Designing an Intelligent Urban Ecosystem
BU leads collaboration to make public services “smarter” by Rich Barlow (BU Today) BU faculty, with help from business and government partners, will develop cloud computing–based services and products to solve urban problems ranging from traffic congestion to dirty air with a grant from the National Science Foundation(NSF). The effort, called SCOPE (Smart-city Cloud-based Open Platform […]
Reducing Highway Congestion thru Software
Belta to Co-Lead $1 Million Study Traffic congestion is a waste not only of time, but also of energy and money. In 2011, it caused Americans in metropolitan areas to spend 5.5 billion extra hours on the road and pump 2.9 billion extra gallons of fuel into their gas tanks, with associated costs reaching $121 […]