"pilot cities" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a group of cities that are selected to test or implement a new program, policy, or technology before it is rolled out to a larger area. Example: The government has chosen five pilot cities to test out their new renewable energy program before implementing it nationwide.
Richard J. Codey, who plans to name three pilot cities for the program next month.
All of the pilot cities need to have completed the pilot area construction by 2017.
He says, "from our experience working with pilot cities governments and local design institutes, there are both technical and management issues, depending on how the local pilot cities manage those challenges; some cities move faster, some comparably slow".
China has designated and invested in pilot cities for electric vehicles, smart grids, LED lighting, rural biomass and low-carbon communities.
The five pilot cities were deliberately not chosen from the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities programme, which announces its final tranche next week.
Mr O'Rourke, working with a few business-friendly Texas Republicans, helped pass a law allowing El Paso and a few other pilot cities and airports to pay overtime for CBP officers in peak periods.
While GM's service is about to launch, BMW's pilot program, called DriveNow, was suspended in its pilot city of San Francisco last November.
Application of the model to Jinan City, a pilot city for the construction of a civilized and ecological city in China, proved effective, revealing that carbonate is the poorest habitat factor and has the highest priority for ecological rehabilitation.
In this study, the typical monitoring stations were selected by fuzzy clustering analysis based on the spatial and temporal distribution characteristics of water ecology in Jinan City, the first pilot city for the construction of civilized aquatic ecosystems in China.
The extended TPB model was consequently tested via the structural equation modeling (SEM) using data collected from the Shenzhen city, which is the first national pilot city for construction waste management and comprehensive utilization in China.
Developing an application (e.g. the ones presented on the OTN Hub) or using data from more than one pilot city or a region requires having the data in a unified (harmonized) structure.
