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?
Estimating transportation costs per person, calculating the floating population that travels through a certain sector and establishing their socioeconomic level, is essential to know exactly what should be the right location for a new station to serve customers who demand mobility services within the cities.
Every day there are more and more work teams and data driven companies that have found in Commercial Intelligence and Geomarketing solutions a possibility to reduce risks in new investments associated with expansion plans and opening of new service points.
Following the reform of government agreement 17-2020, the entry into force of the regulation requiring passenger and cargo transport units to take out civil liability insurance was delayed for one year in Guatemala.
After the Ministry of Communications announced the new protocols for passenger transport companies to operate, the transporters disagree with the sanctions that will be imposed on them when they fail to comply with the rules.
Ministerial Agreement 645-2020 was published, a document that details the circulation protocol that must be complied with by extra-urban passenger transport units, for the application of the Health Alert System for the covid-19 epidemic.
The government decided to extend the travel restrictions until April 27, but now the ban on people and vehicles applies only between 6 p.m. and 4 a.m. the next day.
Supermarkets, grocery stores and corner shops will be able to adjust to the new restricted hours, that is, from 4 a.m. to 6 p.m., as long as they ensure that their workers are in their residences before 6 p.m., President Alejandro Giammattei reported on a national channel.
Suspension of work for government and company workers, closure of businesses and shopping centers, as well as a ban on the operation of public transport, are some of the measures decreed in the country in view of the threat of the spread of covid-19.
Air, land and sea borders are closed throughout the country, and all sporting, cultural and social activities are cancelled, reported the Honduran presidency.
The bases for the concession of the public transport system by aerial cable, type cable car, that will connect the municipalities of Guatemala and Mixco, were published.
Guatemala Government Purchase 10972013:
"This proposed new system will move on national goods of common public use, without reducing lanes on the Roosevelt Road and will promote intermodal connectivity with bikeways and different types of transport, such as Transmetro mass transit, buses outside the western region, the future MetroRiel and Metro East-West, among other economic, social and environmental benefits.
The contract for access to the railway network was signed between the Municipality of Guatemala and Ferrovías, which will serve for the construction project of a Metro Riel, an estimated investment of $772 million.
On July 29th in a ceremony held at the Museo del Ferrocarril del Centro Histórico, it was reported that in addition to the signing of the contract for access to the railway network between the Municipality of Guatemala and Ferrovias Guatemala (Fegua), also signed the bases of coordination between the Municipality, Fegua and Anadie, which will facilitate the development of the project.
In the next few days it is planned to publish the bases of the pre-feasibility study for the construction of an underground metro in Guatemala City.
After being informed in November 2018 of the proposal to develop a metro that would connect in its initial phase the municipality of Mixco with Zone 15 of the capital, which will require an estimated investment of $700 million, now announces the start of procedures to conduct feasibility studies.
The very low-cost system that allows people to tele transport from one place to another will have to pay an additional fee to subsidize the old motorized transport system called taxi.
EDITORIAL
Jorge Cobas Gonzalez
Founder of CentralAmericaData
(A glimpse into the future...)
In this year 2119, the digital application Teletrans, already widely spread all over the world, is installed on the cell phone and allows the person holding it in the hand to indicate on the map the place to go, transporting it almost instantaneously to that destination. The cost of the trip is one cent of a dollar per kilometer, paid through the global system of digital money.
The same free market concept that led to a concession of a taximeter plate of almost zero original cost to reach a value of tens of thousands of dollars, must now be applied to the irruption of collaborative transport services.
EDITORIAL
Jorge Cobas González
Founder of CentralAmericaData
In Guatemala, the supply of the electronic collection system with contactless smart card for the Public Transportation of the capital and its areas of influence is tendered.
Guatemala Government Purchase 9530991:
"The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) within the framework of Project 59882-1827/18 "Metropolitan Development Programme of the Municipality of Guatemala" invites tenders for the acquisition of an electronic collection system with contactless Smart Card for the Public Transport of Guatemala City and its areas of influence, including goods, materials, tools, operators ( qualified labor), fuels, lubricants, equipment and transport, among others.
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.
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