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4 Lessons on Increasing Transport Mitigation Ambition in China

The City Fix

Abating China’s transport sector greenhouse gas emissions, which accounted for about 11% of the world’s transport emissions in 2018, is key to meeting both national and global climate goals. In 2021, China updated its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), outlining ambitious.

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Bus stops as neighborhood focal points and opportunities for placemaking

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The New York Times has an article on a bus shelter public art project, " Watching for the Bus Stop Gallery." 9, the artist, whose home base is Brooklyn, will be giving people something to think about during their own public transportation journey, or purgatory as the case may be. From the article: Starting Aug.

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Why the creation of smart cities requires real-time data processing

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Mobility and connected transit: Monitoring public transport can improve safety and hygiene. This is over six times the amount processed in 2018. Facilities management: Smart buildings rely on IoT-based sensors to improve energy efficiency, such as by automating light controls and enhancing the use of space to reduce costs.

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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

VVs, or Verkehrsverbund, are German "transport associations" that are organized at the regional scale to plan, coordinate, and deliver transit services in an integrated fashion. --" Verkehrsverbund: The evolution and spread of fully integrated regional public transport in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland ," Ralph Buehler, John Pucher & Oliver (..)

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Brightline West should also be used to transform public transit service in Las Vegas

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The first element is an integrated public transportation system. In Las Vegas it would mean bringing together the RTC, Las Vegas Monorail, and private services including taxi and shuttle services, Brightline West, the Nevada DOT, and probably the Airport and Convention Center in an overarching German style transportation association.

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Defining deviance down: Disorder and cities in 2022

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Council to decriminalize fare evasion in 2018. The solutions aren’t easy for Metro or its transit police department, which has been accused of disproportionate enforcement against Black residents, leading the D.C.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. My friend says there is no good public transportation from the airport to the city's major hotels. But it's quite impressive in two ways. It's being built relatively quickly. Photo: Ryan Lynch, Orlando Business Journal.