Thinking Cities News
OLGA USKOVA BLOG: Death in the Denominator

“To the Moika Embankment, please.” I am sitting in a taxi in the city of St. Petersburg and looking at my random taxi driver. It's a 60-year-old man that constantly...

The Lighthouse Family

The Greening the Islands Observatory has selected its lighthouse islands for analysis and set 2019's activities. At the most recent Greening the Islands Italian conference in Rome, the second meeting...

Best In Show: ITS Based on PTV Technology Optimises Traffic Flow in Taichung City

Taichung City’s newly implemented Intelligent Traffic System based on technology of the German software company PTV Group has won the Distinguished Honor Award as best ITS project 2018 in Taiwan....

Smart Move: Cubic Buys GRIDSMART To Expand ITS Portfolio

Cubic Corporation has announced the acquisition of GRIDSMART Technologies, Inc., a market-leading, technology-driven business with a differentiated video tracking offering in the Intelligent Traffic Systems (ITS) market, for approximately US$87...

Citizens Shaping The Thinking City

The second and final Thinking Cities of 2018 is online now! The theme of this issue is Citizens Shaping the Thinking City, with several articles focusing on people- and citizen-centric...

fC2’s CASMOB CEO Wins Vienna’s Open Data Challenge

Alessio Salzano, CEO of frontierCities2 grantee Alma Digit (CASMOB), and Antonino Galletta, PhD candidate at the University of Messina (UniME), have won the "Discover Open Data Challenge": a challenge issued...

Thinking Cities @ Meeting of the Minds 2018

H3B Media's Bob McQueen's crossed the USA and headed to Sacramento, California for Meeting of the Minds 2018. Bob caught up with six influential figures from the worlds of Smart...

Smart Safe Stop

Teleste has built a smart and safe bus stop at the Nokia Campus in Espoo, Finland, as a part of the LuxTurrim5G ecosystem. The innovative bus stop has been designed...

Sustainable Tourism Key to Island Development

Green tourism is a potent opportunity for the many small islands dotted around the Italian peninsula that could have positive effects on economic development, society and the environment. That's the...

Grid Smarter Cities Wins ITS UK ‘Innovative App’ Award

North-East UK based Grid Smarter Cities have won the ITS UK 'Innovative App award' for creativity and outward thinking for their Intelligent Kerbside Management solution, Kerb. Kerb is a patented,...

First Global Benchmark for Road Safety in Cities Published

Safer City Streets, the worldwide traffic safety network for liveable cities, today published its first global benchmark of urban road safety. The data, collected from 31 cities in 20 countries...

Future Cities and Transport Systems Catapults Awarded Investment to Create UK Innovation Powerhouse

A further investment has been announced in the Future Cities and Transport Systems Catapults. The investment is part of £215m (€240m) committed to the Digital, Medicines Discovery, Future Cities and...