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Using Amazon Timestream and Amazon Location Service to detect transportation route deviations and anomalies

AWS Public Sector Blog

Most commonly, GPS coordinates are used to track vehicle location and transportation route. GPS coordinates often have anomalies that can contaminate location reporting. Additionally, if a vehicle takes a detour, it will offset public transportation schedules. Both cases impact the riders negatively.

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Often places have "lots of" parking, but it's spread out across multiple properties, and they don't coordinate. Transportation Demand Management programming The reality is, especially in a place like Salt Lake, most people drive. In serious TDM programs there are people ready to help individual clients make the shift.

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Analyzing vehicle fleet location data from a data lake with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), many public sector customers operate fleets of vehicles (e.g. emergency response, public transportation) that generate location data, which is ultimately stored in a data lake. In this use case, the dataset contains coordinate data for four different vehicles in the Kansas City Metro area.

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Prolonged, wide-area electrical power failure

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

lifts [elevators] blocked: people possibly trapped in them trains stranded: people possibly stranded in them traffic control inoperable: possibility of accidents and queues at road junctions critical facilities (hospitals, police stations, etc.)

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Supporting smart and sustainable transportation innovation at the ITS World Congress

AWS Public Sector Blog

The top eight selected finalists were Seoul Robotics , TRAINFO , Gridmatrix , Nota Incorporated , Lilin , Derq , Sentinel Transportation Systems LLC , and Roadway Management Technologies. Citi Logik helps governments drive action on transportation insights with AWS. Ultimately, the judges named Derq Inc.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This comes up because a building materials recycling and resale organization in Philadelphia, Philly Reclaim , is shutting down because it was behind in rent, has organizational management issues, and the building is being sold (" Tacony salvage shop needs to move by Monday. It’s giving away sinks, lumber, and more ," Philadelphia Inquirer ).

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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. Transport for London and SF MUNI also. Gaps don't abate.