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Reopening Woes: Cities Struggle With PPE Supply Chain and Contact Tracing Open Graph

Reopening Woes: Cities Struggle With PPE Supply Chain and Contact Tracking

Cities worldwide are paving the road to economic recovery through phased reopening plans, COVID-19 testing, and the acquisition of personal protective equipment (PPE). To facilitate knowledge sharing — specifically about COVID-19 — between city leaders, Dr. David S. Ricketts, Innovation Fellow at Harvard TECH, hosts a weekly Zoom call to discuss the challenges cities are […]

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London, Dublin and Israel Use Big Data to Measure Social Distancing

By now, most cities have overcome the initial panic of COVID-19. They are now beginning to manage long-term restrictions and consider the easing of restrictions. Some form of social distancing is expected to remain and play a role throughout 2020. To help cities understand what technology solutions are currently available to help monitor the effects

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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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The Many Angles of Sustainability: Waste Management, Trees, and Traffic

The Smart Cities Innovation Accelerator at Melbourne included a Sustainability and Environment Panel that was deliberately vague in scope. Sustainability is a huge area for smart cities, and although a particular topic could have been chosen, it is also valuable to go into the discussion without bias. What does sustainability mean to each city? What

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Tackling a Once-in-a-Generation Infrastructure Uplift in New South Wales

New South Wales has been doing smart city mobility projects since around 2012, but all of that accelerated in 2016 when the government put together a program called the Future Transportation Program, created in order to plan out a once-in-a-generation infrastructure uplift. With a $100 billion investment on the line, they did not want to

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5 Goals to Consider When Creating a Smart City

Driverless cars scoot by on curb-less streets that seamlessly transform into no-traffic public plazas at specific times each day. To the side stand multi-use buildings, constructed out of the latest in inexpensive and sustainable materials, with semi-public ground floors and upper levels that include residential, office, and light industrial spaces. Underneath lies an underground tunnel

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