The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) is a heavy-rail public transit system that extends across five Northern California counties, has 50 stations located on 131 miles of track, and carries thousands of passengers every day. A recent move to a cloud-based data and analytics platform empowered employees to conduct their own analyses and create dashboards for insights into everything from ridership patterns to preventative mai...

Public transit is key to revitalizing urban centers as cities focus their post-COVID recovery efforts. In most places, that means bus transit. And transportation leaders across the country are looking at programs to make their buses run more effectively and efficiently. One important way cities are improving their bus network is by creating or expanding bus-only or transit-only lanes. Some transit agencies have partnered with their Department...

Infrastructure is what makes cities livable and prosperous. It’s the roads, bridges, buildings, stoplights, schools, broadband lines and more that make communities work. These critical assets impact our lives every day and connect us in ways large and small. What if your city could gain a deeper understanding of the infrastructure it has today and what it needs to build tomorrow? On Aug. 31, Government Technology will host a live webcast...

Managing your shared vehicle fleet is an ongoing challenge for cities and counties. Keeping track of available vehicles, scheduling maintenance and monitoring driver access all require significant staff and resources. Unfortunately, many local governments still manage motorpool fleets using outdated technology, requiring repetitive manual entry and other mundane, time-consuming tasks. Keyless technology and a motorpool solution are important...

Open to Private Sector only. The Center for Digital Government’s IT market analysts and key government leaders will share insights into the state and local space and pinpoint opportunities, trends and issues to help you fine-tune your business strategies and validate your sales and marketing activities. You will: Hear firsthand from panels of leading state and local CIOs and government executives about opportunities, emerging trends and...

The U.S. transportation network is a critical asset. Traffic operations centers, air traffic control towers and mass transit control centers are essential to the safe and effective movement of people and goods. But these systems are also highly capital and infrastructure intensive, requiring constant monitoring and upkeep. What happens when an event like COVID-19 disrupts the transportation sector? How do leaders respond effectively to a disas...

Government Technology’s passion is helping spread best practices and spurring innovation in the public sector. The New York City Technology Forum is designed to do just that. The forum has an advisory board that gathers public sector and private sector leaders to create an agenda designed to make that passion relevant and actionable to the state and local government organizations attending the forum. Participants tell us they use the ins...

Government Technology’s passion is helping spread best practices and spurring innovation in the public sector. The Mississippi Digital Government Summit is designed to do just that. The summit has an advisory board that gathers public sector and private sector leaders to create an agenda designed to make that passion relevant and actionable to the state and local government organizations attending the summit. Participants tell us they us...

GOVERNING’S Summit on the Cost of Government is an invitation-only gathering of public officials to confront the structural problems in government and explore the path forward. After the recession, where do states go from here? What are the smart strategies to accelerate recovery, restore stability and create sustainable growth as governments go through a fundamental reset of the way they do the public’s business? The answers matte...