Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Sustainability and Environmental Resilience in Parks — Episode 163 On today’s episode of Open Space Radio, I’m excited to share our collab episode with GovLove Podcast, which we recorded live back in October at the 2024 NRPA Annual Conference. Related Links: NRPA’s Sustainability in Practice Program (Apply by November 15!)

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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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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Plummeting bus and train ridership, lost jobs, overflowing warehouses, more inequality: 2020’s disruptions to the transport sector were widespread and deep. Speaking at Transforming Transportation 2021, co-hosted by WRI and the World Bank, sustainable mobility leaders from around the world. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The City Fix

MARCH 22, 2024

If a picture can tell a whole story, then the image below of an intersection in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, shows the past, present and future of global transformation in the transport sector. During Transforming Transportation 2024, which focused on.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

It’s an initiative that echoes the necessity for our streets to be cycle friendly , forming part of the wider aim of creating smarter, safer and more sustainable towns and cities, says Mark Nicholson, Chief Executive Officer, VivaCity. For this to succeed, we need AI-powered data to deliver smart, safe and sustainable cycling.

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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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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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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

The COG is the union of local governments and designated by the USDOT as the region's metropolitan planning organization for regional transportation planning and coordination. And a more expanded concept of the "sustainable mobility dates to 2018 (" Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Framework ").

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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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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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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2023

But there isn't a rush to expand it, or to create conditions where sustainable modes are first choice for getting around. Transportation demand management as a priority. Transportation Management Districts as an implementation mechanism for trip shift. If you live within that transit footprint, it works decently.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In Asia, 14 countries — accounting for 26% of global transport emissions in 2019 — have made economy-wide net zero commitments. Momentum towards zero-emission transport is growing with countries enhancing ambition and including transport-related targets in their nationally determined contributions (NDCs). However,

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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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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.

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The City Fix

MARCH 20, 2023

After two years of unprecedented disruption to transport globally and two years of virtual conferences, Transforming Transportation returned to Washington, DC, March 14-15. More than 900 policymakers, experts and leaders in transport gathered at the World Bank Headquarters to explore.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Public transport is a powerful tool to curb climate emissions and to reduce dependence on private motorized vehicles – not to mention to provide more equitable and affordable access to opportunity for riders. But surprisingly few countries have made public transport part.

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The City Fix

MARCH 9, 2023

Transportation is a crucial enabler of economic development, providing people access to markets, employment, education, and health services. In addition to these development benefits, improving transport systems by making them cleaner, safer, more inclusive and more resilient accelerates climate action.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Digital technologies have the potential to make mobility systems more sustainable, intelligent, and inclusive. Islands, like other communities, are working to create effective and sustainable transport linkages. But they are subject to unique challenges, as they are often highly dependent on external transport linkages.

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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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