Smart cities hold a lot of promise: safer communities, improved transportation, better air quality, and increased digital equity are but a few benefits. There are economic gains too. According to experts, smart cities will be responsible for $2.4 trillion dollars of economic growth by 2025. Enabling this tech-empowered urban renaissance requires an immense amount of […]
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Protecting Vulnerable Road Users – What Have We Learned?
Written by Kelly Daize, Strategic Market Director, Area X.O Self-driving cars will eventually be far safer than those driven by people. That’s the promise of self-driving technology. We know we can get there, but there’s a lot of work required before that happens. The problem is large and complex, and many areas need more research […]
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Top Three Common Mobility Myths Busted
Everyone loves a good story. Stories are how we make information stick. They once were our only lifeline to history, and we continue to teach our children using stories. As well, good storytelling is critically important in how we entertain ourselves. But even if a story sounds believable, it isn’t always true. Maybe even more […]
Scaling V2X for the Real World
Blog written by: Divyanshu Kamboj A technology as complex and interconnected as V2X requires pilot programs to develop, test, and refine it. Yet, a pilot doesn’t often answer questions of scale, like how the technology should interoperate along long corridor routes with dozens of intersections, or how V2X intersections should scale to optimally complement existing […]
The Journey Towards Production
Blog written by: Kelly Daize I recently overheard a colleague provide a shorthand description of Area X.O as a “smart mobility R&D facility”. After my immediate reaction (“no… that is only a small part of what we do”) I realized that my biggest beef may be with my concept of the term R&D. When I […]
Sustainable Transportation to Pave the Way Towards a Cleaner, Greener and Inclusive Future with Richa Sahay
On March 8, the world celebrated International Women’s Day. From February 28 to April 6, Invest Ottawa, alongside dozens of strong local, regional, and national collaborators, marked the 4th International Women’s Week: IWW 2022. Across industries spanning tech, entrepreneurship, academia, research, media, investment, smart mobility, cybersecurity, and beyond, IWW 2022 addressed the critical opportunities and […]
Fueling the next-gen talent pipeline: talent development, attraction and retention advice for the smart mobility industry
In the world of smart mobility, it is imperative for innovators, companies, investors, regulators and communities to drive the safe development, commercialization, and deployment of connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) and smart mobility solutions. But equally important is the opportunity for the industry to have access to talent and retain a competitive and diverse workforce equipped […]
Five reasons V2X innovators need cellular networks
Since the turn of the century, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology has usually relied on dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) – a “Wi-Fi-like” protocol running on a reserved bit of spectrum to allow vehicles to talk to each other or to road-side infrastructure. Today, it’s much more likely that automakers and suppliers researching and building V2X solutions are […]
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Are autonomous vehicles ready for Canada?
For those of us who spend part of the year in winter driving conditions, autonomous vehicles may seem out of reach. It’s a sentiment shared by almost one-third of the Canadian public who are concerned about autonomous technology. How can you teach a car to drive under whiteout or black-ice conditions? However hard it may […]
At the edge: the unlikely combination of drones and cars
As one of the nation’s premier testing grounds for connected vehicles of all sorts, Ottawa’s Area X.O sees both drone and connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) projects at our R&D complex – many times both at the same time. These technologies each operate at the edge of technology development, yet on first glance seem to […]
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