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Discover how AI transforms the power grid by enhancing reliability, improving resiliency, and driving sustainability. This webinar will provide insights into how AI applications can manage, plan, and optimize transmission and distribution grids. Additionally, with the growth of AI increasing the electricity demand, we will explore how the industry can keep pace with this rising demand. +
This event explores the intersection of technology transformation, artificial intelligence (AI), precision medicine, and the Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare. +
Cities and states are acting to slow progress of the COVID-19 pandemic by shuttering all nonessential businesses, closing schools, and urging residents to hunker down at home. As a result, ridership has fallen off for many mass transit systems across the country — light rail, streetcar, buses and ferries — as officials work to keep service running. +
Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is a planning and development approach that seeks to create compact, mixed-use, and pedestrian-friendly communities centered around high-quality public transportation. TOD is becoming an increasingly popular urban development strategy in many cities around the world as cities grapple with issues of urban sprawl, traffic congestion, and air pollution. The goals of TOD are to create more sustainable, livable, and vibrant communities that offer residents access to a range of amenities and services within a walkable, transit-oriented environment. +
National transportation systems are a network of roads, highways, railways, airports, and waterways that enables the movement of people and goods throughout and between countries. They are complex system that includes various modes of transportation, such as air, rail, road, and water, and are essential to the functioning of the country's economy. +
As a Destination Marketing and Management Organization, Travel Portland focuses on generating travel demand that drives economic impact for Portland. +
This project intends to develop and implement a plan to increase the supply of local food available to residents of the Pittsburgh food shed (200 mile radius) in several states. By using a data-driven strategic plan as a guide, it envisions a series of targeted interventions to increase the number of producers, add to the variety of the local food inventory, create and enhance aggregation entities to the distribution system, reduce choke-points in supply chains, expand the number of distribution opportunities, and organize consumer demand in ways that improve the equitability of the food system. +
TriMet, formally known as the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon, is a public agency that operates mass transit in a region that spans most of the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon. +
Hop’s open architecture allows TriMet to capitalize on changing technologies or falling costs, avoiding expensive, cumbersome negotiations with a proprietary systems integrator that is set-up to profit from changes to the fare payment system over time. +
The capital and most populous city of the state of Georgia. With an estimated 2019 population of 506,811 it is also the 37th most populous city in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to more than 6 million people and the ninth-largest metropolitan area in the nation. Atlanta is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia. Portions of the city extend eastward into neighboring DeKalb County. The city is situated among the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and has one of the highest elevations among major cities east of the Mississippi River. +
Best Practices Trip to Austin TX (March 2001) +
Boston is a unique city, in that historic preservation is extremely important in its development . +
Elements of Brooklyn’s revival – lower crime rates, public planning and investment, extensive existing transit system, existing housing stock proximity to the jobs and wealth of Manhattan – are unique to the area, but familiar variations on stories of urban revival in many other cities including Portland. +
Buffalo has had a history that basically has put them at the top and the bottom of the prosperity scale. Once thriving, with a population of 580,000, the city now has just 250,000 residents. The metro population of 1.1 million is less than half the size of metro Portland (2.6 million) +
Charlotte is a major city and commercial hub in North Carolina. Its modern city center (Uptown) is home to the Levine Museum of the New South, which explores post–Civil War history in the South, and hands-on science displays at Discovery Place. Uptown is also known for the NASCAR Hall of Fame, which celebrates the sport of auto racing through interactive exhibits and films. +
Chicago presenters had passion and commitment to city’s agenda +
With over 50 million inhabitants Colombia is the third-most-populous country in Latin America, and the world’s third-most populous Spanish-speaking country. Its population is ethnically and linguistically diverse, with its rich multicultural heritage reflecting influences by several Amerindian civilizations, Spanish settlement, forced African labor, and immigration from Europe and the greater Middle East. Urban centers are concentrated in the Andean highlands and the Caribbean coast. +
Denver, the capital of Colorado, is an American metropolis dating to the Old West era. Larimer Square, the city’s oldest block, features landmark 19th-century buildings. Museums include the Denver Art Museum, an ultramodern complex known for its collection of indigenous works, and the mansion of famed Titanic survivor Molly Brown. Denver is also a jumping-off point for ski resorts in the nearby Rocky Mountains. +
On October 24th, a 50+ person delegation from the Portland region traveled to Detroit for its annual Best Practices trip. Detroit is engaged in a multi-faceted, complex plan to reinvent itself. During the trip, delegates examined the challenges, issues, and opportunities facing Detroit. +
Houston is a large metropolis in Texas, extending to Galveston Bay. It’s closely linked with the Space Center Houston, the coastal visitor center at NASA’s astronaut training and flight control complex. The city’s relatively compact Downtown includes the Theater District, home to the renowned Houston Grand Opera, and the Historic District, with 19th-century architecture and upscale restaurants. +