AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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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The City Fix

MARCH 9, 2023

Transportation is a crucial enabler of economic development, providing people access to markets, employment, education, and health services. In addition to these development benefits, improving transport systems by making them cleaner, safer, more inclusive and more resilient accelerates climate action.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

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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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Improving public information services To better serve their community, a state agency uses an LLM-powered chatbot enhanced with RAG to provide real-time, accurate information on public transportation schedules, public health advisories, and more.

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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The first installment will focus on effectively planning a public involvement initiative. From urban planning and public transportation development to local government projects, the public should always play a vital role in the decision-making process and have their voices heard.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 10, 2023

Vacant lots are often viewed as pieces within larger systems, such as urban planning or community development, or overlooked entirely. Redefining vacant land as a system also highlights the importance of engaging stakeholders in achieving community development goals.

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The City Fix

JULY 12, 2023

Particularly in developing countries, urbanization is unfolding quickly and often haphazardly. Today’s city leaders face a level of complexity and rapid pace of change that can be overwhelming. One in three urban residents worldwide lack adequate access to at least.

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Google Public Sector

JULY 5, 2023

Most importantly, Zurich is home to more than 440,000 residents who need functioning hospitals, public transport, and many other amenities in their day-to-day lives. Combined, these Anthos-powered CMP solutions make it much easier for us to manage Zurich’s application landscape and integrate new apps in a self-service manner.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In the US, arenas in Phoenix, Seattle, and San Francisco include free transit for ticketed events, not just for sports teams but concerts too (" Seattle Kraken expansion hockey team sets new standard for transit benefits in transportation demand management: free transit with ticket "). For Seattle it's all but ferry service.

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Social Pinpoint

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This final instalment will focus on the best tips to develop and share your public transportation engagement report. A common mistake in community engagement reporting is closing the feedback loop to build public trust. In addition, Social Pinpoint has great tips and examples of community engagement report development.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 15, 2023

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. But also schools.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MARCH 26, 2020

In reality, fighting disasters is a collective effort that places complete reliance of developing enough consensus for measures to work. It demands meticulous prior planning and the development of detailed scenarios before the phenomenon strikes. Against all odds, he wins. What nonsense!

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The City Fix

AUGUST 6, 2020

The large cities in the Latin American region all have one thing in common: the opportunities for employment and income are concentrated in a few districts while, more and more, sprawling housing zones are located on the outskirts of cities. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Google Public Sector

JULY 18, 2023

Most importantly, Zurich is home to more than 440,000 residents who need functioning hospitals, public transport, and many other amenities in their day-to-day lives. Combined, these Anthos-powered CMP solutions make it much easier for us to manage Zurich’s application landscape and integrate new apps in a self-service manner.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Public transport is one of the best, most cost-effective solutions available to address today’s climate and development challenges. Buses and trains can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by up to two-thirds per passenger, per kilometer compared to private vehicles. The UN’s latest.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

My friend says there is no good public transportation from the airport to the city's major hotels. Photo: Ryan Lynch, Orlando Business Journal.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 13, 2024

Currently, TheBus system is the least well developed of the suburban transit agencies (" By choosing coverage over frequency, Prince George’s caps what its buses can accomplish ," GGW). Change the name of the service and the graphic design of the bus livery. WMATA should upgrade its Metrorail station bus shelters.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 20, 2023

Riffing off of " Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando ," that entry mentioned that Brightline is developing a similar railroad service between "Los Angeles" and Las Vegas, called Brightline West. The first element is an integrated public transportation system.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

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. Though more initial effort, this avoids technical debt and perpetual inefficiency.

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The City Fix

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In the Wadala neighborhood of Mumbai, representatives from Kigali, Durban and Mauritius filed into a low, yellow-walled room. They took their seats in rows equipped with desktop computers. Ordinarily, these desks would be filled with the staff responsible for tracking real-time.

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The City Fix

MARCH 27, 2024

At COP28, global climate leaders congregated in Dubai for the annual opportunity to review countries’ progress on emissions reductions and to increase climate ambition. One of the conference’s focal points was how to rapidly and equitably transition away from fossil.

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The City Fix

JANUARY 3, 2025

Public transit is not only a vital network connecting people to jobs, services and one another; it’s also an important climate solution. The world needs to double public transit capacity by 2030 as part of its larger roadmap to slash planet-warming emissions.

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The City Fix

MARCH 22, 2024

If a picture can tell a whole story, then the image below of an intersection in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, shows the past, present and future of global transformation in the transport sector. During Transforming Transportation 2024, which focused on.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Located in the western India state of Maharashtra, the city of Pune has a rich history as a center of higher learning. In recent decades, Pune has transformed into a hub for the country’s software, automobile and electronics industries, leading to exponential.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of solar and wind power. Taken together, such stories.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

For the event, ITS organized a Global Innovation Competition sponsored by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to encourage the development of innovative solutions that address priority themes using cloud technology. Please reach out to the AWS Public Sector Team to help find the right program for you. Ultimately, the judges named Derq Inc.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JUNE 20, 2020

Front-line' workers include those who serve in hospitals, work in care homes, run public transport and deliver essential items. The scenario for a major pandemic was developed over the period 2003-2009 and was first incorporated into emergency plans close to the start of this period. Covid-19 is no different in this respect.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The COP28 climate talks began with a new fund to address the increasingly severe losses and damage vulnerable countries face from climate impacts and concluded with the first international agreement to tackle climate change’s main driver: fossil fuels. Those bookends to the Dubai summit.

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