What I learned about Smart Communities (from ITE members) Background This post is to help share this journey as a backdrop from what the recommendations for the organization should be for the rest of 2017 and beyond. Over the past 4 months, I have had the opportunity to go and meet with different Institute of Transportation […]
Smart Cities
Smart Communities Idea No. 1 – Coordinate Transit with Medical Services
This is first post in what (I hope) to be a series of posts focused on actionable ideas cities, counties, and their partners can take. The Smart Communities movement, as chronicled by the ITE International President, Shawn Leight can be summed up like this: “At its core, Smart Communities gather, integrate, and analyze data to enable […]
The deck is stacked against smart cities
The Deck is Stacked Against Smart Cities In the past month, I have been working with the ITE TSM&O committee on a white-paper to talk about Smart Cities. I had inadvertently forgotten that I had signed up for this task, and, after clumsily leaving an important teleconference, realized I had agenda items. Whoops! I then […]
4 things USDOT smart cities need to succeed
USDOT recently announced the 7 finalists in the smart city challenge. In looking at the finalists, I consider all of these “cool cities.” Denver, Austin, Portland, Pittsburgh, San Fran. These are all locations where myself and my peers would want to live. Big tech crowd. Start-up culture. It seems that this is where the DOT’s […]
Why the US does not have “smart cities”
There is a reason that we are not living in smart cities – a tech utopia, like companies like Apple, Google, and Disney have envisioned, and it’s my fault. Well, not specifically my fault, but my industry’s fault. It comes from a traditional way of thinking: that only those with a “civil engineering degree” can do transportation. […]