News Archive

Georgia Tech Hosts Beyond Smart Symposium
Interdisciplinary scholars from around the world gathered in Tech Square on April 25 and 26 for the Beyond Smart Symposium. They reflected on issues of researching smart city deployments and projects...
Georgia Smart Hosts Community Growth Workshop
A day-long workshop at the GTRI Conference Center in Midtown brought together local governments, government associations, industry, and academia to explore potential smart community initiatives as...
Data-Driven Policing
In an effort to reduce police officer response times to calls for assistance, Georgia Tech and the Atlanta Police Department partnered on a year-long project to reconfigure patrol areas across the...
Chamblee Explores Development of a Shared Autonomous Shuttle
The history of the City of Chamblee, incorporated in 1908, is closely linked with the development and use of modern transportation in the United States. In the early 20th century, the city sat at the...
Making the Case for Urban Air Mobility in Atlanta
If you think Atlanta traffic is bad now, a recent UN study predicts that 70 percent of the world’s population will be living in urban areas by 2050. That’s a lot of cars on the roads come 5 o...
Hot Cities 2050

What will happen when our cities are too hot to control and live in, can we manage? Researchers, city officials, entrepreneurs, industry specialists, and journalists from across the country gathered...

The Promise and Peril of Driverless Cars
What will the world look like when we’re no longer in the driver’s seat? Researchers, city officials, entrepreneurs, and journalists from across the country gathered at Georgia Tech on December 12 to...
Georgia Healthy Cities, a Neighborhood Nexus project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s 500 Cities Data Challenge grant, hosted the first of four workshops about community-level health and...
Ellen Dunham-Jones, Professor, School of Architecture; Director, Urban Design Program, Georgia Institute of Technology Heaven or Hell? The Impact of Autonomous Vehicles on Urban Form On November 8th...
Georgia Tech’s CEE and Smart Cities & Inclusive Innovation Host Smart City Digital Twin Summit
On Friday, November 2, Georgia Tech’s School of Civil & Environmental Engineering along with the Smart Cities and Inclusive Innovation Initiative hosted a day long Smart City Digital Twin Summit on...
City of Albany and GA Smart Host Engagement Workshop
On Tuesday, October 30, the City of Albany, along with a team from Georgia Tech hosted a day-long engagement workshop in Albany as part of the Georgia Smart Communities Challenge. In June of 2018...
Introducing Georgia Tech’s Civic Data Science Program
The Civic Data Science program at Georgia Tech is an NSF REU site that supports a 10-week immersive research experience for undergraduate students interested in contributing to the developing field of...
Q&A with Amen Ra Mashariki, Urban Analytics Lead, ESRI
SCII: Tell us a little about yourself. Mashariki: I am currently the head of Urban Analytics at ESRI. My B.S., M.S., and doctorate are in computer science, and using that background my first fore ray...
Georgia Tech Hosts GA PSC Smart Cities Roundtable and North Avenue Smart Corridor Tour
Georgia Tech’s Smart Cities and Inclusive Innovation Initiative was excited to host the GA Public Service Commission’s Smart Cities Roundtable and North Avenue Smart Corridor Tour on Friday, September...
Ga Tech’s Smart Cities Initiative Hosts Post-Carbon Cities of Tomorrow Roundtable
On Tuesday, September 18th, Georgia Tech’s Smart Cites and Inclusive Innovation hosted a “Rounding the Pillars of the Circular Economy – Post Carbon Cities of Tomorrow” Roundtable sponsored by the...
Georgia Smart Hosts Fall Workshop
Georgia Smart hosted over 85 local government representatives, academic researchers, and industry representatives at the Georgia Tech Research Institute Conference Center for their Fall GA Smart...
Lifting Communities with Smart Technology
Georgia Smart Communities Challenge helps small and large cities improve quality of life.
Four Communities Selected for Inaugural Georgia Smart Communities Challenge
Albany, Chamblee, Chatham County and Gwinnett County will implement smart development through a Georgia Tech-led program.
Smart Cities hosts Smart Installations Meeting
On Tuesday, May 22, Georgia Tech Smart Cities and Inclusive Innovation hosted a Smart Cities/Smart Installations meeting at the Weber Building’s ASDL CoVE conference facilities. The event brought...
Leadership Atlanta announced Tuesday it's named 89 metro community leaders to its class of 2019, including Debra Lam of Georgia Tech's Smart Cities and Inclusive Innovation initiative.
Georgia Smart Communities Challenge Hosts Workshop/Expo
Georgia Tech hosted local government representatives at a workshop and expo for the Georgia Smart Communities Challenge (GA Smart), Monday April 9th, 2018 at the Georgia Tech Research Institute...
Latest Mayor’s Leadership Forum Focuses on Smart Community Planning
For a second time, Georgia Tech and the Georgia Municipal Association hosted the Georgia Mayor’s Leadership Forum for Smart Cities and Inclusive Innovation. While the first forum in November focused...
The program will join governments, industry and researchers from across the state and award up to $50,000 in direct funding for each winning project. Read the full story at statescoop.com
Renew Atlanta Receives ACEC National Award for North Avenue Smart Corridor
The Renew Atlanta Bond program has earned national recognition in the American Council of Engineering Companies’ (ACEC) 2018 Engineering Excellence Awards (EEA) competition – also known as the...
IPaT Executive Director Participates in Congressional Briefing on Intelligent Infrastructure Research
On January 30, Elizabeth Mynatt, distinguished professor and executive director of the Institute for People and Technology at Georgia Tech, co-organized and presented at a U.S. congressional briefing...