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

AWS Public Sector Blog

This is a guest post by Rikesh Shah, outgoing head of open innovation at Transport for London, on behalf of the AWS Institute from Amazon Web Services (AWS), a thought leadership and executive education program to accelerate digital transformation for public sector executives.

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How Penn State built an all-in-one campus resource app on Modo Labs’ development platform using AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The right platform for efficient app development “We chose Modo Labs because it offered easy tools for creating a mobile experience that would help us consolidate all the resources that we had,” says Ryan Seilhamer, product owner of Penn State Go. Creating our own custom integrations was something that we didn’t see on other platforms.”

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AWS supports ARPA-H Sprint for Women’s Health to advance crucial research and solutions

AWS Public Sector Blog

“Support from AWS allows us to efficiently identify cancer markers that predict which patients benefit the most from this novel treatment and ultimately can help us develop a next generation drug that works even better,” said Jill Kolesar, Dean and Professor at the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy. The Aspira Women’s Health lab team.

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INRIX collaborates with AWS for generative AI hackathon during its annual ‘Innovation Week’

AWS Public Sector Blog

provides innovative services to organizations operating in the automotive and transportation sectors, offering real-time parking and traffic information and solutions for road safety. In this post, we discuss a highly successful customer hackathon we recently supported, called Innovation Week. INRIX: Transforming mobility INRIX, Inc.

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Creating intelligent city streets in Philadelphia Navy Yard with AWS Partner Rekor Systems

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2022, the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) initiated a pilot project to analyze traffic patterns and provide analytics within the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The PIDC is Philadelphia’s public-private economic development corporation and master developer of the historic shipyard, which is now a thriving, mixed-use campus.

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Protecting transportation agencies in the era of cybersecurity

AWS Public Sector Blog

United States federal agencies, such as the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Transportation Security Administration (TSA), are increasing their emphasis on cybersecurity. These technical controls, featured in the FBI CJIS Security Policy , can be seamlessly implemented in transportation solutions built on AWS.

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Working backwards from Vision Zero to improve road safety

AWS Public Sector Blog

In January 2022, the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) unveiled the National Roadway Safety Strategy , and Congress passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that includes a new Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant program. W ork ing B ackwards to Vision Zero. Identifying the core problems in road safety.