Smart traffic lights or Intelligent traffic lights are a vehicle traffic control system that combines traditional traffic lights with an array of sensors and artificial intelligence…

Signal 1: Real life Lego- Stacked buildings via Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction (PPVC)

Signal 1: Sentiment Analysis and The City

With a majority of the world's population residing in cities, the data generated by its…

Signal 1: Does the dockless bike-share system work?

Creating Sustainable Cities and Communities

City is a general concept combined with commerce, culture, science, productivity, social development and much more. With the number of people living in cities projected to rise to 5 billion people by 2030, it’s important that efficient urban planning and…

Toronto’s system designed to help visually impaired needs a rework

Signal 1: Istanbul’s Crazy Project — Canal Istanbul

Signal 1 — NYC School Lunches

City school districts have roughly “$1.25 per head (after labor and equipment costs)” to feed students…

Signal 1: Blockchain based Digital Voting System

data collected on mobiles without permission

Context: Using tools to monitor network traffic, researchers found 24 popular iPhone apps that were collecting location data — like Bluetooth beacons to Wi-Fi network names — to know where a person is and where they visit. These data monetization firms…

Recursive Crowds

Websites that revolve around crowd sourcing can reveal stories of neighborhoods, one such story is when a group of Harvard…

Signal 1: Apply Analytics to Regulate NYC Rental Market

In 2017, the NYC Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics (MODA) started to use data analytics to fight the outrageously high prices and income discrimination that existed in New York City rental market.

Signal 1: Has the generation of autonomous vehicle arrived?

The Autonomous car will change our future transportation and lifestyle.

Signal 1 : Data Science for Vision Zero

Traffic accidents in cities are a hindrance to safe transportation in cities. With the advent of urban science, cities are looking for new approaches to improve road safety. New York City Department of Transportation collaborated with DataKind and Microsoft as part of Vision Zero to…

Signal 1: Prevention of Adverse Interaction between Police Officers and Citizens using Machine Learning

Adverse interaction between police officers and the public has become a sensitive issue in recent times. Recurring events like fatal shootings of unarmed…

Signal 1: The Latest in Commitment-free Living: Car Subscriptions

Startup Carma is offering up a new idea: car subscriptions. Subscribers select from a variety of cars, sourced from a local dealership, and pay a monthly fee that includes insurance and maintenance. Aimed at…

Signal 1: What Artificial Intelligence Reveals About Urban Change

Hamsterdam 2.0: Safe injections sites in cities can mitigate the social costs of the opioid crisis

Buses For The Win

Mexico City has a bus rapid-transit system (BRT) that uses dedicated bus lanes and stations/platforms to deliver mass transit, with up to 500 million passengers annually. It has reduced commute times by 33% and CO2 emissions by 35,000 metric tonnes annually. The system is designed to deliver service quality…

Signal 1: Death Industry’s Adaptation to City Space

Cemeteries has always been a hindrance to city development and urbanization: With little land available in developing areas, cemeteries take up too much space, and are not profitable in city centers. For that reason, in the past, cities…