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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Since 2005 or 2006 I have been recommending that the city create Traffic Management Districts as a way to coordinate transportation management and improvements at the commercial district scale (e.g. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.). Vision Zero.

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To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Another example is the taxi collectif program of the STM transit system in Montreal , which operates at end of line stations. The transit network concept I worked out is based on how Arlington County, Virginia, in their 2005 Trasnportation Plan, defined a Primary and a Secondary Transit Network. Tertiary Network concept.

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Pathology digitization and the fight against cancer

Google Public Sector

In 2019, we published a paper in Nature Medicine about using advances in 3D volumetric modeling and artificial intelligence (AI) to better predict lung cancer. In 2005, AFIP’s biorepository was transferred to the newly created Joint Pathology Center (JPC). During the transition, the DoD asked the U.S.

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How Xavier University of Louisiana’s migration to AWS is creating a “technology renaissance”

AWS Public Sector Blog

The university IT infrastructure had not been updated or improved since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. When I first arrived in 2019, the IT infrastructure had been neglected,” says Moore. We now have everything that we need to operate fully remotely if we need to,” she says.

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Public sector customer service and the adoption of cloud technology

Open Access Government - Technology News

When I think about how things have changed, I have to cast my mind back to 2005 when as a Civil Servant, I co-authored ‘Better Practice Guide- lines for Government Contact Centres. Our proven ability to deliver seamless services across multiple channels, 24×7, is intrinsic to our public sector service offering.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Five | Planning for Public Art as an element of facilities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: “We have big ambitions for the arts program here, which is to be New York’s pre-eminent public art destination,” said Clare Newman, the president and chief executive of the Trust, a nonprofit organization created by the city to develop and operate the island as a recreational and cultural resource. Photo: Donald Yip. “We

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Later, I realized that along the lines of thinking about transit as a network operating at different scales I propose a metropolitan scale as the foundation, usually heavy rail and railroad, and then center city and suburban (sub)networks within it. This should have been done as part of BRAC planning, something I first suggested in 2005.)