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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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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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After the storms: Research on How to Improve Marine Transportation System Resilience after the 2017 Hurricane Season

Data.gov

A 2018 report from the U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS) gathered recommendations and ‘lessons learned’ from the 2017 hurricane season on how to improve resiliency across the marine transportation system. The report notes that “over the course … Continued.

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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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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

The COG is the union of local governments and designated by the USDOT as the region's metropolitan planning organization for regional transportation planning and coordination. And a more expanded concept of the "sustainable mobility dates to 2018 (" Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Framework ").

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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

But it's a demonstration of a quirk in planning generally and transportation planning specifically. Mostly, a master plan only covers what the government controls or operates, and usually ignores for profit services, and often, franchised services. The point of planning is to be proactive, not reactive.

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From Waste to Energy: How Urban Waste is Powering Our Cities

Reprogramming the City

The syngas can be further processed into electricity, heat, or transportation fuels (US Department of Energy, 2020). million gallons of low-carbon transportation fuels (Fulcrum BioEnergy, 2021). One example of a gasification facility is the Fulcrum BioEnergy’s Sierra BioFuels Plant in Nevada, USA.