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 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 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. "
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.
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 Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food in Guatemala is putting out to tender the acquisition of materials and tools for the construction of water reservoirs.
Guatemala Government Purchase 3406326:
"ACQUISITION OF MATERIALS AND TOOLS FOR WATER RESERVOIRS WITH JAPAN 2 KR FUNDS."
The deadline for submission of bis is September 17, 2014.
The Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing in Guatemala, is calling for bidders for the expansion of the Official Rural Mixed Primary School, Aldea El Bran, and the Mixed Rural Caserío Chuvillil school.
Guatemala Government Purchase 3246906 Tender UCee -2-2014
"Expansion of Escuela Primaria Oficial Rural Mixta, Aldea El Bran, Conguaco, Jutiapa."
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."
$300 million is being claimed for breach of contract for the project to build power generation facilities in Guatemala.
Jaguar Energy Guatemala (JEG), has instigated arbitration with the firm China Machine New Energy Corporation (CMNC). The company is claiming $300 million for violations in the construction of a 300 MW plant in Escuintla. "The arbitration has been instigated with the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris and will be effected based on the laws of New York ."
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. "