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Re-imagining the future of mobility on islands

AWS Public Sector Blog

Learn how islands are leveraging digital technology to innovate across four of the main trends re-shaping our transport systems: promoting public transportation through mobility as a service (MaaS), active mobility, electrification, and autonomous vehicles. Islands can help us to imagine the art of the possible.

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

AWS Public Sector Blog

Improving air quality through co-creation In 2018, the Mayor of London set an ambitious goal : 80 percent of the 31 million daily trips in the city should be made on foot, by bicycle, or public transport by 2041. With this data, we challenged tech app startups to develop new ways to make our roads safer and smarter during roadworks.

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How artificial intelligence can aid urban development

Open Access Government - Technology News

Artificial intelligence can be a game-changer in the mission of modernizing urban development, especially when it comes to transportation infrastructure Planning and maintaining communities in the modern world is as simple as threading a needle with an elephant. So, too, do the grids and topography that are unique to every city.

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It’s time to evolve IT procurement

AWS Public Sector Blog

Just as people now consider car ownership, public transportation, and ridesharing services, organizations must expand criteria to capture the multiple dimensions offered by cloud computing and determine which creates the greatest ROI. On-premises models over-provision to account for spikes and growth, risking underutilized capacity.

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Picturing Sustainable and Just Urban Futures: Winners of the Transformative Urban Coalitions 2023 Photo Contest

The City Fix

Nevertheless, cities also account for a staggering. With over half of the world’s population living in cities, urban spaces not only house us but offer opportunities for collective work and learning while serving as sources of creativity, inspiration and hope.

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Lessons From China, India, Vietnam on National Transport Ambitions and Accelerating Decarbonization

The City Fix

In Asia, 14 countries — accounting for 26% of global transport emissions in 2019 — have made economy-wide net zero commitments. Momentum towards zero-emission transport is growing with countries enhancing ambition and including transport-related targets in their nationally determined contributions (NDCs). However,

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New Answers to Who Is Poor in America

Poverty & Policy

The authors refer to it as the “commodification of opportunity”—a fancy term for several developments that help account for poverty. Two other developments have to do with the composition of the poverty population. Still another and again related development is increasing neighborhood segregation.