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If Boston Were Smart

BU researchers are studying, designing, and building the technology for a "smarter" city.

Christos Cassandras, Boston University professor and head of the division of systems engineering, talks about the future of traffic control in cities.

August 13, 2014
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Read full story on BostoniaWhen the Daily Beast recently named Boston the country’s smartest metropolitan area, it was referring to the people, not the city itself. But what if the city itself were smart? What if technology could save us time and energy? We talked to BU researchers who are building the kind of technology that could make the city itself a lot smarter than it is.

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