The Dark Side of Data-Based Transportation Planning
The quantitative data that’s available is far too limited, and likely to lead us to the wrong conclusions. Reliance on data to solve complex problems
The quantitative data that’s available is far too limited, and likely to lead us to the wrong conclusions. Reliance on data to solve complex problems
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Cities from Amsterdam to Adelaide, from Boston to Bangalore, and San Francisco to Seoul are teaming up with big businesses like IBM, Siemens, Cisco, GE,
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SAN FRANCISCO — Federal technologists, change makers and academics joined the city in a ribbon cutting ceremony on July 14 for Superpublic, San Francisco’s new
It is perhaps unsurprising that there is growing awareness of the political nature of open data policies. It is only by ignoring the messy reality
Getting from A to B has been one of humanity’s great preoccupations throughout history. New methods of transport are constantly being developed to get people
In the face of a populace set to break nine billion by 2050, people from across the world – from smallholder farmers in Asia to
Car navigation systems that can predict where and when traffic jams might occur, by siphoning data from sensors in roads and other vehicles. Cameras that
Those vacation photos you view with envy on social media typically capture what a city looks like. But with a bit of research and an
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