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SMART CITIES

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EUREKA PARK

Wisdom
via partnerships
By Gary Arlen

SMART
CITIES
BY THE TIME OF CES 2025, LAS VEGAS

will officially be "smart." In a $500
million, seven-year plan, the city has
begun a massive process involving
connected cameras, sensors and big
data analytics to manage traffic,
environment, crowds, transit, lighting, waste management security and
parking. Like many smart cities ventures, the Las Vegas initiative is first
focusing on - what else? - traffic
that affects its 42 million yearly visitors as well as the 2.2 million residents of the Las Vegas valley.
Michael Sherwood, the City of Las
Vegas chief information officer,
expects that the traffic data will be
used to prepare for self-driving vehicles, including recommending trucking routes in and out of the city.
But no need to wait seven years.
Smart cities were high on the agenda
at CES 2018, offering a glimpse

Jim Hackett

President and CEO
Ford Motor Company
KEYNOTE:
Mobility Solutions and the
Move Towards Smarter Cities

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To illustrate their Transportation
Mobility Cloud, Ford built a small city
of its own at CES, first as a two-dimensional background to Ford President
and CEO Jim Hackett's keynote, then
as the actual city of the future at the
Ford booth in the North Hall.

of the accelerating movement
toward bringing Internet of Things
and related technologies to the
everyday challenges of urban life.
Technology developers uniformly
agree that public and private partnerships will be needed (and are
underway) to achieve the promises
of better lifestyles.
Around the world, more than
$34 billion will be spent to create
smart cities by 2020, according to
CTA market research. CTA predicts
that there will be at least 88 smart

ON SMART CITIES:

"How do we combine vehicles and
technologies so they become more than
the sum of their parts and redesign the
surface transportation systems so that
it's designed around communities?"

cities worldwide by 2025. The value
of enhanced, efficient services is
underscored by a United Nations
report which expects that twothirds of the world's population will
live in cities by 2050 (up from half
today and one-third 55 years ago).
Since the core technologies for
smart cities, like sensors, imaging,
lighting, energy generation, vehicle
technology and intelligent data
management, represent the
strengths of CES exhibitors, many of
them see a role in creating smart city

Elaine Chao

U.S. Secretary of Transportation
Department of Transportation
KEYNOTE:
A Conversation on
Transportation in the U.S.

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