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WMATA's latest bus improvement program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

When I first saw coverage I thought, "what about the 2017" initiative, although granted it was before covid. is discussed by WTOP, " Metro’s future of bus service could bring new routes and end some familiar stops." And when thinking about writing about it, I remembered a bus initiative back in 2006 too.

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " Route 7 BRT proposal communicates the reality that the DC area doesn't adequately conduct transportation planning at the metropolitan-scale ," 2016 -- " Reviving DC area bus service: and a counterpoint to the recent Washington City Paper article ," 2019 7.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. The exercises revealed, for example, that special attention needed to be given to protecting the residents of care homes (PHE 2017, pp. Pandemic Influenza 18-to 20 October 2016. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. Exercise Cygnus Report.

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Accelerating economic research at UBC with high performance computing using RONIN and AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

When Leyton-Brown and Newman began research into the computationally complex auction theory behind the 2016 United States wireless spectrum auction, their ML models required significantly more computing power than their on-premises infrastructure could provide.

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City of Toledo Mayor Hopes Move to PBB Will Restore Faith in City Government

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

“Part of the process we learned in today’s exercise is to be in better communications with the citizens,” Mr. Sobczak said. It will include recommendations and data that could be used to help create the city’s 2017 budget, she said. City Finance Director George Sarantou asked all city directors to start writing their budgets for 2017.

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Districts are adept at outbound communications but have struggled to manage inbound messages as communications channels expanded beyond phone calls and mail to include texts and emails that can be sent around the clock, the report said.

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NBA All Star Game in Salt Lake, economic development hype | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the Pirates baseball team economics

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Based on this assessment, the total economic impact of Utah’s 2023 All-Star Weekend is projected to be at least $250 million, according to Caroline Klein , chief communications officer of the Utah Jazz. million in total economic impact. A table tent promoting the NBA All Star Game at Level Crossing Brewing Company. That's a crock.