Mobility Archives - Harvard TECH City Innovators

Making the Most of Lockdown: Contact Tracing Apps and City Improvements

As residents ease back into daily life, contact tracing technology becomes more important than ever. In the meantime, empty streets offer cities the rare opportunity to collect valuable data and improve infrastructure while most people are safe at home. To facilitate knowledge sharing — specifically about COVID-19 — between city leaders, Dr. David S. Ricketts, […]

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How Cities Can Use Cellular Data to Measure Social Distancing

Social distancing is expected to remain a part of our lives throughout 2020 and as such, cities rely on technology including cellular data to help monitor the effects of local gathering restrictions. To facilitate knowledge sharing — specifically about COVID-19 — between city leaders, Dr. David S. Ricketts, Innovation Fellow at Harvard TECH, hosts a

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MaaS in Action: Why Cities are Pushing Mobility-as-a-Service

Mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) represents shifting views on how city leaders can cure the epidemic of pollution and traffic congestion. Together with vehicle innovation and city policy changes, MaaS offers alternative transportation options to the public that can save money, lives, and the environment. Why Mobility-as-a-Service? There are two main reasons that cities are starting to push

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Transit Fare Collection in a Fast-Changing World

Insights from the 2019 Transit Innovation Workshop In October, The Transit Innovation Workshop brought together nearly 30 leaders in transit authority, data, and payment processing for an exclusive urban mobility forum in New York City. Chaired by Dr. David S. Ricketts, Harvard Innovation Fellow, the workshop addressed key issues and constraints facing transit fare collection

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Smart Cities and Mobility: A Look to 2049 and What the Future May Hold

Mobility and the many challenges it brings to cities across the globe is a subject that comes up often at our Smart City Innovation Accelerator events. We’ve heard from city leaders in Chennai, India, who are currently creating the largest parking management system in their country, if not the world, to offset a massive issue

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Mobility in Our Cities: Challenges, Possibilities, and the Unknown Future

With populations on the rise, mobility in our cities is one of the major focus areas for all smart city projects. How can cities make transportation more fluid and efficient? How can they reduce congestion and pollution from gasoline engines? What alternatives to the traditional personal automobile should cities explore – and how do they

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