AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

This is a guest post by Rikesh Shah, outgoing head of open innovation at Transport for London, on behalf of the AWS Institute from Amazon Web Services (AWS), a thought leadership and executive education program to accelerate digital transformation for public sector executives.

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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. Hamburg's transport association is the model.

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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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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

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Mostly it's because elected officials roll over in the face of angry motor vehicle operators. There needs to be a lot more focus on raising the number of people cycling for transportation. It claims that protected bike lanes are being removed across the country because they don't work. Although I will say that lanes are not enough.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 31, 2023

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. Passengers board an A&C Bus Corp No.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Data, and the ability to process it rapidly and seamlessly, is crucial to the connected, intelligent networks that provide the lifeblood to today’s cities and the transport systems that link a nation’s cities together. Mobility and connected transit: Monitoring public transport can improve safety and hygiene.

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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 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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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. Cool train branding designs though for Tri-Rail.

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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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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 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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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This year, the Intelligent Transportation Society (ITS) World Congress brought together more than 6,000 industry professionals from 64 countries to discuss ways to advance the deployment of intelligent transportation technologies to save lives, improve mobility, promote sustainability, and increase access to communities across the globe.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JULY 20, 2022

Local governments commonly provide on-demand services for special populations – for example, older adults or those needing para-transport. 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.

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