This project examines technology adoption by the cities, counties, and other local government agencies that manage infrastructure. Which types of institutions are more likely to adopt new technologies and why? Which technologies are more likely to be adopted? How do those managing infrastructure agencies think about the costs and benefits of new technology? This project utilizes and compares a variety of data-collection strategies to track the adoption of new technologies by infrastructure agencies in the state, and to understand the technology adoption process. Data collection methods include interviews, surveys, webscraping, and automated text analysis.
Researchers: Shih-Hung Chiu, Tianyu Han, Ishana Ratan, Alison Post, Kenichi Soga
Domains: Smart City Tech
Capabilities: Data Analytics & Machine Learning
Publications:
Alison E. Post, Ishana Ratan, Mary C. Hill, Amy Huang, Kenichi Soga, Bingyu Zhao. “Benchmarking “Smart City” Technology Adoption in California: An Innovative Web Platform for Exploring New Data and Tracking Adoption.” 2022. Research Report. Institute for Transportation Studies, U.C. Berkeley.
Amy Huang, Alison E. Post, Ishana Ratan, Mary C. Hill, Bingyu Zhao. “Where are Private “Smart City” Transportation Technologies Concentrated in California?.” 2022. Policy Brief. Institute for Transportation Studies, U.C. Berkeley.
Karen Trapenberg Frick, Tanu Kumar, Ruyin Li, Giselle Kristina Mendonça Abreu, and Alison E. Post. “Benchmarking “Smart City” Technology Adoption in California: Developing and Piloting a Data Collection Approach.” 2021. Research Report. Institute for Transportation Studies, U.C. Berkeley.
Karen Trapenberg Frick, Tanu Kumar, Ruyin Li, Atharva Patil, and Alison E. Post. “The General Transit Feed Specification Makes Trip-Planning Easier—Especially During a Pandemic— Yet its Use by California Agencies is Uneven.” 2020. Policy Brief. Institute for Transportation Studies, U.C. Berkeley.
Karen Trapenberg Frick, Tanu Kumar, and Alison E. Post.“Background Paper: The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) Makes Trip-Planning Easier—Especially During a Pandemic—Yet its Use by California Agencies is Uneven.” 2020. Research Report. Institute for Transportation Studies, U.C. Berkeley.