<p>An imaginative collaboration between the world’s largest IT company and one of Europe’s smaller capital cities is demonstrating a new approach to data handling that could have far reaching implications for urban public transport worldwide.<br> <br>A close working relationship between <span class=&quot;glossary-item&quot;>IBM</span> and <span class=&quot;glossary-item&quot;>Dublin City Council</span> (DCC) dates from 2010. The IT giant was looking for a local transport authority as partner for testing IBM’s evolving Smarter Cities thinking on making urban centres more intelligent to run and use. It wanted a medium-sized city (the population of the greater Dublin area is 1.3 million) with which to develop approaches that could eventually apply to a large number of similar locations globally.<br> <br>IBM also had a redundant production base outside the Irish capital that was convenient in size and location for conversion into its world-first &#8211; and so far only &#8211; smarter cities research lab, which opened officially in 2011. At the same time, the Irish Government’s inward investment policy was focusing on attracting research and technology companies in general and positioning Dublin as a hub for innovation in particular.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>기사원문보기 : <a href=&quot;http://www.itsinternational.com/sections/transmart/features/new-approach-to-data-handling-aids-development-of-smarter-cities/&quot;>http://www.itsinternational.com/sections/transmart/features/new-approach-to-data-handling-aids-development-of-smarter-cities/</a></p>