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The Need for Economic Sustainability and Global Stewardship

Economic sustainability necessitates agricultural tradeoffs and changes to consumer behavior.

Urban SDK Advanced Training: Building Custom Maps in Studio

Urban SDK's Studio is a comprehensive GIS mapping tool that helps you tell better data stories. Here's a look at how you can leverage this incredible tool.

The Path to Environmental Sustainability

The path to environmental sustainability will entail breaking many of the systemic practices we currently take for granted.

Sustainability and the Challenge of Balancing Competing Needs

The concept of sustainability often comes with a complicated set of trade-offs between the environment, economy, and society.

How Technology is Accelerating Traffic Incident Management Practices

The current intersection of a smart technology boom and a safety epidemic on American roads has created the opportunity for new traffic incident management tech to shape safety practices nationwide.

Enhancing Traffic Incident Management through Policymaking

Departments of transportation can drive traffic incident management through policymaking and proactive collaboration.

First Responders: The Front Line of Traffic Incident Management

Following traffic incident management policies can help not only make roads safer, but also working conditions for first responders.

The Growing Need for Traffic Incident Management

Focus on traffic incident management has grown in the wake of the nation's national road safety crisis.

Comprehensive SS4A Safety Action Plan Checklist

All Safe Streets for All (SS4A) grants require a comprehensive safety action plan. This checklist ensures that your current plan meets funding prerequisites.

Practical Applications of Digital Twins

Digital twins are becoming ubiquitous and can now be used, effectively, in almost every major industry.

Everything You Need to Know About Procuring the $5 Billion in SS4A Grants

The federal government is awarding $5 billion in Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grants to combat a nationwide rise in traffic deaths.

Taming Bureaucracy With Digital Twin Technology

Given the vast amount of data produced by the government, the public sector is ripe to show the many use cases for digital twin efficiency.

Digital Twins are Creating a Paradigm Shift in the Insurance Industry

Digital twins have provided breakthroughs for this insurance field and have reshaped it from mitigation to prevention.

Unique Insight Into What's Possible: A Conversation with Plan Hillsborough

A wide-ranging conversation with Plan Hillsborough that proves when you get a bunch of big thinkers all in one room great things can happen.

Integrity Above All Else: A Conversation with KYTC

Urban SDK sat down with our clients at Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for a discussion that ranged from the importance of integrity to the true void excellent SaaS products can fill.

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