Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

of the population lived in an urban area in 2019, which is increasing all the time. 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. In England alone, 82.9%

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Government Technology Insider

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Its allowing agencies to be more intentional, to create sustainable, forward-looking technology that truly supports mission-critical goals, and it supports bold, creative solutions to pursue big ideas and innovations rather than just incremental changes. Aside from those high priorities, every agency should consider upgrading its technology.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

This entry became very long, so I broke it up.

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MAY 10, 2024

For example, in a blog entry in 2016, I suggested that such information be provided at the Council District scale and that ward-focused committees address traffic safety and sustainable mobility in concerted ways. Other cities have had mixed to negative results from similar initiatives.

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Human Transit

JANUARY 27, 2022

My friend Professor Juan Carlos Muñoz Abogabir is Chile’s new Minister of Transport. He is a Bus Rapid Transit expert and an eloquent advocate for sustainable and just transport planning, and is also one of the nicest people I know. Fast forward to 2019. And it has the perfect transport leader for the moment.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Note that the original PL series on Silver Spring did discuss an intra core shuttle system to complement their parking structures and to allow for converting Fenton Avenue to a sustainable mobility corridor. But I didn't extend this tertiary transit concept to the transit sheds of other PL stations.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

The first proposes a "transport association" based on the German VV model, where all the local transit providers commit to integrated service, and a common schedule and fare system. My friend says there is no good public transportation from the airport to the city's major hotels. Cool train branding designs though for Tri-Rail.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

One of my points about master planning is that for functional areas: transportation; parks and recreation; culture; etc., But they aren't organized into an overarching association, in a manner comparable to how Germany organizes regional transport associations to coordinate the planning and delivery of transit services.

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The City Fix

MARCH 13, 2024

NUMO, the New Urban Mobility alliance, began tracking this phenomenon in 2019 with the New Mobility Atlas. Between 2019 and. Since the mid-2010s, cities around the globe have witnessed the explosion of free-floating electric bikes, mopeds and scooters on their streets.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

DC does not understand its "unique selling proposition" or "core competency" is being transit- and sustainable mobility-centric. But the failures in planning extend beyond DC (" Silver Line Metro expansion a classic example of the need to have true regional transportation planning ," 2011). Extending the Yellow Line south on Rte.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 3, 2023

Paris was a pioneer when it introduced e-scooters, or trottinettes, in 2018 as the city’s authorities sought to promote non-polluting forms of urban transport. Sustainable mobility framework. In what was billed as a “public consultation” voters were asked: “For or against self-service scooters?”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Creating multi-state regional transportation districts. Especially because with cities, it's possible to visit and tour without a car, but instead by sustainable mobility--transit especially and sometimes biking. See " City Break Tourism, the rental car shortage, and transit/sustainable mobility as a way to get around: Part 1."

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

Inadequacies in school transportation planning ," 2022 -- School Walk and Bike Routes: A Guide for Planning and Improving Walk and Bike to School Options for Students -- Safe Routes to School program , Washington State -- City of Tacoma SRTS program , including SRTS Action Plan -- Starkville in Motion A failed job interview with DDOT.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 14, 2024

For governments, this nuanced insight is invaluable, enabling officials to determine safe and sustainable courses of action. The 2019 discovery of a mock aircraft carrier in Iran underscores this, proving just how useful geospatial tech can be when it comes to uncovering potential war crimes and hidden threats.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The state is an oil producer, and has at least five oil refineries, so it is super committed to a gasoline-centric land use and transportation planning paradigm. In fact, two of the top ten car dealership groups are based here, one sold for $3.2 billion (although they have dealerships in states other than Utah).

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). Recently, I spoke to a senior emergency planner who has worked for years in the transportation and nuclear industries. Moore-Bick, M.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

Proposed routes as of 2019 While the current transit planning efforts are focused on new bus services, long before now, SEPTA should have been moving forward on extending the Broad Street subway line by 1.5 That's been a process about as long as the one for the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 20, 2023

so it's a lucrative market for transportation services, especially if they are convenient and cost effective. RTC also runs a bikeshare program, manages certain intelligent transportation systems functions, and a number of game day sports related express bus services. The first element is an integrated public transportation system.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 6, 2023

I have written about how Pennsylvania with SEPTA, Massachusetts with MBTA, and Maryland with MARC (" A "Transformational Projects Action Plan" for a statewide passenger railroad program in Maryland ," 2019) could use their regional railroad commuter systems as the foundation to develop statewide railroad passenger programs.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

This is impossible to substantiate, but goods manufactured in a donor country, brought to Haiti by transport from that country and distributed by personnel from the same country would do little to stimulate the Haitian economy. In his book about the earthquake, the eminent Harvard medical doctor Paul Farmer [ii] noted that only 3.8%

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2023

It's creeping out of bankruptcy (" Court order finalizes sale of Harborplace to Baltimore investment management firm ," WBAL-TV). -- " Baltimore's Harborplace in bankruptcy and what that says about certain development trends in urban revitalization ," 2019 There have been a bunch of reports and concept papers in the interim.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 8, 2024

The report concludes: In 2019, 43% of people killed by motor vehicles were walking, using a wheelchair or riding a bike. Atlantic Imperial Washington DC Metro Baltimore Road Map, 1964, back panel. Also see the Bloomberg article " EVs Can’t Fix a Global Epidemic of ‘Car Harm,’ Study Finds." Motor vehicles kill more than 700 children a day.

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

The key findings of our analysis include the following: Reductions in revenues from 2019 pre-pandemic levels for Florida cities in fiscal years 2021 through 2023 are forecasted to total $5.11 He can be reached via cchen64@gsu.edu.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g., how do we make this particular library or transit station or park or neighborhood "great"?);

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The City Fix

JUNE 26, 2023

Cities occupy just 3 percent of the Earth’s land, but account for most of the global energy consumption and carbon emissions. Many cities are also more vulnerable to climate change and natural disasters due to their population densities and interconnected infrastructure.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 28, 2024

European and US car sales peaked in 2019. The US developed a mobility paradigm focused on the car, killing passenger rail and local transit in the process, and mostly treats bikes as toys, not a mode of practical transportation, but the real way to think about is in terms of a homogeneous mobility paradigm overall. That is the trend.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

I stepped down when we moved to Salt Lake in late 2019, although I thought at the time somehow I'd be maintaining residences in both places. I suggested many things over the years including: -- creating a transportation management district for the Capitol Hill area, serving Eastern Market. Master Plan contract, 2019.

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MARCH 3, 2024

Doubling down on place values " (2022) The Economics of Uniqueness: Investing in Historic City Cores and Cultural Heritage Assets for Sustainable Development DC (" Bowser, business leaders pitch $400M plan to fix D.C.’s Downtown brings $2.3 million for a “dedicated team and marketing efforts to facilitate the transformation of Downtown D.C.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Transit/transportation as a set of networks operating at different scales : this extends the argument laid out in the 2006 Arlington County Master Transportation Plan, where they defined their primary and secondary transit networks. ( This entry became very long, so I broke it up. I have more than 1,000 entries on this topic.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 20, 2025

What started as an app for residents to use city services like paying for parking or topping up a public transportation card, has transitioned in wartime to be a life-saving tool, sharing information on airstrikes and the nearest bomb shelter during an air-raid alert. The committee also chose a recipient for the Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2025

As I wrote before, I'd rather see a reconfiguring of HUD around Cities, Regions and Urban Ecology (sustainability), merging in some parts of the EPA and DOE smart growth operations, local and regional Economic Development aspects of the Dept. of Agriculture, Rural Development, and Sustainability, and refigure the departments some.

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