Controversial plans in Oxford that make it harder to drive directly between different areas are not being considered in Swindon, council bosses have said. /p>
But the concept of '15-minute cities', where basic essential services are within walking or cycling distance of residential development, has already been used to inform new developments including the New Eastern Village scheme.
The Smart District will be a testbed for ideas and technologies that maximise investment opportunities as well as address the city centre’s key challenges.
Belfast City Council has announced proposals for a Smart District to support the transformation of Belfast city centre, one of several initiatives in its Smart Belfast Urban Innovation Framework.
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Belfast City Council has proposed the development of a new Smart District to harness digital innovation and support the transformation of the city centre.
The Smart District is one of several initiatives in the council's new Smart Belfast Urban Innovation Framework. The aim of the framework is to encourage city partners to adopt powerful tools from the digital world, together with research from Belfast's universities, to tackle Belfast's major challenges.
Digital technologies are changing our daily experience of public services, much of it for the better.
Over the past few decades, government departments have migrated information and forms from paper onto a screen, with numerous benefits. HM Revenue and Customs, for example, can celebrate over 20 fun-packed years of online tax returns, from just 38,000 filed in 2001 to around 11 million in 2022.
Read more: GB: Renewing ambition for government’s digital transformation
The self-driving, zero-emission shuttles will be piloted in Sunderland after receiving £6m in government and industry funding.
The Sunderland Advanced Mobility Shuttle project will trial three self-driving Aurrigo Auto-Shuttles.
A safety driver will be on board the shuttles just in case.