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

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Environmental controls and sustainability: IoT sensors can assist in maximising energy efficiency, monitoring pollution levels, traffic control, and sustainable resources. Mobility and connected transit: Monitoring public transport can improve safety and hygiene. This is over six times the amount processed in 2018.

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

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And a more expanded concept of the "sustainable mobility dates to 2018 (" Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Framework "). It's about speed versus access. Also see, " A thought about an intra-district transit network for Tysons ," (2020).

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

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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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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.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And it imposes rules on the other properties, but doesn't do too much enforcement and oversight on recycling from multiunit residential and commercial properties (" Reformulating building regulations to promote sustainability, " 2016). This also came up in comments on a recent Post article on composting, " Composting in NYC is hard."

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

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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.