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How cities can use transport data to reduce pollution and increase safety

AWS Public Sector Blog

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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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

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. 15 years ago I first wrote that WMATA needed to rebuild the regional consensus about the value of transit: -- " St.

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Vision Zero initiatives on the decline: Cache County Utah shows another way

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Cache Valley Daily reports, " Local stakeholders to host transportation safety summit at Logan Library ," that the MPO there is holding a traffic safety conference next week, to support its plan to reduce crashes and deaths. Other cities have had mixed to negative results from similar initiatives.

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Urbanism obituaries, 2022 | Death clusters of people, buildings and organizations as an indicator of institutional failure

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Recently, I thought about demolition of historic buildings in cities like Detroit as deaths, and that they were worthy of a listing in my annual article on "Urbanism-related Obituaries (2022)." Doubling down on place values ," 2022 (this entry has 20+ links to other posts) Deaths of newspapers. Mention this a lot.

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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

Inadequacies in school transportation planning ," 2022 -- School Walk and Bike Routes: A Guide for Planning and Improving Walk and Bike to School Options for Students -- Safe Routes to School program , Washington State -- City of Tacoma SRTS program , including SRTS Action Plan -- Starkville in Motion A failed job interview with DDOT.

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The Inland Empire’s Industry Resilience

The Lowe Down

in September 2022. The Inland Empire is usually more affected by recessions than Los Angeles County, according to the 2022 State of the Region report. <paramname=’animate_transition’ value=’yes’ /> This graph shows the differences in industry growth and employment between July 2019 and July 2020.

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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

The first proposes a "transport association" based on the German VV model, where all the local transit providers commit to integrated service, and a common schedule and fare system. Cool train branding designs though for Tri-Rail. I have five foundational pieces on organizing transit at the regional and multi-state scales.