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As part of my quest to understand the electric car revolution better I have been talking to people about their thoughts on EVs and reading up on developments in this area of transport innovation. It seems that there is a great deal of concern about battery life and recharging time, which makes sense. People are usedContinueContinue reading “Can EV Transport Spark a Rural Renewal?”

I love taking the bus. I think I’ve mentioned that before. When my bus pulls up I board the way some people get in a limo. And if the bus is new and there is a seat for me, my happiness quotient in transit is optimal. I don’t deny that maybe I love the freedomContinueContinue reading “Sustainable Transport in the United States”

I have lived in some pretty “unsmart” cities. Cars were the only transportation I knew for most of my life before University and my mother was only person I knew who recycled on a regular basis. And that did not apply to most of the materials that we have since learned to put in theContinueContinue reading “K-Cities: A Model for Smart City Development”

Recently the richest man in the world was on the comedy show Saturday Night Live. Before he appeared there was a lot of talk about it being a questionable choice because he has said and done some controversial things in the past few years. In his opening monologue he tried to address these issues by statingContinueContinue reading “SNL and Inclusive Design”

I love Madrid. I always have. Madrid to me is like New York is to Carrie Bradshaw. Sometimes I just like to wander the avenues and visit museums, stop off at a bar for a coffee or a Vichy Catalan. When I first visited Madrid it was a few years after the first AVE wasContinueContinue reading “Smart Cities and Public Finance”

As we start to look at restarting face-to-face interaction in the world again, we are starting to take stock of the developments from the pandemic that we want to keep in our post-pandemic lives. Let’s keep the bicycles and the scooters and the evening walks. Let’s also keep flexibility in the workplace, allowing people toContinueContinue reading “A Tool for Inclusive Learning”

The Biden administration opened yesterday’s climate summit with a pledge to cut emissions by 50%, based on 2005 levels. This is a huge undertaking and necessitates the activation of smart city strategy. We know that transportation is the greatest source of pollution in the United States. According the the EPA, 28% of all US greenhouseContinueContinue reading “Public Transport Revolution!”

So we are in this now. Finally, we are going to update the infrastructure in the United States. A plan has been unveiled and discussions have begun. It seems that there is a lot of focus on how big the bill will be and how we will pay for these necessary improvements but, as aContinueContinue reading “Our “Once in a Generation” Opportunity”

I talk a lot about inclusiveness – inclusive cities, inclusive transport, inclusive societies, etc. Inclusivity is a theme in my life and yet already twice in the last week I got the feeling that I don’t think enough about inclusiveness. When I think about current efforts to create cities for all, I think about waysContinueContinue reading “Diversity and Inclusiveness in Smart Cities”

I recently had an article published in the Smart City Global Journal 2021 organized and published by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of the Republic of Korea (MOLIT) and the Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement about smart transport in the post COVID-19 world. It was really a wonder opportunity to think aboutContinueContinue reading “Smart Transport in the Post COVID-19 World”