EU Transition Towards Green and Smart Mobility: Action Toolbox to Unleash Innovation Potentials is a report that was used to provide input for discussion at the informal EU inter-ministerial meeting of Ministers of transport and environment in Amsterdam on April 14, 2016. Continue reading
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The report Smart mobility: Reducing congestion and fostering faster, greener, and cheaper transportation options, written by Deloitte, focuses on the investigation of the promises of smart mobility framework. The main goal of this study is to reveal the benefits of the implementation of expanded metropolitan mobility ecosystems, based on a data-driven exploration. Continue reading
This policy paper written by POLIS Network (Cities and regions networking for innovative transport solutions) aims at illustrating ways in which the role of transport systems and urban mobility policies could be enhanced within the Smart City context. Continue reading
European Commission just released the 2016 European Digital Progress Report, in which an unequal progress towards the Digital Single Market is observed. More specifically, Member States seem to be at very different stages of development regarding the digital economy. Continue reading
Innovation Analytics: A guide to new data and measurement in innovation policy is a report published by Nesta, focusing on novel ways to make use of official data. This will gradually help to explore and better understand various sectors regarding innovation policy, while at the same time overcome challenges arising from the use of that kind of data. Continue reading
The Journal of Smart Cities published the special issue “Smart Cities and Cloud Computing’. Guest editors are: Christina Kakderi, Nicos Komninos, and P. Tsarchopoulos, researchers at URENIO Research. The Special Issue “Smart Cities and Cloud Computing’ of the Journal of Smart Cities focuses on smart city solutions that are deployed over various types of cloud environment and discuss challenges and solutions related to the use of cloud computing, and mainly the migration of smart city services to the Cloud.
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This report is published by the European Data Portal, in order to investigate and present the benefits arising from the use of Open Data in the case of local governments and their citizens. This report assesses eight cities in terms of Open Data initiatives: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Copenhagen, London, Paris, Stockholm and Vienna.
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