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Nominations open for the 2024 American City & County Crown Communities and Exemplary Public Servants awards

American City & Country

The Exemplary Public Servants awards were created in 2018, and since then, AC&C has selected exemplary leaders based exclusively on merit. If it has made an impact, nominate it.

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4 Lessons on Increasing Transport Mitigation Ambition in China

The City Fix

Abating China’s transport sector greenhouse gas emissions, which accounted for about 11% of the world’s transport emissions in 2018, is key to meeting both national and global climate goals. In 2021, China updated its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), outlining ambitious.

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

Open Access Government - Technology News

Mobility and connected transit: Monitoring public transport can improve safety and hygiene. This is over six times the amount processed in 2018. Facilities management: Smart buildings rely on IoT-based sensors to improve energy efficiency, such as by automating light controls and enhancing the use of space to reduce costs.

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Revisiting the need for comprehensive transportation planning at the metropolitan and regional scales | For profit services, and White's Ferry, Montgomery and Loudoun Counties

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association ," 2017 -- " Verkehrsverbund: The evolution and spread of fully integrated regional public transport in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland ," International Journal of Sustainable Transportation , 2018 When I first (..)

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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. My friend says there is no good public transportation from the airport to the city's major hotels. But it's quite impressive in two ways. It's being built relatively quickly. Photo: Ryan Lynch, Orlando Business Journal.

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Bus stops as neighborhood focal points and opportunities for placemaking

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The New York Times has an article on a bus shelter public art project, " Watching for the Bus Stop Gallery." 9, the artist, whose home base is Brooklyn, will be giving people something to think about during their own public transportation journey, or purgatory as the case may be. From the article: Starting Aug.