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

AWS Public Sector Blog

This is a guest post by Rikesh Shah, outgoing head of open innovation at Transport for London, on behalf of the AWS Institute from Amazon Web Services (AWS), a thought leadership and executive education program to accelerate digital transformation for public sector executives.

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An economic development "transformational projects action plan" for Greater Wichita

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Based on a slew of previous writings, over the past few years I've codified an approach that I call "transformational projects action planning" as an element of planning at three scales: (1) for master plans; (2) functional plans (elements, such as transportation); and (3) for specific projects, aiming for innovative approaches.

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Why the creation of smart cities requires real-time data processing

Open Access Government - Technology News

Data, and the ability to process it rapidly and seamlessly, is crucial to the connected, intelligent networks that provide the lifeblood to today’s cities and the transport systems that link a nation’s cities together. Mobility and connected transit: Monitoring public transport can improve safety and hygiene. The impact of 5G.

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NBA All Star Game in Salt Lake, economic development hype | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the Pirates baseball team economics

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Utah Business magazine claims that the economic development impact of the Game will be as much as $250 million (" The 2023 NBA All-Star Weekend could boost Utah’s economy by $250M+ "). For another, as I've written, the primary spending categories are lodging , transportation , and food and drink (hospitality).

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Washington NFL team inks agree with Metrorail to provide late night post game service: for one game? Or for all of them?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Most sports teams don't have transportation demand management requirements (" Framework of characteristics that support successful community development in association with the development of professional sports facilities "). That's the case for the DC area teams.

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The basic lesson of intensification that government officials and activists don't understand: intensification happens first in high value areas, not low value areas

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I always say that the first big lesson I have from involved in DC urban revitalization was that you needed to have plans before they were needed, not after, because once the velocity of development has been unleashed, you can't catch up. From the Smart Transportation Guidebook. I said, "no. He was very surprised.

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September or October should be College Bike Month

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I did have a section on biking for transportation in the 2016 post, " Back to School #3: College." In my biking-related comments on the SLC Transportation Plan, I suggested that University of Utah put its campus bike shop at the TRAX University light rail station, to make it more "multi-modal".) Bicycle Friendly University.