The City Fix

JULY 19, 2023

The minibus taxi (MBT) industry is the backbone of South Africa’s public transportation system with a fleet of approximately 250,000 vehicles, operated by thousands of providers, employing some 600,000 drivers. MBTs account for 80% of all journeys taken by taxi.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

In turn, these insights have directly benefited the Navy Yard in their planning and daily operations. It provides PIDC with insights into additional infrastructure projects that need to be deployed to manage any changes in traffic as well. Additionally, the PIDC has been able to recoup costs from damage to its property.

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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 point of planning is to be proactive, not reactive.

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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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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 7, 2025

We know about congestion zones from cities like London and Stockholm, where motor vehicle operators pay a toll charge for entering the city core. Revenues from the congestion charge are earmarked for much-needed improvements to New Yorks ageing subway and other public-transport systems.

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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. There is a Friends of Philly Aquatics, but obviously they aren't a significant player.

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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. If it wasn't forthcoming, only then cut service.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

Why using old procurement methods is a problem Cloud computing presents a difficult choice for organizations: adopt and shift operating models to take advantage of its benefits or maintain the status quo and miss out. Additionally, change management is essential as teams shift left towards iterative development and automated deployments.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

When I travel from north London to my university I use public transport, which is of variable reliability. The problem is that procedural rigidity constrains us to use methods for harmless travel that are the same as those that apply to dangerous experiments and surgical operations.

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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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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The top eight selected finalists were Seoul Robotics , TRAINFO , Gridmatrix , Nota Incorporated , Lilin , Derq , Sentinel Transportation Systems LLC , and Roadway Management Technologies. Specifically, TRAINFO operates a hybrid data architecture utilizing Amazon Aurora and Amazon Neptune. Ultimately, the judges named Derq Inc.

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