Leveraging current and historical data on location movements allows urban planners to understand current challenges and build smart, flexible and efficient cities.
As more cities begin to implement smart city planning based on data science, location intelligence insights help shape policies that will benefit neighborhoods and the people who live in them.
By incorporating location intelligence into urban planning, it becomes possible to develop infrastructure adapted to the needs of citizens, enhancing living conditions in any given city. In addition, spatial data helps to optimize costs and prioritize government administration projects.
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In Guatemala, it is proposed to develop an underground metro that would connect in its initial phase the municipality of Mixco with Zone 15 of the capital and would require a $700 million investment.
The new project proposed is in addition to the several proposals and attempts that have been made to implement a mass transportation system in the metropolitan area of Guatemala, which resolves at once the serious problem of road congestion affecting the capital. Thus, in addition to the Metro Riel project and the urban cable cars between Mixco, Villa Nueva and the capital, a new initiative has now been added to build an underground train.
The Latin American Development Bank is calling for expressions of interest to carry out a feasibility study on the public transport system in the center of Panama City.
Public Purchase LAIF 202061471:
"The services which are the object of this invitation consist of carrying out the activities that are necessary to develop a Feasibility Study on the Public Transportation System of Panama City Center, which must contain, as a minimum, the following: proposal of a collective public transport system consisting of a tram as a structuring element and buses (or other modes) that feed and complement the former, for the city center.
Guatemala's taxi companies reacted to UBER's threat as any good entrepreneur does: innovating in order to improve and be more competitive.
In other countries taxi drivers are trying to resist the progress that the collaborative economy represents for users, relying on alleged"acquired rights"with the complicity of inefficient governments. In Guatemala, taxi companies have united and launched mobile applications that make life easier for their users.
Three underground railway lines with a large central exchange station is the basic concept for a project valued at $6 billion.
The Costa Rican College of Engineers and Architects (CFIA) started work on this project in 2014 and has now submitted it to the Ministry of Transport and Public Works (MOPT), in the form of a pre-feasibility study.
A call has been made for expressions of interest to develop a pre-feasibility study for a new network master plan for the Panama Metro system, with emphasis on lines 4 and 5.
From the announcement made by the Panama Metro Secretariat:
The general objective of the consulting services for a pre feasibility study for a New Network Master Plan for the Panama Metro System is to undertake pre feasibility analysis of the New Network Mater Plan for the Panama Metro, with emphasis on lines 4 and 5, starting from demand estimates developed under the TRANUS system, updating the MPSA database in terms of the physical, socioeconomic and urban development variables of the various corridors that make up the network.
Economic, political and public opinion factors seem to be lining up together making the new tram project for the capital San Jose have a good chance of coming to fruition.
EDITORIAL
The promoter of the project Johnny Araya, City Mayor elected for the period 2016-2020, who had previously headed the commune between 1998 and 2013, garnering, despite numerous allegations of irregularities in his management, a popularity that led him to run as president of the Republic in elections which he lost decisively against the current president Luis Guillermo Solis.In 2016 Araya was again elected mayor of San Jose, favored by the popular vote which sees him as one of the few Costa Rican professional politicians with executive management capabilities.
In Costa Rica there will never be a Metro, nor an urban electric train, nor any type of efficient public transport system simply because it does not suit the bus companies.
EDITORIAL
Lack of strong political leadership and a government with real capabilities is preventing Costa Rica from making the indispensable -and also inevitable- changes needed for it to regain its position as a leading nation in terms of economic and social development in Central America.
High rates of urbanization in the region, though with differences between the various countries in it, present great opportunities for economic development, generating business options.
From a report by the World Bank:
ABSTRACT
Central America is undergoing an important transition, with urban populations increasing at accelerated speeds, bringing pressing challenges as well as opportunities to boost sustained, inclusive and resilient growth.
Through a public-private partnership scheme the government is looking for land and a private developer to build a bus terminal for routes from Cartago to Curridabat.
From a statement issued by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport:
The Minister of Public Works and Transportation (MOPT), through its Public Transport Council (CTP), signed on Thursday, with the Municipalities of Curridabat and Cartago, a framework cooperation agreement to improve access to public transport.
A video released by the Metro Department shows details of the project which has the potential to enhance the development of an area that is already growing and whose population will have doubled by 2050.
The inclusion of the logo of the International Cooperation Agency (JICA) next to the Panama Metro Secretariat gives a certain confidence regarding the success of the realization of a work which is not only vital for the development of the area west of Panama City, but will confirm the direction of modernity that the country has turned towards since recovering the Canal in 2000.
The lack of a development plan for the long term greater metropolitan area of Costa Rica is the main factor affecting the speed with which the spaces with the best conditions for construction are being used up.
Because of the disordered and unplanned manner in which the greater metropolitan area (GAM) has been developed, we are fast running out of the best pieces of land on which to build urban developments, concludes the latest report by the State of the Union.
Free parking in Panama and heavy trains running through the streets of the capital of Costa Rica, are examples of some of the strange decisions taken by their governments.
EDITORIAL
While the rest of the world discourages the use of private cars as a means of transportation, increasing the costs of their use by setting, among other methods, high costs for parking in urban areas, in Panama, whose capital city suffers like any other city from the growing problems of congestion on the roads, the National Assembly recently passed a law that mandates free parking in "commercial parking lots of any kind or public offices where purchases are made, goods acquired or any services received. "
A group of engineers and experts from the construction sector have initiated studies to determine the feasibility of building a Metro in the capital.
The commission will examine the project which is being run by the Association of Engineers and Architects of Costa Rica (CFIA), whose director, Olman Vargas, noted that "... the concept is initially evaluating the construction of a subway carrying passengers from west to east (Pavas-Curridabat) and north-south (Guadalupe-Desamparados). "
Recognized Brazilian company of backhoe loaders, telescopic, articulated and other types of cranes looking for companies interested in representing the brand and distributing their machinery in Central America and Mexico. The company manufactures and sells telescopic,...