City envy
Automotive news - Places around the globe are forging partnerships and researching smart ways to address mobility.
If you represent a city that wants to improve its transportation system and find ways to forge partnerships with local businesses, what better way to figure out the next steps than to visit other cities that are models for the future of transportation?
Columbus, Ohio, has become one of those cities that attract visitors from around the world who are trying to figure out how the city won the U.S. Department of Transportation's Smart City competition. Jordan Davis, director of the Smart Cities for Columbus Partnership, said delegations from about 50 cities visited Columbus last year to check out what the city is doing.
"We are working hard to document and archive our learnings and story-tell best practices so people can learn from us," Davis said at the Shift roundtable in June, which was sponsored by JobsOhio. The city opened the Smart Columbus Experience Center in June to help educate the public and government groups.