Autonomous Vehicles
(Credit: Bloomberg Philanthropies) Dubai has big plans for autonomous vehicles — some of the most ambitious globally, in fact — with a strategy that could slash the city-state’s transportation costs...
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New Online Service Guest-Rm Aims to Offer Cheap Alternative to Airbnb
Imagine you’ve got an out-of-town friend you haven’t seen in a while. You’d love to invite her to visit, but the hotels in your city are just a little too expensive, and so are the Airbnbs. Your own...
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