Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 18, 2023

A significant benefit of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP) for North Carolina CED professionals is the availability of funding for investment in water, sewer, and broadband infrastructure though the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRS). Where and how is that local government money being invested?

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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. By the end of 2022, 63 percent of journeys fulfilled these criteria.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Agency responsible for public transportation in one of the largest cities in the US worked with AWS to track bus operators’ driving trends. Their goal is to curtail unsafe behavior and instill better driving habits.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This equals approximately 7 billion trips per year, making school buses one of the most widely used forms of public transport in the United States.  More than 20 million students in the United States ride school buses every year. But those trips aren’t always.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Citi Logik helps governments drive action on transportation insights with AWS. Stockholm Public Transport transforms its ticketing system with the AWS Cloud. Transporting people and freight more efficiently with cloud-based technologies. How the Port of Long Beach addresses supply chain challenges with AWS.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JULY 20, 2022

How can local government make it easier for citizens to be mobile – a boon for citizens, businesses, government and community services alike? Local governments commonly provide on-demand services for special populations – for example, older adults or those needing para-transport.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 10, 2023

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. Example: Work-Live Spaces Vacant Land and Neighborhoods Vacant land touches the neighborhoods it exists in, through direct proximity.

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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 5, 2022

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. This new service was slated to launch in fall 2021 – just a few months later.

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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.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 12, 2023

City life features the mingling of automobiles, pedestrians and even pets, and considerations such as public transportation, bicycle traffic and rush hour surges complicate any optimization project. So, too, do the grids and topography that are unique to every city.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

But they aren't organized into an overarching association, in a manner comparable to how Germany organizes regional transport associations to coordinate the planning and delivery of transit services. And it's not particularly systematic.

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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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The City Fix

JULY 28, 2022

Abating China’s transport sector greenhouse gas emissions, which accounted for about 11% of the world’s transport emissions in 2018, is key to meeting both national and global climate goals. In 2021, China updated its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), outlining ambitious.

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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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Social Pinpoint

AUGUST 28, 2022

Throughout Dallas’ history, public transportation, housing loans, development investments, and even utilities like broadband internet have not been equally distributed among neighborhoods. In Dallas, old policies, programs, and methods of decision-making have contributed to location-based disparities, also known as spatial inequity.

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The City Fix

AUGUST 16, 2023

With cities facing population growth, changing work patterns, the climate crisis and ever-widening inequality gaps, improved transportation systems are critical. City governments and local leaders are uniquely positioned to foster innovation to serve public needs. Teaming up with private sector.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Cities are home to more than half the world’s population: 4.4 billion people commuting, working, eating, shopping, and using light, heat and air conditioning. As a result, cities collectively produce over 70% of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions warming the planet.

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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

JUNE 5, 2023

In March 2023, the White House announced its federal budget, including funding for a groundbreaking initiative: the Active Transportation Infrastructure Investment Program (ATIIP). The program is unlike anything the U.S. has supported in the past as it will provide matching.

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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

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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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

AUGUST 18, 2023

Nicknamed Justice40, this initiative challenges local governments and nonprofit agencies to actively engage people living in disadvantaged communities in participating in the planning of major infrastructure improvements such as bridges, public transportation, clean air and water initiatives, and more.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 31, 2023

You'd think that because there is a statewide transit agency in New Jersey, NJ Transit, that they would have a way of responding to this--not unlike how in the 1960s and 1970s privately owned transit companies ended up being acquired by local governments, because they wanted to maintain the services even as the companies shut down.

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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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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.

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