CityWare integrates the results from a range of international RTD projects:

• ECOSIM, and Environmental Telematics applications project for cities;
• GAIA, and INCO-DC project for environmental education;
• E!1388 AIDAIR a EUREKA project on urban air quality;
• SIMTRAP, an Esprit project on urban transportation and air quality;
• HITERM, an Esprit project on technological risk management;
• ENV-e-City: Towards an Environmentally Viable Electronic City.
• SUTRA:   Sustainable Urban Transportation for the City of Tomorrow
• RiskWare/NIR:   assessment of non-ionizing radiation, Genova/Liguria
• WEBAIR developing web based solution for urban air quality assessment and management;

These projects provide a wide range of physiographical, socio-economic, and institutional conditions for the development and application testing of CityWare components, tools and functionality.

CityWare combines elements of several thematic software systems:

• AirWare air quality assessment and management system;
• WaterWare for urban water supply, water quality and integrated water resources management; and
• RiskWare with elements of technological risk analysis,
• EIAxpert and environmental impact assessment,
• RTXPS, a real-time expert system for rule-based real-time control,
• LUC, land use dynamics for the simulation of urban/regional development

as well as a range of embedded utilities and tools including eLearning for intelligent manuals and tutorials.