The City Innovate Summit

1 Hour Panel:

Vision Zero is about ending traffic deaths and injuries on cities' streets since a livable and a sustainable city needs to be safe for walking, biking and taking public transit. But making Vision Zero a reality is a challenging task. How has culture and media affected policy changes in the past, and how might imaginative use of contemporary media inform the traffic vision task?  In this hour, experts discuss best practices on the 3 E’s of Vision Zero: engineering, education and enforcement, and key steps cities need to take to get there. 

1 Hour Panel:

Shared mobility services have taken off in numerous cities as a complement and an alternative to traditional modes of urban transportation. However, their growing adoption depends on an effective management of supply of shared services. This panel explores short term and long-term challenges of this emerging field such as:

• Governance of citizen data: should this data be shared…if so how?
• Customer access and equity: how do we address the problem of exclusion of those without credit cards or smart phones?
• Integration: how should we integrate customer information from different platforms and make sure they work together?
• Scalability: how do we optimize street space
• Partnerships: how we spark the interest of investors who are investing millions in Uber and Lyft but not in bike sharing and scooter sharing services?

1 Hour Fireside Chat:

With new technologies being developed, the future of urban mobility could look radically different from today. In this fireside chat, we will hear some of world’s greatest mobility visionaries speak about what is possible and those on the ground, speaking about what is practical today.

1 Hour Panel:

Increased urbanization is making cities denser, bringing a wave of challenges in how demand for street space should be managed. At the same time real-time traffic information streaming from smartphones consumer mapping applications and city sensing systems provide insight options never before available.

In this hour, we will hear experts talking about

• Congestion pricing: Why don't the most congested cities have congested pricing? What is needed to try it out?

• Traffic data partnerships, and how real-time information and consumer applications are changing the urban traffic management enterprise..

• Parking management: How we address the issue of lack of parking space?

• Managing lanes: How can we better manage the flow of traffic on existing roads?

• Nudging policies: How can we best nudge citizens into adopting more sustainable mobility behaviors?

Without significant Infra Structure investments in the last 2/3 decades the city has put in place a comprehensive Plan where Technology plays a fundamental role.

After six years of intensive activity most of that Infra Structure has been reshaped by a mult-billion dollar effort coordinated by Mr Marcio Lacerda’s administration.

The Integration of key sectors of the Administration towards a more effective decision making process is a very complex, continuous and evolving target.

Despite all the efforts and investment, networks overhaul and expansion, an Operations Center setup, etc… it seems the challenge will remain while all the Software-Systems cannot interact more intelligently providing live dashboards, helping people to act and better balance resources x demand.

How to build up such a solution and how to combine other cities experiences in order to shortcut the next steps to be taken by our city is the core of our endeavour.