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Smart Cities Collaborative Application |
Thank you for your interest in joining Transportation for America’s Smart Cities Collaborative, a recently launched network focused on how technology can meet cities’ pressing transportation and mobility challenges. The collaborative is focused on the development and implementation of smart cities principles, policies, and projects to help solve urban transportation challenges.
T4America will also be helping cities begin to define and design the “connected streets” of the future. Just as the popular Complete Streets approach gives leaders a framework for making streets safer for everyone, “connected streets” outlines tech-enabled interventions that can help create a truly balanced, multimodal approach to urban transportation that expands access to opportunity and improves quality of life for all residents.
The collaborative will be arranged in working groups focused around specific technical and topical areas. This structure will allow us to provide technical assistance and use the working groups to expand that assistance to each of its members.
T4America will also be helping cities begin to define and design the “connected streets” of the future. Just as the popular Complete Streets approach gives leaders a framework for making streets safer for everyone, “connected streets” outlines tech-enabled interventions that can help create a truly balanced, multimodal approach to urban transportation that expands access to opportunity and improves quality of life for all residents.
The collaborative will be arranged in working groups focused around specific technical and topical areas. This structure will allow us to provide technical assistance and use the working groups to expand that assistance to each of its members.
The following working groups are under consideration:
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Community Engagement
- Congestion Pricing
- Consumer Facing Mobility Applications
- Data Analytics Platforms
- Electrification
- Equity: the Unbanked & Digitally Disconnected
- First Mile / Last Mile
- Freight / Urban Delivery
- Parking
- Public/Private Partnerships
- Shared Mobility & TNCs
- Government Structures, Processes & Procurement
- Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I)
To apply for membership, applicants must identify which working group(s) they’d be interested in joining or leading and describe at least one project they’re committing to working on that is either in progress or would like to begin in the next six months. Applicants must sign-on and also commit to participating as a member of the Smart Cities Collaborative and engaging through workshops, cross-city collaboration, and other knowledge sharing activities. There will be a nominal fee associated with participating in the collaborative that will go directly to funding travel and workshop expenses.
Applicants need to complete the State of the Smart City benchmarking survey as well. The survey will be used to get a better sense of the overall technology and mobility challenges cities are facing across the country, the problems cities are most interested in tackling, and guide where our technical assistance can be most effective. Click here to complete the "State of the Smart City" survey: http://bit.ly/T4ASCCBS
Please email any questions to smartcities@t4america.org. Applications must be submitted by a government official on behalf of a city, county or MPO. Project specific partnerships may consist of more than one city per project, but all partners should be from the same region.
Please complete the application by August 31.
Thanks,
T4America