Taipei City Government

The Department of Information Technology (DOIT) announced that the city government has claimed two prizes at the 2018 IDC SCAPA Awards. The winning projects include “Taipei IoT Integration of Transportation” and “Smarter Infrastructure Platform.”
 
According to the agency, it established the Taipei Smart City Project Management Office in 2016 in an effort to realize the vision of a livable and sustainable city. The role of the new institution include: to survey citizens’ needs and match them with potential solutions available in the private sector; to assist the government in bringing in smart solutions to solve problems; and to create a IoT Living Lab in Taipei through tapping sites and resources of the public sector.
 
With the purpose of constructing a convenient, green, and sharing-based smart transportation network, the city government integrates real time traffic information spanning YouBike, public bus, MRT, parking, and traffic control, including an integrated 3U transportation service, covering YouBike, U-Motor, and U-Car.
 
In addition, the implementation of PoC experiments to businesses and enterprises, as well as test runs of driverless vehicles, all demonstrate the city government’s efforts in integrating smart technology with transportation. Through these approaches, it seeks to herald in a new era of smart transportation for its residents.
 
Seen as an integral part of smart transportation, the presence of a communication-ready infrastructure is a necessity for smart city. With a solid foundation in terms of infrastructure, the city government builds upon this advantage to integrate services such as smart pipeline management and IoT-linked smart street lights to bring more convenience and accessibility to everyone who live in Taipei.