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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Public Transportation Transportation Operations Social Media 104

American City & Country

AUGUST 26, 2024

Alternative forms of student transportation provide options for districts that need to supplement their current bus transportation to best serve their students’ needs. There are multiple ways to procure alternative transportation. How many students are we expecting to transport under this contract?

Transportation 52

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

AUGUST 3, 2022

Road developers and operators have a unique position in the transport industry and can enable significant change around lowering emissions.

Transportation 105

Transportation Operations Development 105

State Tech Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

Smart counties involve large-scale operations and have multiple jurisdictions, presenting unique smart technology challenges and opportunities. Counties play an essential role in managing certain services, including transportation, water systems, public health, law enforcement and infrastructure, which provide opportunities…

Public Health 122

Public Health Laws Transportation Implementation 122

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JANUARY 30, 2023

Now commercial transport operators need to identify the best way to capture value. The economics of decarbonizing fleets are demonstrably viable.

Transportation 98

Transportation Operations 98

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

AUGUST 3, 2022

Einride’s founder and CEO discusses how autonomous technology and digital infrastructure can decarbonize the difficult-to-abate freight industry.

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Transportation Operations 105

GovPilot

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

When it comes to the quality of public transportation, many cities that were once notable for their advanced public transit are seeing their infrastructure age rapidly, whereas other cities and townships (especially in rural areas) unfortunately lack the infrastructure altogether to operate modernized and useful systems of public transportation.

Public Transportation 52

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

United States federal agencies, such as the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Transportation Security Administration (TSA), are increasing their emphasis on cybersecurity. Recently, the TSA issued a new cybersecurity amendment in response to persistent cybersecurity threats. to only authorized customer personnel.

Transportation 52

Transportation Security Public Sector Operations 52

Data.gov

APRIL 4, 2017

For many Americans, maritime transportation plays a role in their daily commute to work. Understanding usage patterns and operational expenditures at different ferry operators can help transportation planners learn more about how ferries are used in different parts of the … Continued.

Operations 52

Operations Transportation 52

GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our nation’s critical infrastructure includes sectors that provide essential services, such as electricity, health care, and transportation. These sectors increasingly rely on internet-connected technologies to support their mission and operation.

Transportation 100

Transportation Operations 100

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 1, 2023

But overall, this is the failure of the "metropolitan planning organization" system in the US, which coordinates transportation across a region--and in Southern California the counties are so big they each comprise separate MPOs--because they often don't have the most basic requirements for coordinating uses with transportation and transit capacity.

Transportation 52

Transportation Management Coordinator Development 52

American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The firm aids organizations in transportation electrification, including the shift to EVs. He says the transition to EVs offer a promising avenue for reducing operational and maintenance costs. Additionally, electricity as a fuel source is generally cheaper than gasoline or diesel, leading to further operational savings.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

As they consider where to allocate these funds, public infrastructure owners, especially Department of Transportation (DOT) and public works agencies, have to assess the condition of their assets, determine what to prioritize while rebuilding, and identify what needs maintenance.

Transportation 52

Transportation Management Sustainability Constituents 52

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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Public Sector Transportation Public Transportation Public Safety 124

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.

Transportation 52

Transportation Coordinator Budgeting Sustainability 52

GCN

AUGUST 26, 2022

The Ohio Department of Transportation is testing its uncrewed traffic management system that would allow drones to operate at low altitudes beyond the operator's line of sight.

Transportation 88

Transportation Operations Management 88

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.

Transportation 52

Transportation Public Transportation Operations Sustainability 52

AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

As the number and size of satellite constellations in orbit increase, satellite ground segment architectures must modernize to maintain agility, operational excellence, and economic viability. Traditional ground segment architecture composed of antenna, modem, front end processor, and mission operations software backend.

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Transportation Operations Implementation Accountability 128

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.

Transportation 81

Transportation Operations Public Transportation Management 81

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.

Public Transportation 98

Public Transportation Transportation Budgeting Operations 98

Reprogramming the City

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A new model is transforming the way we think about resources in the city—a more sustainable, circular approach that realizes the byproduct and outputs of the city’s daily operations are a valuable source of raw material. It is an illustration of the potential created by the overlooked and unsung operations of the city.

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Sustainability Transportation Operations 130

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Commercial transport operators can take action now to decarbonize their fleets and start to lower their total cost of ownership.

Transportation 81

Transportation Operations 81

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2023

The State Department of Transportation, which probably should be called the Utah Department of Cars and Trucks, has a proposal to widen I-15 through Salt Lake City to Farmington in Davis County to 6 lanes in each direction--it's four lanes now. Transportation demand management as a priority. I was talking with Suzanne about this and 1.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In the government sector , digital twins can be particularly useful in optimizing the performance of essential infrastructure, such as transportation networks, power grids, and water systems. It can also be helpful in other scenarios like transportation networks, power grids, and water systems.

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Public Sector Operations Transportation Security 131

AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Accessing, processing, and sharing data at the tactical edge has become increasingly essential to mission success – whether the mission is a large-scale military operation, crisis response effort, or coordinating the transportation of critical supplies and troops. AWS MDC is available to U.S.

Public Sector 105

Public Sector Transportation Coordinator Communications 105

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.

Transportation 80

Transportation Public Sector Public Transportation Sustainability 80

GCN

JULY 6, 2023

COMMENTARY | Securing the hardware and software systems in power plants, water treatment facilities, transportation systems and other critical infrastructure calls for network visibility, vulnerability assessment and holistic strategic and incident response plans.

Security 52

Security Operations Transportation 52

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

AUGUST 3, 2022

Deutsche Post DHL’s head of sustainability for German Post and Parcel discusses how the logistics industry can work to decarbonize road transportation and meet consumer expectations.

Sustainability 110

Sustainability Transportation Operations 110

Open Access Government - Technology News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

37 ITARO (Integrated TMA, Airport and Runway Operations) to further close the gap between Industrial Research & Development and (pre-) deployment, aiming at greener flights and improved traffic predictability and flight efficiency (e.g. Executing the IM operation was very easy and straightforward for the pilots. Under the PJ.37

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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.

Operations 52

Operations Public Transportation Public Health Transportation 52

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

AUGUST 3, 2022

Welcome to the August 2022 edition of Voices on Infrastructure, which focuses on technology and sustainability in freight transport.

Transportation 105

Transportation Sustainability Operations 105

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

AUGUST 3, 2022

Sustainable infrastructure investments in freight transport are growing—and new innovations and markets are paving the road to the future.

Transportation 105

Transportation Sustainability Operations 105

Google Public Sector

MAY 9, 2023

Transportation agencies face the challenge of managing heavy amounts of data from diverse and high-velocity sources. It can be difficult to gather insights across the disparate sources, let alone be fast enough to inform operational decisions. Once they consolidated data into BigQuery, new use cases started to emerge for KYTC.

Transportation 89

Transportation Public Sector Operations Accountability 89

State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2024

From healthcare to education, from transportation to defense, AI is enabling new levels of efficiency, innovation and impact. 2023 saw the emergence and rapid advancement of generative AI, which has the potential to significantly alter the ways government operates and interacts with citizens.

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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.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Operations Transportation Sanitation 52

AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Proving regulatory compliance and providing information to supervisors and management for decision-making requires extensive manual processes to review observations and readings on plant equipment and storage; especially when operating around 6,000 miles of gas mains and providing natural gas to approximately 500,000 customers.

Operations 52

Operations Public Sector Transportation Local Government 52

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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Transportation Public Transportation Public Administration Communications 83