A Real-Time Bike-Share Map for the Entire World | The Atlantic Cities
If you use a bike-share system, you likely rely on an app that gives you a real-time distribution of the bikes and empty docks in your area. Oliver O’Brien, a researcher with the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at the University College London, has built a map that does this same thing, simultaneously, for bike-shares all over the world.
Seattle Children’s Hospital turns Big Data into better care
Move Over, Hoverboards: This Bike Lets You Fly | Mashable
A new mode of personal transportation has beat hoverboards to the market: the flying bicycle.
Czech companies Duratec, Technodat and Evektor have created a prototype of a flying electric bicycle. Unlike E.T.’s run-of-the-mill two-wheeler, however, this one looks more like a snow bike.
Underground Bicycle Parking Systems in Japan
Utah Develops Wireless Charging for Buses | ThisBigCity
Breakthroughs in inductive power transfer are promising to transform the prospects for electric buses. In July 2011, the Utah State University (USU) Research Foundation demonstrated a 90% electrical transfer efficiency of 5kW over an air gap of 10 inches. The breakthrough made inductive power transfer viable for buses, potentially minimising pollution in urban centres and saving costs.
The Real Reason Cities Are Centers of Innovation | The Atlantic Cities
It’s obvious from human history that people have long found unique value in living and working in cities, even if for reasons they couldn’t quite articulate. Put people together, and opportunities and ideas and wealth seem to grow at a more powerful rate than a simple sum of all our numbers. This has been intuitively true for centuries of city-dwellers.
“What people didn’t know,” says MIT researcher Wei Pan, “is why.”
Paris and San Francisco renew vows in digital partnership | SmartPlanet
San Francisco and Paris have renewed their vows as digital sister cities as their mayors signed a new agreement dedicated to developing smarter cities. Paris’s mayor Bertrand Delanoë welcomed Californian mayor Ed Lee at City Hall in March to discuss the updates to the existing partnership linking the two innovative cities.
If cities were smarter, then life in cities would be better
IBM Turns Ads Into Useful Urban Furniture | Fast Company
Did you ever need a ramp for your luggage (or bike), or a shelter from a sudden downpour, or a place to sit down and tie your shoe? IBM believes that city life can be awfully inconvenient—and that cities should be designed with the needs of ordinary citizens in mind.
We need to use technology to get smarter about care | The Guardian
Using data can help develop a fuller understanding of individuals and the factors affecting their social and physical health
