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How Fort Worth Moves Millions

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The city of Fort Worth accommodates millions of people across 13 counties, jurisdictions, and transportation entities, working closely with hundreds of stakeholders. To outline and plan the future of transportation, the city created a dynamic, data-driven...

How GIS Is Powering LA Metro’s Vision 2028

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Government innovation typically focuses on agencies and how better internal processes can reshape their missions. These supply-side innovations concentrate on legacy structures and administrative requirements. This approach tends to produce services that...

How Tucson’s Equity Experts Are Changing the Way Cities Work

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Tucson is pioneering a new approach to city services by using data and an Office of Equity to ensure every neighborhood gets the support it needs, setting an example other cities can follow.

Seeking Better Parking Data, Boston Breaks Up its Giant Contract

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In the world of government contracting, requests for proposal, or RFPs, are rarely exciting to anyone but the company who wins the work. But city leaders everywhere should pay attention to a creative RFP issued by the city of Boston earlier this year. It...

Policy Change, Technology Key to Better Curb Management

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This article originally appeared in Government Technology. As cities confront a falloff in revenues compounded by competition from a wide range of new uses for curb and sidewalk space, the time has come to appropriately price parking and other uses at the...

A Catalog of Civic Data Use Cases

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How can data and analytics be used to enhance city operations? What kinds of operations-enhancing questions have cities asked and answered with data and analytics? The catalog below is an ongoing, regularly-updated resource for those interested in knowing...

Good Data, Better Technology, Best Practices: How LA Metro Uses GIS

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In this episode, host Stephen Goldsmith interviews Anika-Aduesa Smart, the director of GIS at LA Metro. Smart shares her path to this work and how her extensive experience informs her people-first approach - and her mantra "good data, better technology...

Pioneering GIS Excellence at LA Metro

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Some of the world’s best discoveries have been accidents; sticky notes, penicillin, the chocolate chip cookie. For Anika-Aduesa Smart, one of her best professional discoveries was an accident as well, one that she built into an impressive career in...

How a Dedicated Innovation Team Can Tackle ‘Good Problems’

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May 10, 2024 Innovation This article originally appeared in Governing magazine. Leaders of government at all levels who aspire to create innovative organizations always need help. That help might come from borrowing and adapting the ideas of another...

SFMTA: Transportation Access, Equity and Economic Opportunity

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Few obstacles create as obvious a barrier to economic mobility as lack of access to a job. In urban areas, that lack of access tends to be geographically concentrated in communities of color. One of the first cities to formally recognize this problem was...