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Saudi Arabia

6 projects in 2 cities

🤖 AI-generated country overview of source-checked atlas entries — how this works

The atlas documents 6 projects across 2 cities in Saudi Arabia, the earliest dating to 2012: 1 with a documented success, 1 scaled back, 4 still running without a verdict. Every entry carries an evidence grade — the strongest here is independent (1 entry) — and links its sources.

The shape of Saudi Arabia

Computed from the 6 entries below — a profile, not a score.

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1 📡

Outcome succeeded 1ongoing 4scaled back 1

Evidence independent 1official 4media 1

Cities

All 6 projects

✔ Every published entry is checked against the public sources it cites before publication.

📡 🇸🇦 NEOM The Line since 2021 · Suspended → 🚲 🇸🇦 NEOM Oxagon since 2021 · In build → 🚲 🇸🇦 Riyadh Riyadh Metro since 2024 · Live → 🚲 🇸🇦 Riyadh Riyadh Bus Network & darb App since 2023 · Live → 🚲 🇸🇦 Riyadh Riyadh Parking: Priced Curbs & Camera Patrols since 2024 · Live → 🚲 🇸🇦 Riyadh Riyadh Advanced Traffic Control System since 2012 · Live →

Deeper reads

Where Saudi Arabia appears in the atlas's own analysis.

💸 The Price Nobody Publishes 🧯 1 entry in the failure atlas 🏆 1 in the what-worked record 🧾 Passport: Riyadh Bus Network & darb App 🧾 Passport: Riyadh Parking 🧾 Passport: Riyadh Advanced Traffic Control System ⚖️ Side by side: The in-ground parking sensor, and what replaced it

📎 Cite this country record

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smart-city projects in Saudi Arabia.” The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/countries/saudi-arabia/ (last verified 2026-08-15). Data: CC BY 4.0.

The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.