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Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute a contract and any necessary documents including any necessary subsequent amendments, with Transnomis Solutions, of Ontario, Canada, to test a system to alert community members of traffic impacts in local neighborhoods via GIS and navigation applications, at no cost to the City, for a four-month pilot period. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested to enter into a contract with Transnomis Solutions for the creation of a public-facing, map-based, automated solution to publicize private construction activity in the public right-of-way to alert residents, businesses, visitors, and other stakeholders.
The Department of Public Works (Department) has been looking at opportunities to better inform the public when construction activity is being conducted throughout the City of Long Beach (City). The Department is searching for an innovative method to display data so that residents, visitors, and businesses are notified about anticipated traffic impacts and construction scheduling due to private development in the right-of-way.
This project aligns with the Smart City Initiative by allowing the City and a technology company to collaborate to address a civic challenge through data transparency and efficiency in service delivery. The four-month pilot period will be at no cost to the City.
This pilot opportunity is part of the City’s Smart City Challenge, which follows the principles of a challenge-based procurement, where City staff articulate their challenge without prescribing how they want it solved. It was powered by the Startup in Residence (STIR) program (
), which enables City Departments to collaborate with technology companies to address some of our civic problems. The pilot projects are intended to provide City staff with the opportunity to quickly understand how we might adopt technology and leverage partners...
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