Three Cities Use Smart City Concepts to Improve Transportation

Transportation leaders from San Diego; Columbus, Ohio; and Centennial, Colo., shared how smarter transportation helps to achieve larger regional goals around sustainability, equity and greener urban development.

“Much of the leadership for our smart city initiatives does come from just our desire to be mindful and helpful to mitigating all the impacts around climate change,” said Udrys. “So whether that is the advent of the scooters, and wanting to encourage as much of that as an option for folks to want to get around as possible, because of greenhouse gas emission reductions, or our housing plans, which is about creating density and trying to reduce VMTs [vehicle miles traveled], all of these things are measurable.”