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    Can predictive analytics help prevent homelessness?

    Better modeling could help cities target interventions that allow individuals to keep their homes and limit the strain on public services.

    By Karen Kroll • Oct. 31, 2022
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    Washington, D.C. launches mobility innovation district to drive technological advancement

    Editor's note: This article was originally published in American City & County, which has merged with Smart Cities Dive to bring you expanded coverage of city innovation and local government. For the latest in smart city news, explore Smart Cities Dive or sign up for our newsletter.Over the l...

    By Andy Castillo • Oct. 28, 2022
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    Smart Cities Technology and Data

    Cities are increasingly looking to technology and data to address real-world issues from traffic safety to law enforcement.

    By Smart Cities Dive staff
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    AV developer Argo AI to shut down as Ford, Volkswagen halt investments

    Autonomous vehicles are “not ready for prime time,” said one safety expert, and Ford agrees. Argo AI operated AVs in Miami and Austin, Texas.

    By Oct. 27, 2022
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    Smart loading zone pilot launched in Philadelphia for delivery drivers

    Anyone who’s driven down a bustling main street in a large city knows how difficult parking can be—especially for delivery drivers offloading product or equipment.

    By Andy Castillo • Oct. 21, 2022
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    What’s next with Orlando’s digital twin

    Users can experience the 800-square-mile digital twin in downtown Orlando or via virtual reality as the Orlando Economic Partnership seeks to market its potential to inform decisions around infrastructure and business development.

    By Maria Rachal • Oct. 21, 2022
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    DC mobility innovation district aims to increase transit access, model solutions

    Launching Thursday, the multiyear project will experiment with innovative transportation services such as on-demand shuttles and electrification hubs while also seeking to spur economic development and job creation.

    By Kalena Thomhave • Oct. 20, 2022
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    Halloween and Cybersecurity Awareness Month—More trick than treat?

    Editor's note: This article was originally published in American City & County, which has merged with Smart Cities Dive to bring you expanded coverage of city innovation and local government. For the latest in smart city news, explore Smart Cities Dive or sign up for our newsletter.The month ...

    By Dr. Alan R. Shark • Oct. 19, 2022
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    Philadelphia piloting smart loading zones with Sidewalk Labs tech

    In digitizing curb assets and regulation, the city is trying to shore up safety and efficiency issues related to deliveries and parking enforcement, explained Smart Cities Director Akshay Malik.

    By Maria Rachal • Oct. 18, 2022
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    Amazon Web Services’ smart city program aims to ease buying decisions

    Real-time traffic management and data analytics are among the services offered under AWS' certification program, which currently has nine vendor participants.

    By Michael Brady • Oct. 12, 2022
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    Cybersecurity needs a statewide approach, state chief information officers, Deloitte say in new report

    Cities often hesitate to work with states on cybersecurity to protect their autonomy, but that could change as local governments vie for new cybersecurity grants, the report authors suggest.

    By Michael Brady • Oct. 10, 2022
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    Quenching cities’ thirst for data

    Data has always played an important role for city planners and transportation departments but recently the thirst for data has increased exponentially.

    Oct. 10, 2022
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    AV industry still needs to prove safety to cities and states, mobility leaders say

    Consider public acceptance of autonomous vehicles now and when taxpayers may have to pay for the technology that enables connected roads, MOVE America conference speakers said. 

    By Oct. 7, 2022
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    MobilityData takes over micromobility open-data standard

    Nearly 9 in 10 cities in North America require micromobility service providers to use the General Bikeshare Feed Specification, which provides real-time information about a shared mobility system.

    By Michael Brady • Oct. 7, 2022
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    Rural Minnesota community test drives autonomous shuttle service that features ADA-compliant minivans

    To this point, experimentations with autonomous vehicle technology has been mostly centered in large, connected cities like Las Vegas.

    By Andy Castillo • Oct. 6, 2022
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    Building 100 percent digital state and local governments

    Building 100 percent digital state and local governments

    By Joseph Flynn • Oct. 6, 2022
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    Security to take an outsized role in IT spending in 2023

    Modernization has taught organizations that cyber spend is a smart investment.

    By Matt Ashare • Oct. 4, 2022
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    State and local governments report spike in ransomware attacks

    The public sector is hit less often than other industries, but it contends with more post-attack damage, according to Sophos.

    By Matt Kapko • Oct. 3, 2022
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    Food delivery robots to roam Chicago in pilot program

    Robot operators will partner with restaurants and grocery stores to test the app-based robot deliveries. City leaders will look at device boundaries, vandalism, and other potential issues.

    By Katie Pyzyk • Oct. 3, 2022
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    Cities need to look at total picture when buying technology

    Cities need to look at total picture when buying technology

    By Michael Keating • Sept. 30, 2022
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    How to move pilot projects to permanent programs

    Officials from Frisco and San Antonio, Texas, and the New York Public Library system, shared at the Smart Cities Connect conference their challenges when transitioning trials to full programs and their strategies to overcome them.

    By Danielle McLean • Sept. 30, 2022
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    3 takeaways from the Smart Cities Connect fall conference

    Public- and private-sector professionals shared ideas on how to get support for procurement, make progress on open-source and interoperable technologies and more.

    By Maria Rachal • Sept. 30, 2022
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    Report: 9 in 10 companies will require return to office by 2023

    Notably, nearly three-quarters of companies surveyed said they still intend to hire remote workers in the future.

    By Kathryn Moody • Sept. 30, 2022
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    Satellite IoT brings calm before and after the storm

    Editor's note: This article was originally published in American City & County, which has merged with Smart Cities Dive to bring you expanded coverage of city innovation and local government. For the latest in smart city news, explore Smart Cities Dive or sign up for our newsletter.According ...

    By Claudia Smith • Sept. 27, 2022
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    Don’t let flying taxis be the next scooters, city planners warn

    Private companies could begin operating air taxi services by 2024, experts said during the ITS World Congress in Los Angeles. Cities need to plan their regulatory approach now.

    By Michael Brady • Sept. 27, 2022
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    Connected vehicle insights help Washington D.C. better understand school zone traffic safety

    The district uses crash, volume, speed and demographic information from Safety View by GM Future Roads and INRIX to help reduce injuries among children.

    Sept. 26, 2022