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EDM digest
Supply logistics after a major disaster is often complicated because the infrastructure that once supported the supply chain is suddenly impaired or destroyed. Resource management and bringing supplies to a devastated area are a critical component of emergency management efforts. There are often logistical issues involved when supplies do not arrive promptly. Security problems may also ensue.
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City Lab
Of all the challenges that riding the bus can present to riders, few seem as easy to correct as abysmal signage. From simple omissions of useful facts, to total illegibility, to plain nonexistence, bad signs are pervasive in public transit. Rail systems are no stranger to this — looking at you, Penn Station — but the problem is especially rampant in city bus systems, which often get the least amount of aesthetic and infrastructural attention from their municipal overseers.
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Next Gov
Fifth generation wireless technology, or 5G, is anticipated to usher in an entirely new age of wireless connectivity. Billions of devices — self-driving cars, service robots, smart devices inside homes, wearable technology and sensors on streets — will communicate and create massive troves of sensitive data. Government and technological leaders working at the forefront of America’s 5G deployment efforts are excited about its potential but new concerns arise as well. Each new device will be an attack vector that adversaries could use to access entire networks.
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Route Fifty
Rather than focusing on the cost to address American infrastructure needs, Congress should rethink its priorities in spending, infrastructure policy experts recently told a House Committee. The estimated cost to address the U.S.'s infrastructure backlogs is $4.6 trillion. But as nobody expects the Trump administration and Congress to come together on a big infrastructure package and lawmakers remain embroiled in an ongoing debate over how to pay for transportation projects that can no longer be supported solely through the existing federal gas tax, the House Budget Committee recently heard from policy experts advocating for an overhaul of how the federal government approaches infrastructure projects.
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Insurance Journal
Women are quicker to take cover or prepare to evacuate during an emergency, but often have trouble convincing the men in their life to do so, suggests a new University of Colorado Boulder study of how gender influences natural disaster response. The research also found that traditional gender roles tend to resurface in the aftermath of disasters, with women relegated to the important but isolating role of homemaker while men focus on finances and lead community efforts.
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Government Executive
How do behavioral science approaches fit into the broader ecosystem of government improvement efforts? More specifically, what is being done to foster organic growth in the understanding and use of these approaches in the public sector? And how do we bridge their use between academics and practitioners? David Yokum, a pioneer in the field, says: “Applied research can be remarkably difficult, as theories often fail to work in practice.
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Governing
Much of the discussion about the 2020 U.S. Census has been dominated by President Trump’s push to add a citizenship question, as well as critics who say he’s doing so to undermine the count. But officials across the country are also grappling with conducting a Census in a country and world that have drastically changed in the past decade due to an acceleration of technology and new online threats. Basically, when the 2020 U.S. Census arrives next spring, it will be seeking to accurately count a vastly different country than the one it surveyed 10 years ago.
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Claims Journal
Unless it’s Sunday, Kelly Loew is steering her rusty red Jeep down the same mail route in Shingletown, California, as she has six days a week for the last seven years. But she delivers less mail these days as California’s persistent wildfires drive residents away. In 2018 California experienced its deadliest and most destructive wildfire season. Shingletown, nicknamed Little Paradise, is one of the state’s most wildfire-vulnerable communities. Despite the National Interagency Fire Center recording federal fire suppression costs quadrupling since 1989, the damage caused by wildfires has increased fivefold.
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