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InnoTrans is a trade fair specialising in all things Smart Transport. It will run from 18 to 21 September 2018, and will extend across the entire Berlin exhibition grounds, occupying an area of 200 000 m² gross. In order to ensure that exhibitors and trade visitors are able to keep their bearings, InnoTrans is sub-dividedRead more

QROWD will participate in Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona 2018 with an Elevator Pitch: A smart solution to calculate the Modal Split – the case of Trento The city of Trento, currently participating in the QROWD project, has continuously ranked high since 2014, when it was selected as an IEEE core smart city.Read more

In recent news it has been announced that an international collaboration between the IOTA Foundation and the International Transportation Innovation Center (ITIC) is promising to spark smart mobility on a global scale. The companies postulate that this will build a global alliance of smart mobility testbeds based on open source protocols and the IOTA dataRead more

The second round of the QROWDLab will be running from Monday 28 May until June 7. During this period, QROWD will be acquiring information on mobility in the city of Trento, with the help of i-Log, an app developed by the University of Trento that allows gathering data by the citizens themselves. Participants in the QROWDLab will inform of their displacements aroundRead more

Go Ahead London are a company that provide nearly a quarter of London’s buses. According to the group, their vehicles travel over 80 million miles annually, and employ more than 7600 staff across various sites within the city. The company have a history of innovation, and have recently become one of the front runners forRead more

TSCW18 – Trento Smart City Week 2018 – was organized by the Municipality of Trento in collaboration with other local institutional partners to disseminate information about Trento as a Smart City: smart solutions, smart citizens, smart land and smart people. Being one of the innovation projects in Trento financed by the EC, the QROWD projectRead more

In a recent interview, Professor Elena Simperl, director of the QROWD project, outlined the objectives of the EU programme. She explained that, ultimately, the project will make transport in its various forms smarter. This will be done through improving the quality of available services that different transport operators offer to citizens, having better tools andRead more

Since the beginning of 2018 there have been a plethora of transport and technological developments across the EU, but also the wider world. For example, the Sydney metro in Australia has been the first city in the country to implement a fully automated metro system as a result of a 5.2 billion euro project. TheRead more

In a recent interview the director of the QROWD project, Professor Elena Simperl, states that the goal of the project is ultimately to make transport in its various forms smarter. She goes on to explain that by making transport “smarter” she means improving the quality of available services that different transport operators offer to citizens,Read more

Fast tracking Smart transport in Smart cities Could the future of smart transport in the world’s smartest cities rise into the air? This was the innovative focus of discussions hosted by the UK government’s innovation agency – InnovateUK – with the Australia Trade and Investment Commission recently.Read more