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AIT Urban Academy training on smart urban development and management
delegation from the Philippines (Makati City Government and Development Academy of the Philippines) to share the knowledge on the smart city concept with a focus on Smart City Vienna Benchmarking, integrated [...] The AIT Urban Academy (Center for Energy, Digital Resilient Cities) is a training focused on smart urban development and management. Professionals and decision makers get deep insights on the latest planning [...] through hands-on workshops and on-site visits. In workshops, they developed future visions for Makati City and discussed needed actions with AIT experts, to make these visions come true. In the end the pa
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Rapid vulnerability analysis for cities
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Rapid vulnerability analysis for cities Project - VESPA Austria's cities are increasingly confronted with the impacts of climate change, which threaten their built, blue, and green infrastructure systems [...] (rapid vulnerability analysis for practical application in cities) has developed a prototype for a rapid vulnerability assessment, providing cities with an evidence-based foundation to evaluate risks and [...] Together with cities, a practical approach to rapid vulnerability analysis was developed. The project was successfully completed at the end of March 2024. It now provides a flexible tool for cities to analyze
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Fit4Food2030 in Bulgaria
future for your city? The interactive session entitled “Sustainable Food Systems for Cities”, is an opportunity to explore selected Research and Innovation (R&I) initiatives within the cities involved in [...] makes them successful. You will also have the chance to network with your peers from others European cities and to learn more about FIT4FOOD2030 and how it supports the implementation of FOOD 2030 [...] food systems through R&I. Finally, the event will celebrate the newest addition to the MUFPP, the city of Plovdiv, in the presence of the Mayor. More information, a draft agenda and a registration link
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AIT at the JPI Urban Europe ENSCC Final Event
ERA-NET Cofund call Smart Cities and Communities (ENSCC), funding agencies (particularly from the ENSCC Steering Committee), stakeholders from cities, representatives from Smart Cities Member States Initiative [...] actors in the JPI Urban Europe community and the Smart Cities Member States Initiative to the ENSCC final event.The ERA-NET Cofund Call Smart Cities and Communities (ENSCC) is coming to an end in 2019 and [...] and stakeholders from cities and business provides an opportunity to learn about results and outcomes from the projects and join a discussion on the potential impacts. A Smart Cities and Communities results
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AIT Project GrazLog receives EL-MO Award
a so-called City Hub, where the delivery and consolidation of goods as well as returns are handled in one. For the first time in Austria, this City Hub will be operated close to the city center and in [...] areas. With the help of a so-called "City Hub", we have created a cooperative logistics concept for the city center of Graz together with our project partners. The "City Hub" is the central hub for the delivery [...] Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Vienna City of Graz, Department of Urban Planning - Department for EU Programs and International Cooperation City of Graz, Department for Transport Planning Holding
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GrazLog receives honor from VCÖ Mobility Award Styria
Award Styria 2021 for the development of a cooperative city logistics model to solve this problem. With the help of a so-called "City Hub", a city logistics center, the delivery of goods and returns are [...] A parked city center, numerous trucks of various sizes with small delivery volumes - this familiar form of goods delivery in cities causes traffic jams on the roads, considerable pollution and noise,
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Meeting of the Urban Europe Research Alliance (UERA) at the AIT
prepare the ground for successful joint research projects in the future addressing the needs of cities. A Science-City-Dialogue, a matchmaking for future research and innovation proposals, and thematic working [...] place back-to-back with the Informed Cities Conference. ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability and partners such as SMARTICIPATE project organise the Informed Cities Conference from 7 to 8 November 2018 [...] The Urban Europe Research Alliance (UERA) aims at facilitating exchange of experiences between city representatives and researchers of the UERA during the upcoming meeting on 8th and 9th of November
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Circular economy for districts, cities and municipalities
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for districts, cities and municipalities Urban circular economy as a future model: efficiency, sustainability and digital transformation in cities Circular economy for districts, cities, and municipalities [...] strategies can be developed that support the circularity of cities across various domains. By reusing, recycling, and recovering materials, cities can reduce their dependence on finite resources and promote [...] systems. In addition, urban circular economy requires new cooperation models between municipalities, cities, businesses, and citizens, as well as the use of digital technologies to manage and optimize material
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Mission 2030: Young people want to make Klagenfurt a Smart City
version of the Klagenfurt Smart City Strategy. The valuable impulses of the students were also the basis for Klagenfurt becoming the only Austrian city to be part of the EU Cities Mission. Within the mission [...] funded by the Federal Ministry for Climate Protection and the FFG (Research Promotion Agency) in the "City of the future" programme. In the youth foresight, pupils of HTL1 and WIMO Klagenfurt developed their [...] in 2050 and defined which individual measures and goals within the fields of action of the Smart City Strategy must be implemented in the next few years in order to achieve them. The fields of action
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Urban Resilience
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Urban Resilience Cities are the living space of the future. Cities are crystalline intersections of population growth, economic activity and infrastructure development. Climate change and its associated [...] habitats. Extreme rainfall can bring a city to a halt, extreme heat waves put growing numbers of lives at risk, and landslides can cause major damage to infrastructure. Cities today must adopt to new realities [...] realities, ensuring citizen’s life, critical urban infrastructures and economic assets. AIT is helping cities and private businesses to understand, measure and plan for a resilient future. Our approach to building
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AIT project "GrazLog" wins HERMES 2019 Transport Logistics Prize
efficient and sustainable city logistics is very valuable," said Reinthaler, logistics expert at the AIT Center for Mobility Systems. GrazLog: Cooperatively used inner-city logistics hubs A heavily [...] heavily parked inner city, numerous trucks of various sizes with small delivery quantities - this familiar form of goods delivery in cities causes congestion on the roads, considerable pollution and noise, [...] On Friday, 27 April, the "GrazLog" project submitted by the City of Graz and managed by the AIT was awarded the HERMES 2019 Transport Logistics Prize in the sustainability category. AIT project manager
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HOTSPOTS
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can be achieved. Project description Nearly all major cities have large building stocks that thermally underperform. Identifying weaknesses on a city-wide scale and finding cost-effective measures is a pressing [...] the new data, an analysis of weaknesses in the city districts was carried out. A Decision Support Instrument was used to develop scenarios for selected city districts that show optimal combinations of measures [...] HOTSPOTS Thermal screening for urban climate protection Objective HOTSPOTS aimed to provide cities with tools and scientifically sound methods to capture the current state of a building's energy efficiency
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Oscar
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measures numerically and rapidly tangible on a city scale level, (4) Enable comparability of urban climate conditions of a city over time or with other cities and (5) Provide secured planning recommendations [...] analyses for climate-resilient urban planning Cities and municipalities are particularly affected by climate change and its impacts. Some Austrian cities have currently prepared urban climatic maps (UCM) [...] E-Mail * Betreff * Nachricht * Send Martin Schneider, MSc, BA Research Engineer / Digital Resilient Cities +43 664 78588203 martin.schneider(at)ait.ac.at Key Facts Project duration: 02/24 - 07/26 Project
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Climate simulation by AIT for “Zukunft Linz”
Concept" is setting the stage for Linz to become a climate-neutral industrial city by 2040. As part of these efforts, the Linz City Council tasked the Department of Urban Climatology and Environment in 2021 [...] 2021 with establishing a meteorological monitoring network. This initiative aims to enhance the city's climate data and allow for more comprehensive monitoring of climate indicators, such as heatwave days [...] Scientific Study and AIT Simulations Provide Unique Insights “The detailed simulations depict the city’s microclimate with a resolution of up to 5 x 5 meters, allowing us to precisely analyze how factors
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Research for a more livable city
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shows that there is another way: By redesigning city districts according to this principle, public space, mobility and the way people live together in a city can be reorganized. In superblocks, blocks of [...] Technology and lorenz consut, investigated three objectives in particular, using the city of Vienna as an example for Austrian cities: First, urban morphological neighborhood types were to be described as possible [...] The AIT's City Intelligence Lab can be used, among other things, to simulate the changes that urban planning measures will have on the mobility of residents and the accessibility of a city district. In
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ProBus: AIT solution among the winners of the PPPI challenge
million arrivals within the city limits. Tourists come primarily for the art and culture, the sights, the cityscape and architecture, and the history of the city. The city offers a wide range of attractions [...] Since 2000, the city of Vienna has seen a 101% increase in overnight stays. In 2017, Vienna recorded around 15.5 million overnight stays (of which over 12.7 million were by foreign guests) and 7.1 million [...] attractions spread across the urban area. Some of the tourists travel to and around the city by coach, for example from the Albertina to Schönbrunn and then on to the next place of interest. The various traffic
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Digital solutions for the fight against climate change
Austrian Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG, Vienna), Smart Cities Consulting (SSC, Vienna), and the City of Linz. “The CLARITY project is creating smart IT systems which will make climate [...] designed to reduce local effects on cities, such as heat islands or areas of potential flooding. Climate simulations in four European key regions Together with the city of Linz, which has set itself [...] by experienced climate expert Dr Wolfgang Loibl from the Digital Resilient Cities research group. “Linz is growing, and the city is overheating as a result of the increasing urban density. The micro-climate
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COIN
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focused on the elaboration of socio-economic pathways and climate-induced costs in cities through studies of all larger cities in Austria in the context of urban green areas. The current volume of urban green [...] change will affect Austrian cities in different ways, both impact-wise and cost-wise. Among the federal state capitals, Vienna will incur the highest costs, while the cities of Innsbruck and Klagenfurt [...] Objective The objective of COIN was to assess the costs of climate change adaptation measures for cities . Climate scenarios were interpreted, and all sectors of the Austrian National Adaptation Strategy
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AMIGOS
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AMIGOS Active Mobility Innovations for Green and Safe City Solutions To achieve CO2 neutrality, cities need to develop new, tailor-made energy concepts for urban transport that rely on emission-free and [...] tools, the European AMIGOS project will identify present and future mobility challenges for five cities (living labs – Hamburg, Gabrovo, Lappeenranta, Istanbul, Las Rozas) and ten urban areas (safety [...] active mobility modes, improving safety and co-habitation between different mobilities for the five cities, and towards increased safety for the ten urban areas. Therefore, key stakeholders such as public
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ASCEND Accelerate positive clean energy districts
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transition to climate-neutral cities. To achieve this goal, ASCEND serves as a test environment in which the implementation of PCEDs is demonstrated in two lighthouse cities and the performance of neigh [...] cost-effective PCEDs in the lighthouse cities of Lyon and Munich, serving as scalable reference models.. Facilitate the early-stage deployment of PCEDs in six multiplier cities—Alba Iulia (RO), Budapest (HU), [...] standardized SPs for a large community of cities and investors across Europe. Systematically disseminate empirical findings and best practices to the smart cities community, fostering knowledge transfer
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