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Digital Planet: A Route 66 of the Future: New Cities Summit

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Gary Duffy (right) with Greg Lindsay

11/06/2013

A Route 66 of the Future: New Cities Summit

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Can technology help to ease 200 km traffic jams in Sao Paulo?

Sao Paulo, with a population of 11 million, is renowned for traffic jams that can be over 200 km long.  Can technology help to break the gridlock?

More than one million new people move to cities each week.  It is an accelerating trend that has been going on for decades and has led to the creation of megacities.  How do you move people around in such overcrowded places with creaking, overstrained transport systems?  In part three of our special series, A Route 66 of the Future, Click travels to Sao Paulo in Brazil, at the start of an international New Cities Summit to hear some of the solutions proposed by technologists, architects and planners.  

Gary Duffy talks to a range of specialists, including John Rossant, the founder of New Cities Foundation and the architect Daniel Libeskind.  There is also a report on the new monorail planned for the city, which will reduce journey times by more than a half; and the ground-breaking Apps to improve city life that were finalists at this year's AppMyCity competition.  Sao Paulo, a mega city with a population of 11 million, is known for its innovation.  But it is also renowned for traffic jams that can be over 200 kilometres long.  Can technology help to break the gridlock?

(Image: Gary Duffy (right) with Greg Lindsay)

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