Thinking Highways Articles
The Road To Nowhere?

Perched atop massive cement pillars that tower above Montenegro’s picturesque Moraca river canyon, scores of Chinese workers are building a state-of-the-art highway through some of the roughest terrain in southern...

Ridesharing

ROADSPACETIME – SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED A Transit Exchange for the 21st Century – with a decade of hard work and perseverance finally destined to pay off for ERIC MASABA, the...

Internet of Things

BETTER TOGETHER   CityVerve – the smart city demonstrator that has inspired Manchester, by Mark Duncan Technology is transforming our cities. It is empowering governments, businesses and citizens to tackle...

Toyota Research Institute introduces Next-Generation Automated Driving Research Vehicle at CES

Toyota Research Institute (TRI) will show its next-generation automated driving research vehicle, Platform 3.0, at CES® next week in Las Vegas. The new platform, which is built on a Lexus...

The Drive Towards Smarter Logistics

Local Motors has teamed up with industry-leading professionals, Florida-based Elite Transportation Services (ETS), a subsidiary of Elite Parking Services, and Texas-based Xcelerate, securing both third party operational support and vehicle...

Cities: The Frontline Of Tackling The Global Diabetes Epidemic

Urbanisation is not just changing where we live; it is having a profound influence on how well we live. Cities concentrate people, opportunities, and services, including health. When cities are...

 THE ONLY WAY IS ETHICS 

Three FIWARE-based solutions for Smart Cities are joining forces to develop a modular and open platform, leveraging “complementary vertical experiences” in the fields of IoT, data management and citizen engagement....

OK COMMUTER 

Positive Drive is a gamified tracking and tracing campaign to uncover the mobility behaviour of employees in the Luxembourgish Cloche d’Or business area. Dr Martin Kracheel and Patrick van Egmond elucidate Imagine a busy...

 THE SOUND OF PROGRESS 

Visually impaired travellers in Kaunas are now finding it far easier to navigate their way around Lithuania’s second city with the help of an innovative audible bus information app, as Jim...

ODENSIFICATION: how to grow your city organically 

Thinking Cities’ Pasquale Cancellara talks to Steen Møller, Deputy Mayor for Employment and Social Services Department for the City of Odense, Denmark Odense is a well-known, middle-sized city in Denmark that has a very...

P3: CUTTING THE TAPE

One way or another, says David Pickeral, public-private partnerships in some form will again be central to evolving our transportation infrastructure; the key will be ensuring their ability to act...

CHICKEN MEET EGG

Do you need to start recognizing and unlocking the value of your smart city data? Bob McQueen provides a timely guide to doing just that There are a lot of...