What is a Smart City?

Smart cities utilize technology and data to improve infrastructure, services, and quality of life. Common smart city goals include enhancing transportation, improving energy efficiency, reducing costs, and engaging citizens through digital platforms. Potential benefits include economic growth, sustainability, public safety, and a higher living standard for residents.

As a growing city, we are not unfamiliar with transport and parking concerns, this is a natural part of expansion. Clarksville’s advantage is our city’s forward-thinking in recent years and ability to implement functional solutions. Most of the success at these crucial points will be important to include residents and remain informed on demographics, public concerns, and interests.

Topics like affordable housing, access to Wi-Fi, road improvements, and school zones, amongst other pressure points, have been on residents’ minds. Continued transparency and public awareness will be key moving forward and developing Clarksville from a “Smart” to a Brilliant city—a place where we all not only want to work, stay, and play–but can do it in convenient ways!