City Tech Winter 2020 Update
Winter in the Midwest always feels like a season of waiting…but for cities, the coming months will be extraordinarily expectant.
Amid punishing illness, angst, and loss at the hands of COVID-19, recent vaccine approvals offer light at the end of the tunnel. Nonetheless, we still face a ghastly winter ( and likely longer
) before desperately needed immunity becomes reality.
Many who care about cities have high hopes for a Biden Administration that should prove more supportive of the nearly 100 million US residents who live in cities larger than 100,000 people ( US Census Bureau
). A changing of the guard, however, is unlikely to bring immediate urban relief. Hope is in sight, but it’s still far off on the horizon.
But City Tech keeps working through the wait…
City Tech and our partners spent 2020 demonstrating how technology unlocks opportunities
to improve the way we navigate
and manage resources and public spaces
during the pandemic, and we’re looking beyond COVID to a brighter future for public transit
, infrastructure,
and health.
With new solution partners Engineering USA, Level-1, and Vapor IO, new thought leadership partnerships with the Chicago Architecture Center
and CityAge, and an ecosystem
that now includes more than 100 members, strategic partners, and solution participants, City Tech looks to 2021 with clear eyes and cautious optimism.
Warm holiday wishes to you and yours,
City Tech Collaborative
P.S. Looking for additional 2020 highlights? Click here for City Tech’s spring
, summer
, and fall
updates!
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City Tech Wins 19th Annual Chicago Innovation Awards
City Tech was honored among 23 winners of this year's Chicago Innovation Awards. Selected from 272 nominees, City Tech received the Wintrust Chicago Neighborhood Award in recognition of the Chicago Health Atlas.
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Millennium Gateway Testbed Challenge
Calling all mobility innovators, artists, and built environment visionaries! Submit your tech, product, service, or design for a chance to test your idea in the largest underground parking system in North America.
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“Smart” Isn’t Good Enough
Too many urban tech solutions focus on flashy widgets while overlooking the underlying capabilities that often make or break their usability, maintainability, and ability to evolve over time. Instead, City Tech and Intel are using foundational technologies to enable faster and more scalable solutions to urban challenges.
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Continuing the Map from Outdoor to Indoor Spaces
How do you navigate a space the size of 660 football fields? With a map, of course. We’re working with HERE Technologies to map the inside of Millennium Garages to make navigation easier for visitors as well as lay the groundwork for scalable parking innovations.
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City Tech’s Method to Meaningful Work: Racial Equity & Inclusion in Solution Development
City Tech reimagines cities as places where technology fuels innovation, inclusion, and engagement for all. We recently formalized this belief by adopting a racial equity and inclusion curriculum for our team and developing a process and tool to strengthen racial equity throughout our work.
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Finding a Space of Your Own...Together
Would you decide to visit a different park if you knew your favorite picnic spots were already taken? Or take a different bus route so you can get seat on your way to work? We’re developing new solutions to help manage shared urban spaces during COVID and beyond.
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What Will U.S. “Mass Transit” Look Like Post-COVID?
National Express and City Tech explore how demand forecasting can improve transit services by addressing both operational challenges while also setting the stage for modular and on-demand transit routing.
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How KnowYourVote Is Helping Make Every Voter an Informed Voter
In August 2019, City Tech shared an early survey about KnowYourVote with Civic User Testing group participants. Read more from Forbes to learn about KnowYourVote’s origin, the platform's status today, and how it is helping voters understand the issues and candidates' stances.
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Survey Results: Tech is More Important Than Ever, & Most Parking Companies Aren't Up to the Challenge.
This fall, City Tech and National Parking Association conducted a first-of-its-kind survey on parking technology to identify challenges, barriers, and pathways to smart, profitable innovation. See the results of the 2020 Parking Technology & Innovation Survey and learn how industry leaders and looking forward.
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Tech to the Rescue
City Tech's CEO Brenna Berman spoke with Crain's Chicago Business to discuss how technology unlocks opportunities to improve the way we manage resources and public spaces during the pandemic.
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Video Recap- Reinventing Cities: Trends, Challenges, and the Role of Mobility Services
City Tech’s David Leopold joined the International Parking & Mobility Institute's Virtual Leadership Summit in October 2020. Watch the video session to put your finger on the pulse of current challenges, business opportunities, and the next wave of mobility innovation.
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