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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

Alongside publicity and professional support from ITS and the European Road Transport Telematics Implementation Coordination Organization ( ERTICO ), both winners were awarded $12,500 in AWS Credits to further the development of safe, smart, and sustainable transportation innovation in the cloud.

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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

In transportation, it means that private parking resources are usually not addressed in parking planning (" Testimony on parking policy in DC ," 2012), private sector operators aren't addressed in planning for various modes. In solid waste, it means that the agency only plans wrt residential waste pickup for houses of 1-4 units.

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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

According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. Transport for London and SF MUNI also. Gaps don't abate.

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Recreation planning and financing failure in Philadelphia: 11 of 12 public swimming pools have closed

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association.") Schools have playgrounds and other facilities which may or may not be open to the public. It's amazing to me that a city can actively destroy their public assets like these with few repercussions.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

My friend says there is no good public transportation from the airport to the city's major hotels. From the OBJ : The growing Iinternational Drive resort area currently has about 75,000 employees, a number projected to reach 100,000 in the next few years, which increases the need for a connected transportation system.