American City & Country

AUGUST 30, 2024

Sustainability has been a talking point for cities and counties for decades, and the increasing impacts of climate change have added a sense of urgency to “going green” initiatives. To see which cities earned the top spots, as well as the metrics that got them there, click the gallery above.

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Sustainability Transportation 96

The City Fix

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Traditional, car-centric transport planning has not only increased greenhouse gas emissions, but has also detrimentally impacted air quality, road injuries and fatalities, and traffic congestion. As the world faces the climate crisis and continues to face a growing global road. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Sustainability Transportation Public Transportation Public Health 126

AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Infrastructure, or the built environment, encompasses all aspects of our lives: real estate, manufacturing, the systems that provide us with water and electricity, and the transportation systems we use to get from place to place. AWS Sustainable Cities Accelerator for infrastructure. Building these systems requires energy.

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Sustainability Public Sector Transportation Leadership 98

The City Fix

MAY 20, 2020

For many city leaders, more cars and more highways mean better transportation. But a safe, sustainable transport future does not include further dependence. And during the current pandemic, fear of COVID-19’s spread is pushing some to turn to private vehicles. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Transportation Sustainability 144

The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In the face of rapid urbanization, evolving mobility patterns and the looming climate crisis, the Sustainable Cities Challenge emerges as a pioneering initiative providing a catalytic approach to drive progress. Launched by the Toyota Mobility Foundation in collaboration with WRI.

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Sustainability Urban Planning Transportation Management 114

The City Fix

MARCH 10, 2023

Transportation connects us to one another. It’s how we get to school and work, how we visit our families, and how we access our food and health care. It’s also how we ship goods and deliver services. As economies and.

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Transportation Public Transportation Public Health Sustainability 114

Google Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Transportation leaders are facing challenges in providing safe and effective mobility. At their annual conference, the ITS World Congress in Los Angeles will bring together the intelligent transportation and future mobility communities – from automation and connectivity to mobility and digital infrastructure.

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Transportation Public Sector Operations Leadership 98

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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Public Transportation Sustainability Transportation Development 110

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.

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Sustainability Transportation Operations 90

The City Fix

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As a result, passenger transport activity has more than tripled, and energy demand more than doubled from 2000 to 2020. The transport sector is the third largest greenhouse gas. Vehicle ownership per capita has grown five‐fold in India since 2000.

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Transportation Sustainability 105

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It’s also an emerging solution to increase sustainable transit use and reduce congestion in urban areas. A mobility budget is an employee benefit that can help employers attract and retain talent.

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Budgeting Transportation Sustainability 113

The City Fix

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

After COP26, transport has reached an important milestone in the global climate conversation. Visit transformingtransportation.org to watch full sessions from the conference. And join the conversation on Twitter with #TTDC22. The electric revolution is underway and it’s now a centerpiece. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Transportation Public Transportation Communications Development 111

The City Fix

MARCH 30, 2023

China’s transport CO2 emissions accounted for 11% of the world’s transport greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, following only the United States (21%), according to data from Climate Watch. And these numbers have been growing rapidly: The average annual growth rate of China’s transport.

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Transportation Accountability Sustainability 98

The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

One thing is clear: around the world, public transport ridership declined precipitously and has not. The COVID-19 pandemic has made existing knowledge about how, why and where people travel largely obsolete. Even as some cities recover, travel patterns have changed. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Public Transportation Transportation Sustainability 98

The City Fix

JANUARY 19, 2021

For most Latin American and Caribbean cities, public transport is the single most important way to access opportunity and essential services for most urban dwellers, from finding a job to education. This blog is also available in Spanish on IADB.org. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Transportation Public Transportation Education Sustainability 98

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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Transportation Public Sector Social Media Development 98

AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

The right cloud technology leads to more sustainable IT and business operations. As a foundation for innovation, the cloud supports the delivery of sustainable products, services, and business models, and gives organizations the opportunity to transform themselves with sustainability at the core of their operation.

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Sustainability Operations Implementation Management 81

The City Fix

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Transforming Transportation 2022 will continue on February 17. The case for decarbonizing transport cannot be clearer: it’s the fastest growing sector of emissions after. Visit transformingtransportation.org to register and watch full sessions. And join the conversation on Twitter with #TTDC22. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Transportation Public Transportation Communications Sustainability 85

AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Innovation is key in achieving sustainability goals across the public and private sector. Two Nordic-based organizations are using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to reach ambitious sustainability goals. Sustainability cannot be seen as an outlying or standalone department.”

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Sustainability Public Sector Transportation Operations 81

Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 3, 2023

Furthermore, a study from Accenture found extending the lifespan of a mobile phone from 18 months to four years could result in a 40% reduction in CO2e emissions; a longer lifespan means fewer new phones need to be produced, thereby reducing emissions from manufacturing, transportation and disposal.

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Sustainability Education Regulations Implementation 98

The City Fix

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Those were just some of the solutions explored at the Daring Cities forum last week during two sessions on sustainable. Deliver goods more efficiently. Fastrack the development of alternative fuel technologies. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Sustainability Development Transportation 101

The City Fix

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

2020 brought tremendous disruption to the global transportation sector. As the world coped with a pandemic, millions began working from home and millions more lost their jobs. Logistics networks were broken and then reshaped. All while the planet experienced the. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Transportation Urban Planning Public Transportation Public Health 91

AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Authorities have shifted from being solely responsible for managing their assets and incoming vessels to managing more complex ecosystems, including the relationship between port operations and the environment, the relationship between ports and local sustainable economic development, and the relationship between ports and onward transport networks.

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Sustainability Public Sector Transportation Economic Development 72

The City Fix

MARCH 22, 2022

As the pandemic has changed the way we get around and purchase goods, the world is considering how to make transport more efficient and sustainable. We’ve seen increasing efforts to expand electric mobility, as governments formulate policies to stimulate adoption. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Transportation Sustainability Government Development 116

The City Fix

JUNE 24, 2021

The global coronavirus pandemic brought a wave of public and private initiatives to help societies adapt and recover, from economic stabilization and safety measures to new business models and shifts in consumption. Many of these initiatives are not green, despite. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Transportation Economic Development Public Transportation Public Health 129

The City Fix

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Can a city where pedestrians, cyclists and children get injured or killed on the roads be a truly sustainable one? Given the rapid urbanization of the world’s population, road safety is a critical development and sustainability issue. This episode of. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Sustainability Development Transportation 85

The City Fix

AUGUST 28, 2023

As cities become more congested, traffic fatalities continue to rise and the impacts of climate change escalate, the need for sustainable and safe transportation solutions has reached a critical juncture. The World Health Organization reports an alarming statistic: 186,300 children.

Transportation 98

Transportation Sustainability Urban Planning Public Transportation 98

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

AUGUST 30, 2022

In an interview at the M30 Mobility Summit, Navistar’s Michael Grahe shares his views on the latest developments in mobility.

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Transportation Development Sustainability 115

AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The project will leverage advanced AWS Cloud technologies, and will introduce smart solutions for mobility, primary healthcare, and the transport of goods, such as vessel monitoring and reporting from a coastline tower, and the delivery of blood samples and medical supplies via drone. Due to their geography, islands face several challenges.

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Sustainability Transportation Public Sector Economic Development 105

NLC (National League of Cities)

AUGUST 25, 2022

These new and expanded programs can support the improvement of transportation networks, as well as create opportunities for investments in safety and sustainability measures that can improve equitable access to nature for […] Source

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Transportation Laws Sustainability 59

The City Fix

AUGUST 6, 2020

The large cities in the Latin American region all have one thing in common: the opportunities for employment and income are concentrated in a few districts while, more and more, sprawling housing zones are located on the outskirts of cities. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Sustainability Housing Sanitation Public Transportation 130

The City Fix

APRIL 13, 2022

I recently had the pleasure of re-visiting Curitiba, Brazil, thanks to an invitation from the Smart Cities Expo. I made my first pilgrimage in 2000, when Bogotá was implementing its bus rapid transit system, Transmilenio, and returned twice after that. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Sustainability Implementation Urban Planning Public Policy 124

Reprogramming the City

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Urban Mining and Harvesting City Resources Can Create a Sustainable, Circular Economy. 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.

Sustainability 130

Sustainability Transportation Operations 130

The City Fix

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Long queues for public transport have become common sights during peak hours all over Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Under the hot sun or the heavy rain, people anxiously wait for the next public transport to arrive. Frustrated and eager to reach.

Public Transportation 69

Public Transportation Transportation Sustainability Development 69

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 94

Transportation Sustainability Operations 94

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.

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Transportation Sustainability Operations 93

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

APRIL 11, 2024

Getting K–12 students to school is a complex endeavor that requires significant investment and innovation. Stakeholders could face five key challenges within the next decade.

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Transportation Public Sector Education Sustainability 103