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.
What does location intelligence provide to urban planning?
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.
Fast-transit buses on motorways and small units to mobilize passengers within neighborhoods is part of what is contemplated in the plan to modernize the Nicaraguan capital.
The Master Plan for Urban Development in the city of Managua prepared by the Japanese Cooperation Agency (JICA) includes the restructuring of the public transportation system, from the reorganization of the routes to the incorporation of new transport systems with greater capacity and quality.
A proposal for urban development in the capital of Nicaragua would require an investment of at least $500 million in drains, street readjustments and redesign of the public transportation system, among other works.
Elnuevodiario.com.ni reports that "...The new Managua and its planning would be regulated by the use of land, as well as the type of activity that is carried out in the zone, which is why the city will have multiple centers and subcenters connected by transport routes, with efficient corridors that will allow rapid transport, with one of the symbolic axes being the corridor from the northwest of the lake to the roundabout of Ticuantepe.In turn they will have ring road, made up of main roads."
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.
A proposal put forward by the Japanese Cooperation Agency includes the construction of four exclusive lanes for public transport in four of the capital's busiest areas.
The proposal is part ofthe territorial reorganization plan for Managua, which is being worked on jointly by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency and the Mayoral Office of Managua.
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.
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.
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.
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. "
With an investment of $6 million, a card payment systems will be installed on buses, with operations starting in April.
The system aims to prevent drivers having to carry cash, as passengers will only be able to use the service through prepaid cards.
Ruben Altamirano, vice president of the Regional Union of Collective Transport Cooperatives (Urecootraco) noted that "carriers will not invest money in the installation of equipment or issuing the cards, but rather companies interested in the business will do so.
The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure is preparing the first National Transport Plan of Nicaragua, with the help of national and international consultants.
The Engineer Pablo Fernando Martinez, Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure, met with funding organizations such as the World Bank, the IDB and the company JICA to evaluate studies on the National Transport Plan.
The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a loan to improve efficiency and safety in transportation systems.
A press release from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) reads:
Nicaragua will improve its transportation system with an IDB loan
Nicaragua will improve the efficiency and security of the transportation system, and promote regional integration, with a $39.2 million loan approved by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).