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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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Covid Resourcefulness: Trains converted to Quarantine Coaches

Reprogramming the City

Public transportation assets have proved adept at being repurposed to serve a human need. In San Francisco, Lava Mae converted a fleet of city busses into mobile hygiene units (a project featured in the Reprogramming the City Book ). Repurposing Book and Toolkit: Reprogramming the City and How To [PDF Combo].

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Transit Executives Muse about Equity, Inclusion, and Post-Covid Priorities

Human Transit

Paul Comfort, Conversations about Equity and Inclusion in Public Transportation, Comfort Consulting, 2022. This new book is a collection of his interviews, mostly with the people leading major transit agencies in the US. The book is a good tour of what’s on the minds of the industry right now, at least in the US. (One

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Demystifying AI: How RAG boosts efficiency in state and local government departments

AWS Public Sector Blog

It’s critical for anyone invested in the future of public service. Bridging the knowledge gap with LLMs Imagine if every government employee had an assistant who had read every book, document, and memo in the world. This assistant could draft policies, answer public inquiries, and create reports in seconds.

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How To Use ChatGPT To Build Target Personas and Hit the Mark ?Every Time With Your Library Promotions

Super Library Marketing

Terrance doesn’t have a car, but he’s been using public transportation all his life. They use the library to check out books about once a month. Hobbies and Interests Enjoys reading, especially classic literature and business-related books. He really wants to go to college. He’d be the first in this family to go.

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How To Create a Marketing Plan for an Entire Year Even if Your Library’s Strategic Plan Sucks or Is Non-Existent!

Super Library Marketing

You decide to rent a vehicle or research public transportation. You purchase airline or train tickets and book a hotel. It’s even got its own website and fan club. If you’re like me, you do some strategic planning when you go on a trip. You pick restaurants to sample and decide which tourist attractions you’ll visit.

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Bus stops as neighborhood focal points and opportunities for placemaking

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Boston is promoting digital library access at 20 bus stops (" Borrowing books on the bus? Libraries in places like Orange County, California and Calgary have put in book lending stations at transit stations in their communities for more than a decade. It’s happening in Boston ," Boston Globe ). It's not particularly pathbreaking.