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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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What’s Going On with ARP Infrastructure Investment in North Carolina?

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

One difference is that in North Carolina there were no reported local government budgeted amounts as of last December for the sub-categories of Public Transportation, Roadways and Bridges, or Other Infrastructure. Public Space 12.5 Broadband 2.8 Green Infrastructure 1.0 Cyber Security.5

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5 Key Transport Challenges Facing Developing Countries and What to Do About Them

The City Fix

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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Vacant Land is More Than a Single Lot—it’s a System.

Center for Community Progress

Vacant Land and Transportation Systems Vacant land can become greenways and bike paths that connect different parts of communities, promoting active transportation and reducing reliance on cars. Community organizations might use vacant land for community gardens or creative placemaking projects.

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Transperth transit (Perth, Western Australia) provides free transit to certain events, like the Red Hot Chili Peppers concert on 2/12/2023

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

By contrast, apparently Public Transport Victoria (Melbourne) promoted transit to their concert too, but didn't provide expanded services and there were serious problems (" ‘Awful planning’: Unofficial Red Hot Chili Peppers concert after-party lifts commuter spirit ," News.com). This ad was in a Reddit thread.

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More remonstration about the molasses of change: Transit planning, Baltimore County, Maryland and Towson

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The assessment is one of the first out of 30 transit corridors the agency will study as part of its 25-year Regional Transit Plan aimed at improving public transportation in Central Maryland. The seven proposed “alternatives” were identified in a feasibility study completed in 2021. That could have been accomplished already.

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Re-Thinking Public Transit as “Micro-CED” with Wilson NC Leading the Way

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Los Angeles and the Puget Sound region in Washington state tested MOD-style programs to deal with the first mile/last mile barriers to using public transportation. The work was tracked in a series of research and evaluation reports by the non-partisan, non-profit transportation think tank, Eno Center for Transportation.