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5 benefits of modernizing transportation asset management software in the cloud

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. Reach out to the AWS team to get started.

Transportation

Transportation Management Constituents Sustainability

GOVERNMENT IS MORE THAN RED VS BLUE

Barrett & Greene

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

No surprise that an article jumped out at us from The New York Times that said early on: Voters across the political spectrum are disillusioned with a government that has become synonymous with Groundhog Day-esque spending battles, slow public works projects and political gridlock.

Government

Government Social Media Public Safety Public Administration

Nominations open for the 2024 American City & County Crown Communities and Exemplary Public Servants awards

American City & Country

OCTOBER 18, 2024

This is open to city, county, public works leaders at all levels of service. Forms for the Crown Communities and Exemplary Public Servants awards are live now on the AC&C website. Nominees are judged on their accomplishments and the impact these actions had on their communities.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Constituents Public Transportation Public Safety

AWS Partners help public sector organizations harness the power of data

AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Working with AWS Partner OpenGov on a new solution, Grand Island’s finance department saved 1,000 hours of manual labor—equating to half the time of a full-time staffer.

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FORT WORTH: THE TRAIN IS ON THE TRACKS

Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Back a year ago, for example, we wrote that phase one of the city’s efforts – notably priority-based budgeting (PBB) –involved three departments: police, human resources and transportation and public works.

Budgeting

Budgeting Transportation Strategic Planning Implementation

FORT WORTH: THE TRAIN IS ON THE TRACKS

Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Back a year ago, for example, we wrote that phase one of the city’s efforts – notably priority-based budgeting (PBB) –involved three departments: police, human resources and transportation and public works.

Budgeting

Budgeting Transportation Strategic Planning Implementation

Salt Lake City Capital Improvement Program process allows for citizen initiated projects

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Is separate from the annual appropriations process and is connected, in that primary funding source is the General Fund, but supplemented by other tax sources (special sales taxes usually), impact fees on new development, and transportation related funding. And the city and citizen-initiated projects use the same process, forms, etc.

Budgeting

Budgeting Transportation Economic Development Public Works

Another lost opportunity in parks planning: Joint Management Plan for Cromwell Valley Park; Lock Raven Reservoir; and the Northern Central Trail in Baltimore County

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2023

Loch Raven Reservoir isn't a park per se, it's part of the regional water system, and owned and operated by the Baltimore City Department of Public Works. Cromwell Valley Park is a Baltimore County park.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Management Stewardship Transportation

How Google Cloud is helping U.S public sector agencies during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

Google Public Sector

APRIL 3, 2020

You can learn more about our work here. Using a Google Maps interface, residents and visitors can subscribe to a targeted area, like their neighborhoods or workplaces, and define what public works and event information they’d like to receive (and at what frequency).

Public Sector

Public Sector Supervision Government Agency Coordinator

In extremis: what Ukraine 2.0 tells us about reforming government and the public sector

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JUNE 25, 2023

It is also a story freighted with insights about the way to conceive and prosecute systemic reform in governing and public work. The emergence of Ukraine 2.0 is not only an object lesson in silver linings in the darkest of clouds. reform movement.

Public Sector

Public Sector Government Leadership Accountability

Re-“View”ing How to Win BIL Grants

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

AUGUST 18, 2023

Nicknamed Justice40, this initiative challenges local governments and nonprofit agencies to actively engage people living in disadvantaged communities in participating in the planning of major infrastructure improvements such as bridges, public transportation, clean air and water initiatives, and more.

Fundraising

Fundraising Grant Writer Laws Public Transportation

Local Governments Tackle Software License Management Complexities

State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2025

I have more than 40 departments that are doing more than 40 different things, from policing and fire to homelessness solutions and water, transportation, public works. In the city of Dallas, Interim CIO Brian Gardner needs to manage software licenses for a wide range of products, across a massive base of users.

Local Government

Local Government Management Transportation Government

Cook County property taxes

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 17, 2024

urban past since the eighties has featured decreasing levels of public sector funding and involvement with urban affairs, Hennepin County voluntarily took on substantial additional financial and political commitments with this program. HCW began here in 1994 as a public works program initially intended to address declining property values.

Transportation

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Public Administration Today

5 benefits of modernizing transportation asset management software in the cloud

GOVERNMENT IS MORE THAN RED VS BLUE

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Nominations open for the 2024 American City & County Crown Communities and Exemplary Public Servants awards

AWS Partners help public sector organizations harness the power of data

FORT WORTH: THE TRAIN IS ON THE TRACKS

FORT WORTH: THE TRAIN IS ON THE TRACKS

Salt Lake City Capital Improvement Program process allows for citizen initiated projects

Another lost opportunity in parks planning: Joint Management Plan for Cromwell Valley Park; Lock Raven Reservoir; and the Northern Central Trail in Baltimore County

How Google Cloud is helping U.S public sector agencies during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

In extremis: what Ukraine 2.0 tells us about reforming government and the public sector

Re-“View”ing How to Win BIL Grants

Local Governments Tackle Software License Management Complexities

Cook County property taxes

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