Do you often complain about taxi (yes, we always do)?
Well, your trouble may be ending now. A paper, presented at the First Workshop on Pervasive Urban Application summarized on the last issue of “IEEE Pervasive Computing”, shows that taxi performance in cities can be largely improved by analyzing and modeling their GPS […]
As crowdsourcing become a standard way of data collection, cities seem more and more the ideal ecosystem for this activity due to the high density of sensors and communication networks. The examples collected by the Ushaidi blog show how user-generated and geo-located news can be represented by current mapping software. Of course, watching data […]
It is traditionally believed that a more informed population about the risks of a pandemics is the best weapon against the contagion. Well, it turns out that is not always the case. A new research paper appearing on Scientific Report shows that well-informed travelers, avoiding regions with the highest rates of infection, actually help […]
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