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How cities can use transport data to reduce pollution and increase safety

AWS Public Sector Blog

While I was working as head of open innovation at Transport for London (TfL), we adopted an innovative approach to working with private sector organizations to make journeys simper and faster, reducing both pollution and accident levels. By the end of 2022, 63 percent of journeys fulfilled these criteria.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. But it's quite impressive in two ways. It's being built relatively quickly. The extension to Orlando is opening later this year.

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Getting WMATA out of crisis: a continuation of a multi-year problem that keeps getting worse, not better ," 2015 -- " DC area transit commission board member thinks he has a brilliant idea on how to fund Metrorail: sales taxes ," 2022 It's a shame that it had to reach the level of a super crisis to do anything.

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WMATA's latest bus improvement program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Overnight transit service ," 2012 -- " Night moves: the need for more night time (and weekend) transit service, especially when the subway is closed ," 2013 -- " Night and weekend transit/subway service ," 2016 -- " Overnight transit service: San Francisco ," 2016 The 2013 entry states that bus service should be provided to airports when Metrorail (..)

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Brightline West should also be used to transform public transit service in Las Vegas

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

RTC Southern Nevada is the public transit agency in the Las Vegas Valley. The first element is an integrated public transportation system. And the taxi industry and drivers are a very strong lobby against public transportation. People lining up for The Deuce. Transit in Las Vegas Bus.

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Defining deviance down: Disorder and cities in 2022

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Council to decriminalize fare evasion in 2018. The solutions aren’t easy for Metro or its transit police department, which has been accused of disproportionate enforcement against Black residents, leading the D.C.