Read about this in the Victoria Transport Policy Institute’s email:

Connected Urban Development (CUD) is a partnership between Cisco and cities around the world to create urban communications infrastructures that demonstrate how network connectivity can reduce carbon emissions in urban environments. By using network connectivity for communication, collaboration, urban planning, and other activities, CUD will help change the way in which cities do the following:

* Deliver services to residents
* Manage the flow of traffic
* Operate public transportation
* Use and manage real estate resources

Changing the way cities operate has a positive impact on the ways in which citizens work, live, and play…

Wish we were doing it here in Cleveland…

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