COVID-19
Coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and government’s response to it, including its impact on digital service delivery, as well as how and where work is performed. Includes stories about technology’s role in vaccine distribution, as well as accelerating the transformation of state and local government operations using solutions like cloud computing, chatbots and data analytics.
The annual traffic congestion survey of Texas roadways in 2021 showed a near return to pre-pandemic traffic levels amid strong population growth. Meanwhile, development patterns and transportation systems remain car-focused.
The Transit Tech Lab, an initiative focused on bolstering transit recovery and sustainability, has selected six technology companies to conduct yearlong pilots across the New York City metro region.
A new report by StreetLight Data underscores how traffic patterns across U.S. downtown areas have been reshaped by the pandemic. Remote work and changes in travel preferences offer new challenges for urban planners and transit agencies.
As part of a long-term strategy to mitigate COVID-19, several school districts in Yakima County, Wash., have begun or completed major HVAC upgrades funded by federal ESSER funds, which are available through fall 2024.
Technology and transportation experts weighed in on the autonomous, drone and electrification technologies potentially needed to power the package deliveries of the near and distant future.
Research from top institutions, including the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Stanford University School of Medicine, show that new strains of COVID-19 are showing different symptoms from their predecessors.
A long-simmering issue of worker shortages in public transit became most apparent following the COVID-19 pandemic which saw a high rate of departing workers citing low pay and poor working conditions.
Chief data officers gathering at the Bloomberg CityLab conference in Amsterdam recently looked back on all those data dashboards so quickly built during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
At the State of GovTech 2022 conference in Virginia, investors detail how the industry is growing and changing, how entrepreneurs can make money in the industry and how chances for innovation are still wide open.
The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority is partnering with SHARE Mobility on a last-mile transportation solution for two suburban job centers where workers need better connections from transit to their destinations.
