The Living Labs Global Mobility Report

Views on the market for mobility, or those digital services that can really change our lives.

Update, Corporate Cities

Briefly, I wanted to update my last post Corporate Cities.  Since writing, I discovered a couple similar ventures that I thought I’d note here. First is the Philips Livable Cities Award.  Philips wants to promote health and well-being in cities, and they’re doing this by offering 3 grants totaling €125,000.  They’re collecting simple ideas from [...]

Corporate Cities

We are all familiar with the budget troubles facing cities today.  School closures, transit cuts, and staff layoffs are all par for the course.  The housing bubble burst sending the economy into a tailspin; people earned (and spent) less and cities were left without much needed tax revenue. Fortunately, some companies have found this situation [...]

Parking 2.0

At Living Labs Global, we’ve already identified several innovations in the arena of automobile parking.  These cover solutions such as the Municipality of Copenhagen’s text-based parking spot finding system, Estonia’s parking payment solution emt, The Netherland’s RFID-based parking payment system Park-Line, and Spot-Scout, an eBay-like exchange for renting parking spots. Of all the parking solutions [...]

SpectioNZ Converts Waste to Energy

SpectioNZ, a clean tech company based out of Wellington, New Zealand, has developed a process for converting organic waste (like human feces) and plastic into energy.  Currently operating out of the business incubator CreativeHQ, SpectioNZ is testing a trial converter at the Paraparaumu wastewater treatment plant. At the treatment plant, dehydrated waste is mixed with [...]

Cycletracks

In November 2009, the San Francisco County Transportation Authority (SFCTA) unveiled a new app for the iPhone and Android systems called Cycletracks.

Using Cell Phones as Traffic Sensors

UC Berkeley and Nokia researchers used GPS-enabled cell phones to test a technology that could soon transform the way drivers navigate through traffic. Detractors, of course, are concerned about the privacy issues that arise from using GPS technology in cell phones in a pervasive manner. Check out the video below to learn how GPS in [...]

Are We About To Witness A Digital Service Revolution?

The launch of the book ”Connected Cities: Your 256 Billion Euro Dividend” this week in London by Living Labs Global in collaborationwith Design London, heralds how introducing new digital services in cities promises the change the way citzens live in cities around the world.

Showcase Award coverage by German National TV 3sat

3sat neues, a programme covering new technologies on German national television attended the Living Labs Global Showcase Award Ceremony, covering the event and airing interviews with Lluis Recoder, Mayor of Sant Cugat, Sascha Haselmayer, General Director Living Labs Global, and Josep Miquel Pique, CEO of 22@ Barcelona. The coverage celebrated the efforts by Living Labs [...]

Reinventing Detroit

Another gem via Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution: Aaron Renn of the NewGeography.com writes about urban regeneration in Detroit in his article entitled Detroit: Urban Laboratory and the New American Frontier This article is worth reading for the images and metrics alone. And it’s not to be missed, if you’re curious about urban farming movements, [...]

HSR potential in the US

Via Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution, here’s a very good article discussing the potential for high-speed rail development in the US. Most interesting sentence in the article: American Intercity rail service is slower today than it was in the 1940s.

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