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What does it take to be a “Smart City?”
We live in a world where everything is said to be smart. We have “smartphones,” “smart watches” and “smart cars.” The obvious next step in the evolution of smart is a“Smart City.” We define them as “smart” because of what is behind them, the technology behind them...
Autonomous vs. Assisted Driving: A Fork in the Road?
Drive-assist and autonomous cars have begun to emerge as very real possibilities for the market. Due to the thriving technology sector of transportation, we are being offered options that we have never had in the past. However, with great power comes great...
Smart Cities: Getting Stakeholders Involved
I remember sitting as a child and imagining what the future would look like. My vision was more along the lines of flying cars and no bedtime, but still... The technology industry is growing and developing solutions that would make that little girl jump...
Vision Zero: A New Conversation
We hear about collisions all the time. They're on the news, the radio, and on the streets of our cities. Fatal accidents happen frequently... and our reactions are usually quite similar. "The driver was going too fast." "The driver should have been more careful." "The...
Speeding: Getting Us Nowhere Fast
Whether we're rushing to work or soccer practice, we are all familiar with the sense of urgency affiliated with being late. It's stressful, so we look for any way to ease that, even if we aren't actually doing anything productive. This includes yelling at our...
Ride-sharing: Old Ideas, New Tech
How many times have you thought "there just aren't enough hours in the day"? I'm not sure about the average adult, but I promise you the average mother says this approximately 1000 times a week (or at least mine did). Trying to balance children and the rest of...
Uber: A Matter of Convenience?
It has been a busy morning. Coffee in hand, you rush to the door. Your foot catches on the edge of your new couch. The couch that sticks out just a little too far... Three months ago, you were sure that nothing could be worse than that ratty old couch. It was...
Bluetooth 5: Demanding a New Era of Traffic Detection
The world of technology is forever changing. Though few would deny this, many fail to jump on board as the trends fly past them. In any industry, companies who are "set in their ways" risk losing everything in the blink of an eye. To mitigate this, it is important to...
Costs of Congestion: Economic Effects
Let's talk tangibles. So many of the issues in our lives can go unrecognized or unaddressed for ages. The laundry? It can wait until tomorrow. Visiting your in-laws? Next summer. However, there is one thing that almost always gets us moving: money. If you want someone...
Costs of Congestion: The Environment
For so many years, we lived in our own bubble. If it didn't affect us, it didn't concern us. We were told to keep our "noses out of other's business" and so on. In today's climate (no pun intended), that is no longer an option. We have to take action against the...