b'WCA EDUCATIONTHE GROWTHOF SMART CITIESFuturist consultant Nikolas Badminton had Expo Luncheon attendees captivated with his keynote on the future city. During his presentation, Badminton explored the implementation of renewable energy, self-driving vehicles and the Internet of Things, with big data and data science at the heart of operations.AROUND THE WORLD LRT FOR WINNIPEG15-minute cityCAN LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT)concepts beingWORK IN WINNIPEG?executed inother countriesParis is planning to become aSure, it would be great to We need to be driving 15-minute city in order to cut industry; we need to be have LRT, and it would have beendriving business here and car use, resulting in fewer CO2great if we had implemented aattracting talent. I would like emissions and cleaner air. Parisplan decades ago. But I am alsoto see this happen because Mayor Anne Hidalgo wants everya realist and working for theI think its important for the street to have a cycle lane by 2024City; the elephant in the roomnext generation if we want to is that our city funding model and proposes replacing 60,000is broken, and we continue toattract success here.on-street parking spots with greenaccomplish these goals and space and playgrounds. struggle to fund even our current Dom Costantiniinfrastructure. And as a transit Nordhavn, a community on therider, frequency and coverage of edge Copenhagen, Denmark,your transit infrastructure is key to adopted the five-minute cityenticing people to switch from car concept in 2016, offering residentsto transit. With the Transit Master If we build it, it will be a maximum five-minute walk toPlan, that really is the focushowused. The bus system has a all amenities and public transport.can we design our transit routescaptive audiencepeople A metro line connects the area tobetter so that the frequencyuse it out of necessity. Id Copenhagens city centre in is there The idea is that welike to see that convert other 20 minutes. put more buses on the road topeople. If we build something Plan Melbourne aims toincrease frequency, we adaptlike this as opposed to bus create a city of 20-minutestations so they function more[routes], I think were going neighbourhoods, where peoplelike subway stations If we canto convert more people to meet their daily needs within aget that right and start to increaserapid transit. With rail, its transit ridership, which is really a short, non-motorized trip challenge here, hopefully that willits more frequent.faster, its more reliable and from their residences, with the switch.Elise FinniganDarren Klassenaccess to safe cycling and localstart to entice people to maketransport options.Issue 4 | Winter Edition | 2022 BUILD MANITOBA 33'