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Disruptive innovation and technologies in transport are ushering smart processes, infrastructure, and operations, challenging regulators and raising passengers’ expectations.
Urban planners in Seoul shifted from paper-based processes to a computerized system to improve information sharing and decision-making.
Combining market-based instruments, such as payments for ecosystem services and conditional social transfers, alleviate poverty while conserving ecosystems.
Digital technology is key to increasing financial inclusion, but it comes with new challenges and risks.
Lanzhou, in the People’s Republic of China, has the world's first bus rapid transit with a split station design allowing buses in the same direction to stop on both sides of the platform, easing travel time.
Innovations in water management and adaptive planning can create opportunities for climate adaptation and mitigation.
Korean engineers develop a structural monitoring and measurement system that can manage multiple cable bridges in Southeast Asia.
Banking on a growing digital economy, Viet Nam needs to improve IT connectivity and skills, e-payments, logistics, cybersecurity, and consumer trust.
Increasingly, businesses in Asia are looking for innovative solutions to environment and climate change challenges, while pursuing their corporate goals.
Analysis of field sampling and remote sensing data gives important insights into the potential for expanding beef cattle grazing and the challenges.