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. This data will help us optimize aspects of our daily operations to improve the employee experience at the Navy Yard,” said Kate McNamara, PIDC’s senior vice president at Navy Yard.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Although it is widely recognized that gender disparities are echoed in the design and operation of urban transportation systems, gender-responsive transportation planning is still in its early stages. Drawing from the TOPUK project, which stands for “Women Accessing Public Transport,”.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Transit agencies also want to provide meaningful feedback to their operators by providing them with relevant context for their unsafe driving. The Agency responsible for public transportation in one of the largest cities in the US worked with AWS to track bus operators’ driving trends.

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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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The City Fix

MAY 30, 2023

To cut transport emissions, moving vehicles away from burning fossil fuels is a fundamental step. However, the e-mobility transition is not only an opportunity to reduce emissions but to modernize mobility across the board, from expanding access to public transport.

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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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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. Cyberattacks impacting physical infrastructure are no longer the only way to elicit response from DOTs.

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Human Transit

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Paul Comfort, Conversations about Equity and Inclusion in Public Transportation, Comfort Consulting, 2022. One Australian leader is interviewed, but she talks mainly about hiring and workforce diversity, not transit policy or operations.) Now and then, you’ll also get hints of debates about the definition of success.

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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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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

MARCH 26, 2024

After decades of experience with diesel vehicles, cities and operators need to understand the technical and operational specifications of e-buses to. The adoption of any new technology involves some degree of adaptation, and battery electric buses (e-buses) are no exception.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

However, these applications will not operate smoothly unless IoT-based strategies for developing smart cities have a database as their foundation. Mobility and connected transit: Monitoring public transport can improve safety and hygiene. The role of the database and data platforms.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 6, 2024

The study offers policymakers, operators and transport planners, powerful insights into what motivates a person’s transport decisions within and between cities. For commuters, 60% of journeys involve a car, and 60% involve another mode of transport. Hitachi train. Hitachi tram (light rail), Turin, Italy.

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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. Final thoughts The public cloud introduces new considerations to procurement beyond just cost.

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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. From an AWS Lambda function, you can call Amazon Location to perform geocoding operations.

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The City Fix

APRIL 17, 2020

Cities have curtailed many public transit operations because of declining ridership and health. As the world works to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 3.9 billion people are under full or partial lockdown orders, as of mid-April. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 18, 2023

So far, local governments have budgeted a little over 60% of their total SLFRF funds across a wide range of service areas, with the largest share going to government operations. Public Space 12.5 The data reflect adopted budgets only, not proposals or expenses. Broadband 2.8 Green Infrastructure 1.0 Cyber Security.5

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

In transportation, it means that private parking resources are usually not addressed in parking planning (" Testimony on parking policy in DC ," 2012), private sector operators aren't addressed in planning for various modes. In solid waste, it means that the agency only plans wrt residential waste pickup for houses of 1-4 units.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Specifically, TRAINFO operates a hybrid data architecture utilizing Amazon Aurora and Amazon Neptune. Neptune allows TRAINFO’s AI models to reference the transportation network in its true network form. Citi Logik helps governments drive action on transportation insights with AWS.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Mostly it's because elected officials roll over in the face of angry motor vehicle operators. In response, MTA in Baltimore is providing free transit (" Maryland Transit Administration to offer free public transportation this weekend ," Baltimore Sun ).

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The City Fix

JULY 15, 2024

Do informal transport networks in African cities provide equitable services for everyone that needs them? Operators frequently prefer to drive the safest and most central routes, inadvertently prioritizing commuters traveling to formal jobs in. Unsurprisingly, the answer is often no.

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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. It's amazing to me that a city can actively destroy their public assets like these with few repercussions.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The added density will not be sufficient to make the development and operation of affordable housing feasible unless a tax incentive like 485-x is available. This can lead to more multifamily buildings, enhancing housing access near public transportation.

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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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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JULY 20, 2022

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.

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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

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

APRIL 27, 2024

I have Esso maps with a map of the London Underground, at least two New York City maps (Esso, Texaco) showing the Manhattan part of the NYC Subway, this map, an Exxon Map showing public transportation of the United States, along with highways, and and British American Oil map of Toronto with a small drawing of a TTC subway entrance.

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The City Fix

JANUARY 19, 2023

For decades, the city of Peshawar, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northern Pakistan, has been rocked by wars and acts of terrorism that disrupted public safety and made it difficult to plan the city’s growth. A particularly challenging consequence.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Avoiding another CrowdStrike Traditional operating systems, such as Windows, have complex architectures that are susceptible to system-wide failures and rely heavily on software updates and patches from a whole suite of third-party companies that can, and have, introduced new issues.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 31, 2023

Mostly, a master plan only covers what the government controls or operates, and usually ignores for profit services, and often, franchised services. Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal) It turns out that in New Jersey, a number of "public transit" routes are actually operated by private carriers , not necessarily with public subsidy.

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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. From the OBJ : The growing Iinternational Drive resort area currently has about 75,000 employees, a number projected to reach 100,000 in the next few years, which increases the need for a connected transportation system.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JUNE 23, 2025

Among the challenges that AV executives face in the region: higher regulatory standards, limited investment capital, and competition from extensive and convenient public transportation options. One of the biggest problems public transport will face in the coming years is a shortage of bus drivers.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 21, 2025

of US adults use public transportation to get to work, according to 2022 data from the Census Bureau, down from 5% in 2019. -- article Only 3.1% That year, almost 76% of Americans said they drove alone to work, a number that fell to 68.7% in 2022 as more people reported working from home. I've suggested DC create TMDs since about 2006.

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