Smart Governance

The Digital Road Authority combines different types of traffic data in order to provide the residents of IJburg with personalised travel advice. Residents receive advice through an app, based on appointments in their phone’s calendar, their destination and the current situation at the traffic lights. The Digital Road Authority is not only in contact with departing travellers, but also with the traffic lights. It divides personal ‘travel slots’ based on current and expected traffic density.

The Helsinki Region Infoshare Project aims to make regional information from public organisations more easily accessible to the public. The data are free of charge and can be used by businesses, academia and research institutes, governmental institutes or citizens.

FixMyTransport is a website (with a mobile phone version) developed by mySociety, that allows passengers to report issues on any public transport in the UK: train, bus, underground, tram, or coach. People can report problems online, such as broken ticket machines or buses that always leave early, and mySociety then sends the information provided straight to the correct transport operator or local authority so that action can be taken.

Oyster is a plastic smartcard which can hold pay as you go credit, Travelcards and Bus & Tram Passes. You can use an Oyster card to travel on bus, Tube, tram, DLR, London Overground, TfL Rail and most National Rail services in London.

The initiative addresses problems of energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions in public transportation, and opportunities created by smart grids for provision of new services. The initiative builds upon the development of a new mass transport corridor in Curitiba. Curitiba has a long history of sustainable urban development.

London Datastore was one of the first platforms worldwide to make public data open and accessible. Access to public data has created new markets, encouraging the development of products and services for Londoners. The Datastore receives over 30,000 visits a month, with over 450 transport apps alone having been created.

Living PlanIT announced at the Clinton Global Initiative today that it is working with Hitachi to deliver the City Data Market for Copenhagen, a recognized leader in smart city programs. This innovative platform, based on Living PlanIT's PlanIT Urban Operating System, further delivers on Copenhagen's commitment to bring economic, social, and environmental improvements and sustainability to the city.

"First smart city in the world". Since the 1970s, the city has developed structural corridors and explored TOD (Transport oriented development) concepts. In fact, Curitiba was the first city to implement a BRT (Bus Rapid Transport) system.

The PlanIT UOS enables systems such as energy, water, waste management, transportation, telecommunication, healthcare, security and potentially everything around you to communicate intelligently with each other – and with a world of ever-proliferating sensors and devices. And because we do this in ways that make obvious bottom-line sense, almost everything is about to change.

As one of the anchor programs of the GCI, within the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, the GCIF hosts a network of 255 cities across 82 countries committed to building standardized city indicators for performance management including a database of comparable statistics that allow cities to track their effectiveness on everything from planning and economic growth to transportation, safety and education.