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?
Heat maps are used by any business sector to identify foot traffic and vehicular mobility patterns in an area or point of interest, as their visualization presents multiple pieces of data in a way that makes immediate sense.
Heat maps can be used to identify foot traffic patterns from a country-level scale to a more detailed level such as the infrastructure of a store or building.
Location intelligence is revolutionizing the way companies establish, operate and expand their business.
From deciding where to locate a new store to analyzing foot traffic to gauge market competition, the use of location data is growing.
One of the key components of location intelligence is data related to points of interest (POIs). POIs indicate a specific location in an area of interest to businesses: it can be a store, a hospital, a university, or a corporate building, among others, depending on the information required for the particular target, helping companies make faster, more informed and cost-effective decisions.
On August 12nd and 13rd the Sixth Business Roundtable on Construction Materials between South and Central America will take place in Panama City.
Colombian companies will be showcasing at the Megapolis Convention Center in Panama City their offers of "... construction materials, furniture and wood, metal, tools and appliances to local and international buyers."
The contracts are for patching work, supervision, resurfacing of roads and main pathways, and bridge maintenance, among other things, on the national road network.
The Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing (CIV) is inviting bids for 430 road maintenance projects, through the Road Maintenance Fund, in which about $100 million will be invested.
The National Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers in Panama is putting out to tender the design and construction of a sewage and water treatment plant in Anton.
Panama Government Purchase 2014-2-66-0-02-007644-AV:
"DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF SEWAGE AND WATER TREATMENT PLANT IN ANTON, PROVINCE OF COCLÉ."
The deadline for submission of bids is March 20, 2014.
Corporación Salvadoreña de Inversiones is putting out to tender structural works and the installation of 300KVA substation in Puerto Corsain in La Union Bay, Gulf of Fonseca.
Government Purchase El Salvador LP-02-2014
"STRUCTURAL REPAIR AND CLEANING OF RAIL BEARING OF PUERTO CORSAIN BOATYARD, INCLUDING OTHER ADDITIONAL WORKS: SUPPLY AND INSTALLATION OF 300 KVA SUBSTATION AND REPAIR OF REINFORCED CONCRETE WALL."
The construction consortium has rejected the proposed solutions one by one, as they know that being replaced would be more expensive for the ACP than to acquiesce to its demands.
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The alleged light at the end of the tunnel that led to an agreement in principle to resolve the alleged illiquidity of Grupo Unidos por el Canal (GUPC), was dimmed when the consortium led by Sacyr and Impregilo returned to its extremist position: Pay the overruns of $1.6 billion, or the works will be halted.
The Ministry of Education in Panama is putting out to tender expansion works and improvement at various education centers.
Panama Government Purchase2014-0-07-0-03-LV-017176:
"PROJECT FOR COMPLETION IN TWO STAGES: DEVELOPMENT PLANS, ADAPTATIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS OF CLASSROOMS IN MODULES 3 (BEHIND GYMNASIUM) WITH TEN (10) CLASSROOMS AND 2 BATHROOMS ON THE FIRST FLOOR AND DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, APPROVAL OF PLANS AND CONSTRUCTION OF MODULE FOR WORKSHOPS USED FOR CONSTRUCTION, ELECTRICITY AND MARINE STUDIES, AS PART OF INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE PROGRAMS AT INSTITUTO TÉCNICO SUPERIOR IN COLEGIO I.P.Y. COLON IN THE PROVINCE OF COLON, DISTRICT OF COLON. "
The construction consortium has not carried out its threat to stop construction work at the end of the prescribed period, while Canal Administration prepares to take on the project.
And on Monday there were revelations of another proposal by consortium Grupo Unidos por el Canal (GUPC) for the continuation of the work, which was that the parties in conflict co-finance the so-called contingency costs, while they wait for a decision from the arbitration proceedings established in the contract, over who should pay.
Having glossed over the Bechtel report on technical deficiencies in the very cheap proposal made by Grupo Unidos por el Canal for the Canal expansion, the project could now turn out to be very expensive for the ACP.
At the time of the award of the construction works on the Panama Canal expansion to the consortium Grupo Unidos por el Canal (GUPC), the efforts made by the U.S.
As a precaution against the conflict not being resolved with the construction consortium, the Panama Canal Authority is already planning for the expansion works to carry on under its management.
The administrator of the ACP, Jorqe Quijano, announced that on Monday January 13 there will be a meeting with Zurich, the project's insurer, noting that the Canal Authority has $548 million available for the financing of the work in letters of credit and $442 million in reserve.
The facts seem to bear out what was said in 2009 -according to WikiLeaks- by the U.S. ambassador, who described Sacyr as "a bankrupt company sustained only by the Spanish government."
The dialogue regarding the cost overruns in the construction of the canal expansion project between the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) and the consortium Grupo Unidos por el Canal (GUPC)-initiated by the intervention of the Spanish Minister of Development- has been interrupted, and it is not longer the Spanish group Sacyr the spokeshead but instead it is now the other majority company in the Consortium, Italy's Impregilo, which is asking - via the media- for $1 billion from the ACP, while keeping up its threat to stop the work.
The Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers is putting out to tender the construction of a conduction line (South Hydraulic Ring) Radial - Tocumen.
The tender, which has a deadline for receipt of bids of February 7, is being organized by the Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers and will be granted by best value.