Knowing a city’s needs, expanding the conversation about smart cities, realising that Internet is a necessity, and financing were just some of the major issues discussed late last week at the 2016 Smart Cities Week event in Washington, DC.

Forget Metrorail expansion. Miami-Dade is instead moving with all deliberate speed to deploy a different kind of rapid-transit system to connect downtown Miami to the county’s far western reaches, starting as soon as next year, and it will consist of … buses.

After last year’s initial investment of $160 million, The White House has stated that it is placing an extra $80 million into technology and smart city projects.

With the potential to improve the entire driving experience, as well as advance safety standards across the board, there’s a good reason why many drivers are excited to see what the future of the connected car has in store.

From cars to combines, the IoT market potential of connected vehicles is so expansive that it will even eclipse that of the mobile phone. Connected personal vehicles will be the final link in a fully connected IoT ecosystem. This is an incredibly important moment to capitalize on given how much time people spend in cars. When mobility services and autonomous cars begin to take hold, it will become even more critical as people will be behind a screen instead of behind the wheel.

It’s perhaps the world’s most recognizable man-made horizon.

When we talk about the problems associated with cars and transportation, we often focus on fatal accidents, or air pollution, or traffic jams. We less frequently consider how much sheer space cars take up in America’s cities. But let’s pause to give this some thought.

Being the new kid on the block can have its advantages. While many municipalities struggle to fund innovative smart-city technologies out of already-established budgets, Peachtree Corners, Ga., found it had an edge.

Automated and connected vehicle technology has the potential to change all aspects of mobility and disrupt both public and private transportation as we know it. 

Federal regulators are reviewing a draft vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication rule that may be released before the next president takes office, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said.

 The Obama administration is pledging more than $80 million in new federal investments for its Smart Cities Initiative and will double the number of participating cities to more than 70, the White House announced Sept. 26.

A week after the U.S. Department of Transportation issued its first-ever guidance on autonomous vehicles – better known as self-driving cars – Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx visited the International Transportation Innovation Center in Greenville.

The Ohio city is uniquely positioned to grow, but needs to be strategic about infrastructure and development to make the most out of the $40 million Smart City grant.

The global juggernaut that is the rising age of the internet of things (IoT) could give this country a boost in its bid to diversify.

In just five years, ever more sophisticated in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems that stream music and offer real-time navigation will generate up to 98% of mobile-to-mobile (M2M) data traffic, according to a new report.