Berlin plant den Kohleausstieg für spätestens 2030 und will so Vorreiter für eine emissionsärmere Zukunft sein. Dazu sollen bis 2030 die verbleibenden ...
Uber & Lyft charges to be increased in Chicago to improve transit
Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago announced a plan to raise taxes on Uber and Lyft rides during the course of the next two years to channel funding into CTA ...
Smaller cities partner up to introduce bike-share
The Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) is planning a regional program with involvement from 16 small towns and cities around Boston to introduce ...
Google turns Toronto neighborhood into living lab
Urban innovations company Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, and the Canadian government announced a collaboration ...
Palm Beach County hires company to rescue public tranportation
Palm Beach County in Florida has multiple major problems with its transportation system. Officials now partnered up with a company known for improving big ...
Seattle pioneer for increasing bus ridership
Seattle, out of all major cities in the U.S., has experienced the biggest jump in bus ridership in the recent past. The public transit authority has been ...
Smart crosswalk tested in London
Architectural firm Umbrellium has developed the humble crosswalk, a digital crosswalk which reacts to pedestrians walking over it, in collaboration with ...
Amazon highlights importance of good transit
As Amazon is about to build a second headquarters in a major North American city, the company explicitly expressed a preference for cities with access to ...
Jakarta utilizes technology to tackle urban challenges with citizens
Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, is ramping up urban development with an array of innovations. The city uses web-based planning mechanisms to involve ...
Toolkit brings environmental justice into city planning
SB 1000, an innovative environmental justice policy now mandated for all municipalities throughout California, requires cities to consider environmental ...
