Smart City Platforms & Urban Tech Update (June–July 2025)
In June 2025 Genoa, Italy was selected to host Project Hafnia, an AI-driven traffic management platform by Milestone Systems in partnership with NVIDIA, using a digital twin of the city via NVIDIA Omniverse to train vision AI models for real-time congestion mitigation. Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority signed a 42-month SaaS contract to deploy Iteris ClearGuide for citywide traffic monitoring, turning complex transportation data into actionable insights like bottleneck detection and congestion alerts. In Mumbai, India, JalVimana launched an initial fleet of 11 Candela P-12 electric hydrofoil ferries to form a new electric water transit network aimed at reducing road