Smart Cities
CISE Students Win CSS TC 2024 Outstanding Student Paper Prize
The committee for the Outstanding Student Paper Prize 2024 announced this year’s prestigious award recipients. Among six national nominations, one paper written by two CISE students stood out for its innovative contributions to the field of smart cities. Ehsan Sabouni and H.M. Sabbir Ahmad and their collaborators are exemplars of academic excellence and collaborative spirit. […]
Lucy Hutyra: Analyzing Human Land Use to Fight Climate Change
BU Today featured CISE Affiliate Professor Lucy Hutyra (CAS Earth and Environment) in an article about BU professors fighting climate change through their research. Hutyra, along with the 12 other professors, uses a variety of resources, methods, and focuses to identify how marginalized communities are more at risk to feel the effects of climate change. […]
Creating Safe, Energy-Efficient Buildings in a Post-Covid World
Smart building technology has been a growing trend in the commercial real estate sector to help building owners and other stakeholders automate processes, reduce costs, boost energy efficiency, and improve the comfort of tenants. In a post-covid world, its adoption is expected to increase as safety amenities top the list of concerns of tenants planning […]
Prof. Lucy Hutyra studying the effect of Methane and COVID-19
CISE Faculty Affiliate and Professor Lucy Hutyra (CAS- Earth & Environment) is working to expand her research into the effect of methane levels in cities, and specifically understanding methane changes in cities affected by COVID-19. Her research interests include studying methane emissions from cities, and how these emissions levels have been affected by the ongoing […]
Advancing Smart Cities with the Internet of Cars
Quicker, Safer and Greener Intersections Intersections with Dynamic Traffic Control In road transport engineering, an intersection is defined as at-grade junction where two or more roads or streets meet or cross. Statistically, it has been evidenced that intersections present a major hurdle in traffic control as they account for the lion’s share of accidents and of […]
No, it’s Not Your Imagination, the Air in Boston is Cleaner
A massive reduction in rush hour traffic has reduced carbon and nitrogen emissions in Boston. Photo by Above Summit for Boston University Photography AIR POLLUTION & COVID-19 BU researchers say emissions went down almost instantly, amidst the coronavirus pandemic, after Governor Baker issued a statewide stay-at-home advisory Since last month, as daily commuters and city […]
A Comprehensive Regional Framework for Sustainability
Many U.S. cities are simultaneously confronting two interrelated, but tragically siloed issues: environmental impact and access to affordable housing. Central to both is sound land use policy. Where people live, what people build, and what people keep or make green matters not just to a neighborhood, but to the nation. Cities have a responsibility to […]
BU Initiatives on Cities – Beyond Congestion: Pathways to Better Mobility
On Tuesday March 26, panelists discussed how current transportation networks within major cities do not operate efficiently and future technology will serve a key role in incentivizing change and eliminating congestion. The conversation was initially led by Matthew Raifman, Senior Manager at Ford Smart Mobility. Raifman described congestion as an “excess of vehicles on a portion of […]
New papers by CISE Faculty & Students Featured in Proceedings of the IEEE Special Issue on Smart Cities
Recent UN projections show explosive growth in the urban population, doubling worldwide by 2050. It is clear that cities are on the cusp of disruptive changes. From smart phones and wearable technologies to self-driving cars, navigation apps, and drones, new smart devices that connect people, places and things are being invented every day, radically changing […]
Smart and Connected Communities Workshop: Visioning for Effective Community/University/Industry Collaboration Models
Cities and communities face growing challenges as population size and demographics change, infrastructure ages, and economic and environmental pressures increase. Collaborations among cities and communities, universities, and industry have the potential to address these challenges — providing opportunities for information and communication technology innovations, research capacity building, and workforce growth. This project includes a two-part […]