Create a new framework that allows the City of Seattle to more easily adopt innovative transportation products and services.
SEATTLE, USA
684,451 (2015)
6,476,631 (2015)
GDP
300.83 billion USD (2014)
Project area
Transportation
GHG from road transportation
2,283,000 Metric Tons CO2e (2014)
THE PROJECT
In the next 20 years, the City of Seattle is expected to increase by 120,000 people - 75 percent of this number being driven by high-tech jobs in the region. The city supports one of the USA’s leading tech industries that has developed a culture of collaboration and entrepreneurship. The City will use the City Solutions Platform (CSP) to create a new policy framework that allows the city to more easily adopt innovative and equitable transportation products and services. This framework will allow flexibility to compensate or invest in businesses that provide economic and community benefits whilst reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transportation sector.
The City has hosted a number of workshops, hackathons, co-creation events on this topic since 2015 and have a high commitment to addressing the challenge of transportation for a growing population and need to reduce GHGs. For example, the City organized a “Hack the Commute” in March 2015, a hackathon focused on spawning new ideas and tools that can ameliorate transportation woes amid an expanding urban population and constant construction.
The City has recently developed an open data program that will be used to increase quality of life, transparency how the city works, promote economic and research development, improve internal performance management. The timing to explore IT as a service and understand how to improve procurement process is complimentary. Transparency and open data initiatives have supported significant socio-economic and environmental benefits (smart cities open data guide) and Seattle is eager to experiment with business plan(s) that dive deeper into the role the City has in delivering IT software services to the public.