The Atlanta Department of City Planning recently announced that the city of Atlanta is one of 22 communities selected to participate in the second cohort of the Transportation for America (T4America) Smart Cities Collaborative program, according to a press release. The Smart Cities Collaborative program will bring together multiple cities to collaborate on challenges related to implementing smart mobility policies and projects and to explore how emerging technologies and new mobility options can improve urban transportation.
Over the course of the year, members of the Department of City Planning will join other city agencies to tackle how emerging technologies and new mobility options are reshaping the use of the right-of-way and curb space, and to ensure people move safely and efficiently throughout the city.
The city of Atlanta was selected from a group of 50 cities that applied to be a part of the Collaborative this year. The inaugural cohort of cities tackled challenges related to automated vehicles, shared mobility and how to use data to manage complex transportation networks.
The collaborative will hold its first meeting on April 16-17 in Denver. Throughout the year Atlanta will participate in a variety of interactive workshops, both with the other cities and with industry-leading transportation experts. The participants will then receive direct technical assistance and share the results of their projects with the rest of the collaborative to drive best practices across the country.
The full list of 22 communities participating in the Collaborative in 2018 are:
Atlanta, Austin, Boulder, Colo., Centennial, Colo., Gainesville, Fla., Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Madison, Wisc., Miami-Dade, Fla., Minneapolis, New York, Pittsburgh, Portland, Ore., San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Monica, Seattle, Toronto, Ontario, Washington, DC and West Sacramento, Calif.
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