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.
In Costa Rica, the construction of a tower with apartments and commercial space on the first level is foreseen; it will have rooftop amenities, green areas, and parking space.
The interactive platform "Construction in Central America", from the Trade Intelligence Unit of CentralAmericaData, includes an updated list of public and private construction projects that have submitted environmental impact studies (EIA) to the respective institutions of each country.
In Guatemala, a building with eighteen stories for eighty-five apartments will be built, with a construction of ten thousand square meters.
The interactive platform "Construction in Central America", from CentralAmericaData's Business Intelligence Area, includes an updated list of public and private construction projects that have submitted environmental impact studies (EIA) to the respective institutions in each country.
The first of the five buildings that will form part of the La Lima Corporate Center was launched in Cartago, which will require a global investment of close to $98 million.
The project in charge of the real estate company Garnier & Garnier, is a complex of offices that is constructed in a plot of eight hectares in the industrial park La Lima, and contemplates the construction of up to five buildings of four floors each one, informed the Costa Rican Coalition of Initiatives of Development (Cinde).
In Panama, growth in water consumption is putting pressure on reservoirs and forcing the design of new alternatives for improving infrastructure, starting with the creation of new reservoirs.
Data from the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) indicates that 350 million gallons of water are currently being consumed per day, an amount that it was thought would not be reached until 2025.
The ENADE 2016 event will be held on October 6 and will have as its central theme the promotion of economic development in non-urban areas.
The main topic to be discussed at the meeting will be promotion of the development of "intermediate cities" to bring remote rural areas closer to urban areas where productive development has historically been concentrated.
With funding from two international banks, Transportadora de Energía de Centroamérica will develop the Transmission Expansion Plan 1-2009.
"...As soon as the Expansion Transmission Plan (ETP) is finished, more than 30 power plants will be able to connect to the new energy transport system, contributing to the diversification of the energy network and reducing rates by an estimated 25%, according to the authorities in Guatemala's electricity sector. "
Facilities have been enabled to approve cadastral plans digitally without requiring the physical presence of surveyors and property owners at the offices of the National Registry.
The new initiative known as Approval of Topographic Plans (ATP) has made the process of approving cadastral plans in Costa Rica digital, as from now on the physical presence of surveyors and property owners on the premises of association of Engineers and Architects (CFIA) or the Land Registry will no longer be required reported that union.
A project to build prisons in Jutiapa, Guatemala, Santa Rosa and Escuintla is waiting for congressional approval and budget allocation.
The Ministry of Government in Guatemala has already completed the plans and the projects for the construction of four new prisons. The Planning Department reported that the sum needed is $64.6 million (about Q500 million) in order to start pre-feasibility studies, feasibility studies and early construction work.
The companies A & D Design, Grupo Bebasa and the Consortium RODASA-NYR Villa Olga presented bids in Panama to build the apartment building Viviendas Barraza.
Three bidders are competing for the award of the project for an apartment building in Barraza (in Calle Prospero Pinel and Diciembre 20), in the amount of $7.4 million, in the tender called by the Ministry of Housing and Land Management (Miviot).
After four years of stagnation and with the works only 25% complete, the construction of the Manuel Amador Guerrero Hospital in the province of Colon has been reactivated.
From a statement issued by the Presidency of the Republic of Panama:
After resolving legal disputes with the company running the project, Consorcio IBT, which led to work stopping for almost four years, on 25 January the construction of Manuel Amador Guerrero Hospital of the Atlantic coast was reactivated, with the cost of the work estimated at around $160 million.
The Consortium TRANSEQ La Estrella will carry out the work at Tocumen International Airport in Panama for $7.8 million.
Tocumen International Airport awarded the contract for $7,842,880.75 for the design and construction of one of its aircraft parking platforms, located next to the airport's fire station.
With a lead time comprising 540 calendar days, the work will be carried out by the Consortium TRANSEQ La Estrella, winner of the public tender in which Constructora Rodsa SA and Constructora V & G SA also participated. For this project, which will occupy a more than 17 thousand square meters, Tocumen International Airport set a reference value of $7,265,382.73 million. "
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