{"id":1861,"date":"2022-07-11T19:33:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T18:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2022\/07\/11\/hybrid-cities-when-old-and-new-infrastructures-intersect\/"},"modified":"2022-07-11T19:33:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T18:33:21","slug":"hybrid-cities-when-old-and-new-infrastructures-intersect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2022\/07\/11\/hybrid-cities-when-old-and-new-infrastructures-intersect\/","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid cities: when old and new infrastructures intersect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/citiesofthefuture.eu\/uk-railroads-invest-in-data-science\/\">Cities of the future reports<\/a> on British Railways investing quite heavily in sensors and other forms of data collection, and AI machine learning to monitor, predict and (preemptively) respond to any potential mishaps on the tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although by no means a new observation &#8211; in fact fairly obvious by now &#8211; i nonetheless find it interesting to learn about these kinds of hybrid infrastructural practices where the worlds of atoms and bits collide (dixit <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_J._Mitchell\">William Mitchell<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>UK Railroads Invest in Data Science, AI, and Machine Learning<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"828\" height=\"1628\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/img_1168.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/img_1168.jpg 828w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/img_1168-356x700.jpg 356w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/img_1168-76x150.jpg 76w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/img_1168-768x1510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/img_1168-781x1536.jpg 781w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The oldest rail network in the world, with over 32,000 km. of track, is investing in artificial intelligence and machine learning to streamline maintenance and deal with weather-related challenges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cities of the future reports on British Railways investing quite heavily in sensors and other forms of data collection, and AI machine learning to monitor, [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2022\/07\/11\/hybrid-cities-when-old-and-new-infrastructures-intersect\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16],"tags":[275,277,276,19,258],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-hybrid-cities","tag-infrastructures","tag-mobility","tag-sensors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/img_1168.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peQgW-u1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}