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Perspectives on Transportation Planning

First State Insights

Topics covered during this January 7, 2022 episode include steps Marilyn is taking to get to know Delaware; the role of social equity considerations in the MPO’s work; and interconnections among transportation, economic prosperity, and quality of life in our communities. Congressman Paul D. Tonko (NY-20). Congressman Paul D. Tonko (NY-20).

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Accelerating the secure exchange of public health data with AIMS, powered by Ruvos and AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

To support the swift exchange of critical health information across public health laboratories, governments, and organizations, APHL teamed up with Ruvos, a consulting firm and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner that specializes in health informatics and information technology, to create a secure messaging platform on AWS.

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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

Definitely this is another example of DC government's failure to focus and to be innovative. I prepared a sample data-focused infographic that could be a kind of dashboard for ward-specific transportation as part of my interview. ANCs need transportation/traffic safety committees. must step up on road deaths."

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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.

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Admittedly, many transportation agencies are investing a lot in urban design, livable streets, sustainable mobility, etc. To me, government is more about denying, saying no. From " Revisiting Vision Zero in DC and NYC ": Government has a bias for inaction*. And I've written about what I call a "bias for inaction."

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Foresight

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Everyday risk factors are different when floods, transportation crashes, landslides, toxic spills, structural collapses occur against a background of asymmetric warfare, armed insurgency, fighting or rampant terrorism. One question that is asked relatively rarely is why we exclude warfare from our definitions of disaster.

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Uber: criminal?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

124,000 files from Uber were leaked to the Guardian and they found that " Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals." And they did this at the expense of the success of public transit as well as adding to traffic and congestion even while arguing they did the opposite.

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