Riders hopping aboard Houston area buses and trains will be able to surf the web by mid-2021 as they travel the entire region.
Building on a pilot project offering internet access on board two routes and the Green and Purple train lines, Metropolitan Transit Authority officials will outfit 1,736 vehicles over the next 15 months with new routers. Once all the buses, trains and paratransit vehicles are connected, riders will be able to use Wi-Fi on smartphones, tablets and computers across the entire transit system.
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“Smart cities are a new mega-trend that enables the digitization of infrastructure, with new services and solutions elevating their quality and customer experiences while reducing overall costs and times to market,” Andres Carvallo, Co-Director at CIEDAR — a smart city research study arm at Texas State University– informed TechHQ
While very early adopters of the fad, such as Barcelona, have actually released IoT (Internet of Things) around the city to improve civil services such as transportation and boost the way of living of its people, we are still at the incipient phase in the growth of tomorrow’s smart cities.
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Data analytics tools can help make transportation systems and city life more efficient.
Being able to accurately assess public transportation ridership and vehicular traffic is more important to cities now than ever in the recent past as transit volumes in cities plummet due to social distancing.
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Once heralded as the solution to most election woes, our affinity for the paperless voting technology has dimmed. Today, experts consider it one of the biggest liabilities, and favor a return to paper ballots.
Before the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) took over as the single biggest threat to the 2020 presidential election, the security of state voting infrastructure was chief among the concerns held by many elected officials.
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Carlsbad officials have laid the groundwork for a new digital infrastructure that will one day capture data about public rights of way and connect citizens with government services. They’ve put privacy and public input upfront.
Carlsbad is well on its way to becoming the region’s next “smart city.” In recent weeks, elected officials have laid the groundwork for a new digital infrastructure that will one day capture data about public rights of way and connect citizens with government services.
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