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Sustainable Cities and Society publishes a new paper by Zicheng Fan and Filip Biljecki that brings a new paradigm — urban sensing via Nighttime Street View Imagery (SVI). The paradigm draws on the accomplishments of (daytime) SVI and gives attention to its ignored nighttime counterpart. The study included manually collecting 2,831 nighttime images across various urban functional areas in Singapore, and sharing them openly to the urban informatics community. This study demonstrates the potential of nighttime SVI as a valuable data source for mapping urban lighting and activities, offering advantages over satellite data. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gKHNy6Rg

Meet the #SmartPublicTransportLab of TU Delft at the Urbanism Next Europe conference, hosting and contributing to multiple sessions: How to Keep Cities Accessible and Livable? Trade and Travel: the Potential of Tradeable Mobility Credits as a Means to Manage and Steer Travel Demand Integrating Shared Mobility and Transit to Enhance Our Cities Harnessing AI for Data-Driven Decision Making in Urban Mobility: Challenges and Opportunities What We Talk About When We Talk About Inclusive Mobility The Triumphs and the Tribulations of Shared Micromobility & Public Transport Integration Serious Game: Finding the Optimal Mix With: Jyotsna Singh Elif Arslan Michael Tahmoressi Nejc Geržinič Matthew Bruno Arjan de Ruijter Fatemeh Torabi Lina Cheraitia Find the presentations and contributions here: https://lnkd.in/gvmpZXmM

Smart City Expo World Congress , we’re excited to be part of this global event, connecting with experts, exploring innovations, and discussing the future of sustainable urban development. Stay tuned for insights and updates as we dive into what’s next for smart cities! 赵飞 Kelvin Masha Maykell Pascual Anwar Daoud Ahmed Ibrahim Oto Ido #SCEWC24 #SmartCityBarcelona #UrbanInnovation #SustainableCities #DigitalTransformation”

📢 Wrapping Up #SCEWC24 : What’s Next for Urban Innovation? 🌍 This year’s Smart City Expo World Congress highlighted transformative trends that are shaping the cities of tomorrow. From sustainable infrastructure and smart mobility to 5G and AI-powered security, urban innovation is advancing faster than ever. Our latest blog breaks down the top takeaways. Check it out to see where smart cities are headed! 🔗Blog Link 🔗https://lnkd.in/dRm2Un9y #MTi #Mingothings #SCEWC25 #SCEWC24 #UrbanInnovation #SmartCities #Mingothings #DigitalTransformation #FutureOfCities

Free public transit for all. Sounds great. But is it, really? Last year, at #TMWC the round table, moderated by Sean Goulding, around public transport and incentives in cities strike a lot of debates and conversations. Is free public transport reaching the population we want? At EIT Urban Mobility we keep exploring how innovative solutions including shared mobility hubs, artificial intelligence, gamification, and incentive mechanisms can accelerate public transport uptake. Join us at Tomorrow.Mobility 2024 to participate in these debates and share your thoughts. In the meanwhile, we share one of our most recent EIT Urban Mobility - Urban Mobility Explained (UMX) video on the topic:

Smart Cities Expo 2023 The Smart Cities Expo 2023 in Barcelona (Spain) aimed to explore and showcase innovative solutions for urban development and sustainability. The event focused on promoting the integration of technology, data, and smart infrastructure to enhance urban living. Key objectives included fostering collaboration between government, industry, and academia, addressing urban challenges such as mobility, energy efficiency, and climate resilience, and exploring how smart city technologies can improve quality of life, economic growth, and environmental sustainability. The expo also provided a platform for sharing best practices and cutting-edge innovations in smart city development. Avia-GIS (Guy Hendrickx) was present at the expo with a booth showcasing how the combined use of VECMAP and VECTRACK can help monitor and therefore mitigate the risk of mosquito-transmitted diseases in urban areas, with a specific reference of potentially increased risk in greener parts of the city.

Global industry experts at the Smart City Expo World Congress this week discuss the value of cross-sector collaboration & power of ecosystems in solving urban mobility challenges.  Eva Oosters, the Deputy Mayor for Zero-Emission Mobility in the City of Utrecht, described how Utrecht’s mobility ecosystem isn’t confined within municipality boundaries but extends to the national level too. The city is part of the Dutch Metropolitan Innovations (DMI) ecosystem which unites 15 cities in the Netherlands with 60 companies and institutions to find innovative smart city solutions. Going one step further, Utrecht is the president city of the international European organisation POLIS for the coming year. “There you can see how powerful it can be to work with all the different regions and cities around us on the continent to find solutions for the problems we all face.” Read more: https://lnkd.in/eKHik7Ct

Looking for ways to tackle urban heat? Don’t miss our upcoming webinar, "The Role of Urban Planning & Digital Twins in Cooling Cities," on September 25th from 10-11 AM CEST.

After our succesful webinar with BABLE Smart Cities we’re ramping up for a series of real life events in October and November as side event or integrated in larger European conferences.  In all these events we will dig deeper into the barriers that prevent succesful collaboration between scale ups and cities, to make deployment of on demand, shared, connected, new mobility services go faster and more smooth. So pay attention when you are a scale up with ambitions and experience in doing business with cities all over Europe.  And if you are a city that wants to make use of the full innovative potential of scale ups in boosting your transformation to a smart, sustainable, safe and inclusive urban mobility system. We no less than aim for solutions and solve the barriers.    Registrationlinks for our NMS side events follow any time soon this summer. For the wider conferences in Parma and Barcelona you need to register seperately.    Save the dates: - NMS side event during the CIVITAS Initiative Forum in Parma after the closing plenary: Thursday October 3 afternoon and Friday October 4th morning. - https://lnkd.in/dg6FMKtT - NMS side event during the European Week of Regions and Cities #EURegionsWeek in Brussels, Tuesday October 8th in the Comic Art Museum - Brussels 10.00 – 16.00h - NMS contributing to CIVITAS Agora and network event during the Smart Cities Expo World Congress in Barcelona November 5 or 6th  - https://lnkd.in/dnM9Efg - NMS session during Annual POLIS Network Conference in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg Thursday November 28th -  https://lnkd.in/ePU76YvQ   Our next webinar will be Thursday September 12th 14.30 – 15.30 co-produced with PAVE Europe and NMS partner and managing director Guido Di Pasquale.  PAVE Europe https://lnkd.in/dgxcPA2k is a broad coalition with one goal: To bring the conversation about automated vehicles (AVs) to the public so everyone can play a role in shaping our future. Therefore the focus of our next webinar will be on the role of automated vehicles in large scale deployment of new mobility services in an urban context. Again the improvement of collaboration between scale ups and cities will be the main topic of our presentation and conversation.   Don’t hesitate to contact us if you want to discuss or have a role in one of our events.  Moreover give your input in our survey that is still open: https://lnkd.in/eZVxeFRQ On behalf of the NMS core team which at the moment entails: Edwin Mermans - Provincie Noord-Brabant Dr. Nina Nesterova - Breda University of Applied Sciences Tamara Djukic, PhD - ERTICO - ITS Europe Ivo Cré - POLIS Network Daniel Alberto Herrera Meek - POLIS Network Peter Staelens - Eurocities Evelien Marlier - imec Theo Thuis - European Parking Association Welmoed Neijmeijer - MO Advisory Janneke Brouwer - SmartwayZ.NL / Tekkoo Tamlyn Shimizu - BABLE Smart Cities.