SENSEable City Lab, MIT
presented by Assaf Biderman abider@mit.edu
Senseable City MIT website
What can we do with a wireless network, besides just accessing the web? Turns out, a whole darn lot! Computational devices are everywhere in the city, from the cell phone in your pocket, the streetlight on the corner, the laptop in your office. Imagine connecting these devices, and those of all urban dwellers, under a massive blanket network. 
Interconnecting these mobile computational devices can result in direct implications for planning of city infrastructure and resource allocation. Visualizations of human traffic via cell phone use, for example, reveals information about people use a city.
One such concept
An adaptable bus stop:
How can we implement wifi networks? Urban furniture! Produced in one place, and planted in the city. Enhance the blanket of interconnected, computation nodes. 
This enables site specific design, customized by city planners over a prototype model; localized versions based on local data. Amazing customization at a low production cost…only 20% over mass production.
Custom bus stops make travel easier for the user. The traveller connect two points on the map, the computer draws a line, tells you the route, the stops, the connections, the time to arrival, etc. this is existing technology but applied in a new way to enhance public transportation.
Also, take advantage of the bus stop as a public space. US is notably lacking in this aspect…few public plazas or urban parks. Here now is a place where you may post announcements, flyers, exchange relevant community information, a community water-cooler for conversation and information sharing. Includes bluetooth connectivity to download and upload information.
Interactive map of mobile users.