American City & Country

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Since 2004, the Crown Communities awards have recognized government projects with long-term implications for a city/county/municipality and its constituents. The Exemplary Public Servants awards were created in 2018, and since then, AC&C has selected exemplary leaders based exclusively on merit.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Fleet managers can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to ingest and analyze fleet driver data. In this post, we will share how a large public transit agency in the United States (referred to as “Agency”) worked with AWS to create a proof-of-concept (POC) to analyze operator behavior and improve its visibility of sudden acceleration-based events.

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The City Fix

MARCH 3, 2021

In some ways, cities are like households: they must make adjustments in spending based on cash flow. If your income is cut in half, then you may have to dramatically rethink your standard of living. COVID-19 has hit many households. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

To manage the rising urbanisation of smart cities, city planners and managers must turn to real-time data processing. By 2030 it is expected that 28% of people worldwide will live in a city with at least one million inhabitants, according to a report on urbanisation by the Government Office for Science. In England alone, 82.9%

Social Media 116

Social Media Transportation Security Sustainability 116

Government Technology Insider

AUGUST 5, 2024

DOTs are frequently one of the biggest agencies in a state government, making them attractive targets for threat actors looking to provoke a significant reaction. Damage or interruptions to public transportation affect all community members but have a disproportionately large impact on lower-income groups.

Transportation 86

Transportation Security Public Transportation Constituents 86

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 23, 2024

I wrote a piece suggesting something similar for the Ballpark neighborhood of Salt Lake (" Creating 'community safety partnership neighborhood management programs as a management and mitigation strategy for public nuisances: Part 3 (like homeless shelters) ," 2020). Parks conservancies as more engaged parks managers.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

These early-stage companies were given the chance to engage funders, private companies, governments, and other leaders at the ITS World Congress Event to facilitate bold ideas around using technology to advance safer, greener, and smarter mobility solutions. Citi Logik helps governments drive action on transportation insights with AWS.

Transportation 130

Transportation Sustainability Public Sector Public Transportation 130

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 7, 2025

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the citys transport system and some suburban lines, hopes that the scheme will reduce traffic in these areas by 10-20% (traffic in central London fell by 18% in the first year). for the city to go it alone.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

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. To do this, navigate to the request page in the AWS Management Console.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

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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Super Library Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2023

His dad is managing to make ends meet, but there isn’t a lot of money left over for things like vacations or extra-curricular activities. Terrance doesn’t have a car, but he’s been using public transportation all his life. You may do this by researching census data or other data available from your city or town government.

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Social Media Transportation Budgeting Public Transportation 131

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. Build a FinOps Robust financial governance is vital for cloud success.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

But it's a demonstration of a quirk in planning generally and transportation planning specifically. Mostly, a master plan only covers what the government controls or operates, and usually ignores for profit services, and often, franchised services. The ferry allows for the saving of a lot of time by users.

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Transportation Public Transportation Operations Sustainability 52

Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 10, 2023

Here are some examples of how vacant land can integrate with other systems, like transportation, stormwater management, and economics, along with neighborhood life. These projects can help manage stormwater runoff, reduce the urban heat island effect, and improve air quality, among other benefits.

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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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Transportation Community Engagement Engagement Public Transportation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 15, 2023

I have become enamored with the idea that "master planning" by government agencies should cover the entire sector of responsibility, including other government agencies as well as private sector entities. Schools have playgrounds and other facilities which may or may not be open to the public. But also schools.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 12, 2023

With the muscular computing capacity and deep-learning capabilities to help optimize an elaborate web of systems and interests – including transportation, infrastructure management, energy efficiency, public safety and citizen engagement – artificial intelligence can be a game-changer in the mission of modernizing urban development.

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Human Transit

JANUARY 27, 2022

He is a Bus Rapid Transit expert and an eloquent advocate for sustainable and just transport planning, and is also one of the nicest people I know. In the 2000s was a key advisor to the project that created Transantiago , a government agency managing all public transport in the capital region.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

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.

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The City Fix

MAY 8, 2024

Mexico became the first nation to declare access to safe mobility a human right in 2020 and two years later passed the General Law of Mobility and Road Safety to protect people, reduce collisions and promote sustainable modes of travel. Now, with this new.

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Laws Sustainability Urban Planning Local Government 103

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

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 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

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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Transportation Public Transportation Communications Sustainability 52

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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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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Transportation Accountability Public Transportation Development 52

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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Transportation Development Economic Development Education 52

Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

With essential services becoming ever more integrated with technology, accidents like this prevent citizens from booking doctor’s appointments, paying bills, taking public transport and more. The post Chromeos flex: Addressing profile 2 tech challenges on a budget appeared first on Open Access Government. International.

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Budgeting Security Public Transportation Sustainability 96

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 failure of emergency planning is perhaps the greatest error made in the management of the Covid-19 disaster. Covid-19 is no different in this respect.

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The City Fix

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Public vehicle fleets, which include everything from city buses and school buses to garbage trucks and law enforcement vehicles, make up a significant share of traffic on U.S. There are 645,000 vehicles in the federal fleet, 500,000 in state fleets across the.

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Laws Local Government Public Transportation Transportation 69

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This is an issue in the UK, because 10+ years of austerity have crush public agencies and local governments--some have lost as much as 2/3 of their budget, at the cost of public libraries, health care, maintenance of streets, sidewalks, parks, etc.

Public Safety 52

Public Safety Public Transportation Voting Transportation 52

AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 20, 2025

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) , the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Public Digital announced the recipients of the Future of Government Awards 2025. A selection committee of public sector digital leaders from around the world chose winners from the nominations received.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 14, 2025

In short, I argue that for transportation demand and system management goals, transit in the DC area should be free on Inauguration Day. See " A broken record on transportation demand management planning, this time with regard to special events." in this case Monday January 21st, 2013. Free transit on bad air days.

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