Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The total value of the UK bicycle market was estimated to be around 47% higher in 2021 than in 2019, and the latest DfT Road Traffic Estimates suggest that cycle traffic in 2021 was 15.7% higher than pre-pandemic levels in 2019. Over the last two years the UK has seen a cycling ‘boom’. Harnessing data to assess impact.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 6, 2025

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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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 4, 2023

In a joint research initiative with INFINITT, SMC piloted a cloud-native picture archiving and communication system (PACS) in its pathology department in 2019. Typically, biopsy specimens need to be transported by porters, processed and prepped by the lab technicians for microscopic examination, and finally interpreted by pathologists.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

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. Hamburg's transport association is the model. I first understood the DC area transit planning gap in two dimensions.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

One overlooked segment in regional transportation planning is inter-city bus service/travel. Professor Joseph Schweiterman of DePaul University is rare in that he tracks this form of transportation and he wrote about it for MSNBC News (" Thanksgiving is a stressful time to travel. Why it may get worse for these passengers. ").

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Government Technology Insider

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The Department of Defense just retired the 8-inch floppy disks that were part of the nuclear missile launch process in 2019, and the IRS has plans to finally retire its outdated system for processing taxpayer data in 2030. Aside from those high priorities, every agency should consider upgrading its technology.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 3, 2023

And like in the 2019 and earlier posts, inadequate snow removal in commercial districts remains a program. By contrast the nonprofit GreenBike program, based around hubs or stations, doesn't have the same problem. This is in the most successful neighborhood commercial district in Salt Lake City. Bike lanes.

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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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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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Partnership for Public Service

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As excepted employees—those who perform jobs that affect our national health, safety, emergency response and other critical functions—air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration officers would have to work without pay if the government shuts down.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 22, 2023

Again, I'd say a lot of hotel revenue and transportation (airline, rental cars, for out of area visitors) are captured by non local entities. Although other events also contributed to this, including the University of Pennsylvania graduation. SEPTA ridership was higher, and some food establishments had stronger business.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Then and now, jitneys (like ride hailing) are often seen as a substitute and competitor to public transit.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A more flexible architectural approach to enable remote access In September 2019, the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released Memorandum M-19-26 , which replaced prior TIC-related memorandums and introduced TIC 3.0 to a TIC 3.0 environment by integrating SD-WAN solutions with the AWS Global Infrastructure.

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The Lowe Down

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

. <paramname=’animate_transition’ value=’yes’ /> This graph shows the differences in industry growth and employment between July 2019 and July 2020. There is, however, one spectacular outlier: transportation and warehousing. This increased to 9.35% in January 2021.

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First State Insights

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

She was awarded the 2015 Delaware Business Times Best 40 under 40 award for being one of the region’s “best & brightest young professionals” and nominated as a top 5 finalist for the 2019 “Distinguished Woman in Logistics” award.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 13, 2024

Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " Route 7 BRT proposal communicates the reality that the DC area doesn't adequately conduct transportation planning at the metropolitan-scale ," 2016 -- " Reviving DC area bus service: and a counterpoint to the recent Washington City Paper article ," 2019 From the article: With additional (..)

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Data ingestion, geo-enablement, and wrangling First, we read the Chicago Transportation Network Providers dataset of 2019 in a.csv format directly from our Amazon S3 bucket as a Spark DataFrame. Additionally, we use some open source modeling libraries to show how GeoAnalytics Engine fits within your existing data science workflows.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 3, 2023

million metric tons generated in 2019 alone. Blockchain can enable more efficient and environmentally friendly recycling programs, ensuring that electronic waste is disposed of properly According to the United Nations, electronic waste has become the world’s fastest-growing domestic waste stream, with approximately 53.6

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Is separate from the annual appropriations process and is connected, in that primary funding source is the General Fund, but supplemented by other tax sources (special sales taxes usually), impact fees on new development, and transportation related funding. And the city and citizen-initiated projects use the same process, forms, etc.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Another element could be treating schools as "neighborhood cultural centers" too, the way I describe how neighborhood libraries should be positioned (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

From the Smart Transportation Guidebook. neighborhood ," 2019, (" Blaming Walmart for Skyland's failure is misdirected ," 2016," For the first time, Skyland Town Center's revitalization might have a chance: creating a community focused retail destination ," 2018). I said, "no. It will happen in the high value areas first etc."

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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

JANUARY 28, 2023

Especially since the Utah Department of Transportation's study of Little Cottonwood proposes gondola service. From a transportation demand management and equity perspective, you shouldn't be required to have a car to be able to recreate. I am fine with it.

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Partnership for Public Service

MAY 25, 2023

transportation security personnel and some food inspectors) were forced to work without pay for over a month. Since implementation of the Congressional Budget Act in 1977, this has happened 20 times.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

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). Create the DMV Transport Association (" The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association ") 2.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 25, 2022

On an e-list there's been a discussion of suburban TOD and someone mentioned this journal article, " Seven American TODs: Good practices for urban design in Transit-Oriented Development projects ," Journal of Transport and Land Use , 2008.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Creating multi-state regional transportation districts. For a time Transport for London and its predecessors produced great tourism guidebooks. I did collect a number of vintage transit tourism marketing pieces, in preparation. For example, a brochure from Chicago Transit Authority dating to 1958.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 15, 2023

The Philadelphia Inquirer has an article on the latter, " Philly’s indoor pools have become ‘a travesty’ after decades of disrepair and neglect ," about how 11 of 12 public indoor pools are closed because of facility failure--from 2004 to 2019.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 19, 2024

Blackpool Council’s experience From operating several companies, including transport operators and waste services, to delivering more than 200 services to the community, Blackpool Council is a large multi-entity organisation supporting an estimated population of 147,663 residents and 20 million annual visitors.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2023

For another, as I've written, the primary spending categories are lodging , transportation , and food and drink (hospitality). Most hotels are owned by non-local interest, same with transportation like airlines. Net revenue would be $7,700 per seat, still quite high.)

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The City Fix

APRIL 16, 2025

What does it take for cities to create a true systems change that creates a holistic, positive shift of the entire urban system? Finding and celebrating examples of this feat is at the heart of the WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

. -- " If DC had visionary elected officials and planners it could use the new WMATA "BOS" study to push through the development of a separated Silver Line in DC (and Northern Virginia) ," 2019 (I know this is not what WMATA is recommending, see " Blue Loop? Metro eyes possible future stops in Georgetown, National Harbor ," WTOP-AM).

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