- June 23, 2022
- Infrastructure
This page is a resource for cities in the Working Group for Digital Infrastructure, Equity, and Sustainability, supported by the Knight Foundation. This page indexes and highlights replicable innovations and emerging best practices in critical areas of smart infrastructure and cross-cutting issues of equity, sustainability, and community engagement, and how to incorporate these themes when crafting city policy.
Equity
- Advancing Equity Through the American Rescue Plan
- Equity in Urban Improvements: Oakland's Great Pave
- The American Rescue Plan Act: Promoting Equity through ARPA Implementation
- Building Back Fairly: Gender Equity and Public Transit
- Assessing the U.S. Treasury Department's Allocations of Funding for Tribal Governments under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
- Recommendations for the Allocation and Administration of American Rescue Plan Act Funding for American Indian Tribal Governments
Community Engagement
- Community Engagement in Smart City Development
- The Critics Agree: Citizen Engagement is Key
- CityScopeAR: Urban Design and Crowdsourced Engagement Platform
- Seeing the Future: Harnessing the Power of Virtual Reality for Community Engagement
- Community Engagement During COVID-19
- CityScopeAR: Urban Design and Crowdsourced Engagement Platform
- Civocracy in Action
- Participatory Design of Community Spaces using Virtual Reality
Intersection Safety
- Solution Search: Citizen Submitted Traffic Violations
- Technology to Make Signalized Intersections Safer for Pedestrians with Disabilities
- Bellevue Expands, Adds Traffic Safety Tools Downtown
- Technology Trends to Increase Pedestrian and Cyclist Safety
- How Traffic Data Can Reduce Cyclist, Pedestrian Deaths
- Understanding Pedestrian Activity Through Data to Improve Pedestrian Safety at the Intersection
- Practical Ways to Reverse the Trajectory of Fatalities by Red-Light Running
Sensors for Air Monitoring and Preemptive Action
- Denver's Love My Air initiative
- The Environmental Protection Agency's Air Sensor Toolbox
- Chicago's Air Quality and Health work
- Airscapes Singapore - MIT Senseable City Lab
Sensors for Water Monitoring and Preemptive Action
- Lead Line Replacement Priorities in Malden, MA
- Denver Water’s Lead Service Line Replacement
- IoT Pilots Deliver Smart-City Capabilities for San Antonio
Sustainable Materials and Safe Construction
- The Role of Digital Infrastructure: Preparing Georgia's Highways for the Future
- The Data-Smart City Pod: The Highway of the Future is in Georgia
- Sensors Tell Construction Crews Exactly How Long to Let Concrete Cure
- Five Cities that are Investing in Green Mobility
- The Data-Smart City Pod: Building Back Better with Intelligent Infrastructure
