Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

Transportation Demand Management programming The reality is, especially in a place like Salt Lake, most people drive. The idea is that intra-district transportation, especially by SFH residents, could be shifted to shuttles rather than by car. The lots are metered, the city collects the revenue, and maintains the lots.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Moving around cities in a variety of ways is getting easier and more convenient: whether it’s improved public transportation systems, wider sidewalks or more dedicated bike lanes. With the rise of smartphone technology and GPS, shared mobility services — like.

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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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Government Technology Insider

AUGUST 5, 2024

Renewed investment and interest in transportation infrastructure has empowered state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) to modernize not only roads and bridges, but digital infrastructure such as data and information systems. Cybersecurity is not only a technological best practice, but a key component of equitable service delivery.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A new digital platform being piloted in cities around the world is making public transportation more efficient, economical and accessible, while encouraging low-carbon travel. Mobility-as-a-Service is an on-demand service that integrates various forms of transportation services into a single platform accessible.

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State Tech Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2022

As New Jersey Transit CISO, Rafi Khan is responsible for protecting data at one of the largest public transportation agencies in the United States. It’s not an easy job, he admits, and he won’t divulge any big department secrets for keeping the world’s bad actors at bay.

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The City Fix

MARCH 11, 2024

Urban development in many cities around the world prioritizes making space for cars over pedestrians, cyclists or public transportation. In Brazil, this design led to an average of more than 30,000 annual road crash fatalities nationwide by the turn of the century,

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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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American City & Country

OCTOBER 18, 2024

If it has made an impact, nominate it.

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The City Fix

MARCH 8, 2024

For a woman living in an African city, public transport can be a daunting experience. Women usually plan their trips in advance, and consider a multitude of factors before setting out: What is the safest way to reach the bus.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

City dwellers worldwide are shifting lifestyles as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in terms of transport. As cities begin to re-open, urban planners and designers are rethinking urban and transport infrastructure to adapt to a post-pandemic world. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In this new three-part blog series, follow Adrienne Hamilton’s journey to get a client-side view of successful project planning, launching, and reporting of a public involvement initiative for transport. The first installment will focus on effectively planning a public involvement initiative.

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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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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. To manage these levels of urbanisation, city planners and managers are turning to modern technologies and cutting-edge networks , leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) to support ‘smart city’ solutions.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

The COG is the union of local governments and designated by the USDOT as the region's metropolitan planning organization for regional transportation planning and coordination. Hamburg's transport association is the model. I first understood the DC area transit planning gap in two dimensions.

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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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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MARCH 29, 2023

lifts [elevators] blocked: people possibly trapped in them trains stranded: people possibly stranded in them traffic control inoperable: possibility of accidents and queues at road junctions critical facilities (hospitals, police stations, etc.)

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The City Fix

MAY 17, 2021

In densely urbanized Hong Kong, transport is the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, at 18%. Vehicle traffic is also a major source of toxic air pollutants like NOx, volatile organic compounds and carbon monoxide, accounting for 18%, 21%. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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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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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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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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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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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. By removing one of the major concerns around technology, i.e. cybersecurity, even less adept and new users can feel safer about going online.

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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. Transportation situation (Do they have their own car or do they use public transit?)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

One of my points about master planning is that for functional areas: transportation; parks and recreation; culture; etc., 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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In the US, arenas in Phoenix, Seattle, and San Francisco include free transit for ticketed events, not just for sports teams but concerts too (" Seattle Kraken expansion hockey team sets new standard for transit benefits in transportation demand management: free transit with ticket "). For Seattle it's all but ferry service.

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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. Though more initial effort, this avoids technical debt and perpetual inefficiency.

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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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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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Human Transit

JANUARY 27, 2022

My friend Professor Juan Carlos Muñoz Abogabir is Chile’s new Minister of Transport. 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. And it has the perfect transport leader for the moment.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

The first proposes a "transport association" based on the German VV model, where all the local transit providers commit to integrated service, and a common schedule and fare system. My friend says there is no good public transportation from the airport to the city's major hotels.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 12, 2023

Artificial intelligence can be a game-changer in the mission of modernizing urban development, especially when it comes to transportation infrastructure Planning and maintaining communities in the modern world is as simple as threading a needle with an elephant. So, too, do the grids and topography that are unique to every city.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 13, 2024

Another aspect of the balkanized transit system in the DC area is that every jurisdiction has a different program for bus shelters--what Ivan Bennett, product design manager for the London bus program, calls "a lack of continuity." WMATA should upgrade its Metrorail station bus shelters.

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Social Pinpoint

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In this new three-part blog series, follow Adrienne Hamilton’s journey to get a client-side view of successful project planning, launching, and reporting of a public involvement initiative for transport. This final instalment will focus on the best tips to develop and share your public transportation engagement report.

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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. Clearly, such a plan would be immediately invalidated by disruption to normal transportation schedules. I then have to cross a busy four-lane arterial road. I would have to resort to awareness and common sense.

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Google Public Sector

JULY 5, 2023

Most importantly, Zurich is home to more than 440,000 residents who need functioning hospitals, public transport, and many other amenities in their day-to-day lives. Combined, these Anthos-powered CMP solutions make it much easier for us to manage Zurich’s application landscape and integrate new apps in a self-service manner.

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