Throughout 2023, the City of Amsterdam conducted several experiments around car free zones and new slower streets inside the city. Environmental sensors are helping measure the improvements. See the live data here
There are fascinating stories behind each date and data set summarizing activities on the Marineterrein like the amount of people in the picnic area, swimmers in icy water and athletes in the rain.
“Darkstores” are unmarked warehouses in residential areas. Consumers place their order with Flash Delivery startups who use fast ebikes to deliver your order in 10min create new urban dilemmas for cities
PublicEye is the world's first privacy by design crowd counting system that can accurately count people in public space. This open source AI was developed for UEFA Cup 2020 playoffs.
In 2018, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences together with it’s regional innovation partners launched an ambitious initiative entitled Campus Amsterdam aiming to connect all campuses, labs and innovation districts in the Amsterdam metropolitan area. The initiative provides entrepreneurs, researchers and students from around the world with one entrance to the region's wealth of innovation, knowledge and education.
To help Boston develop a vision and plan to activate vacant City properties, Boston City Council and Wentworth Institute of Technology (and other local industry leaders) organized a high-impact event, to learn from the Dutch experience and develop a series of strategies that will identify and analyze underutilized or blighted properties in Boston’s Dorchester and Mattapan neighborhoods and develop short-term solutions to address the issue.
