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As public transit agencies electrify their bus fleets and other vehicles, they must ensure a just transition to protect workers who may be put out of work by the new technologies, transportation labor groups warned Monday.
In a joint policy statement, leaders of two unions that represent transportation workers the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) and the Transport Workers Union (TWU), alongside the Transportation Trades Department of
the AFL-CIO (TTD) said transit agencies should be required to show the workforce impacts of buying electric vehicles (EVs), establish a national workforce training center to train current employees on those systems and guarantee that workers will be represented on task forces and committees around climate change and technology.
To maintain privacy, Replica s models are based on ‘synthetic populations’
Urban data platform Replica has secured US$41 million in Series B funding.
The round was led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, joined by previous investors including Innovation Endeavors, Sidewalk Labs, Rise of the Rest Fund and Firebrand.
Replica began as a project within Sidewalk Labs in 2017 and was spun out as an independent company in 2019. It gives city planners, transport authorities and private companies insights into how people move throughout a city as well as examining economic activity and changes in land-use and demographics, to inform policy and spending decisions.
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United Kingdom: FCA publishes feedback statement on Open Finance
Some of the key findings that the FCA draws out in its feedback statement are:
A legislative framework would be needed for open finance to develop fully, both to provide any statutory right to data access and to support a regulatory framework.
In addition to the regulatory framework, the following building blocks would be needed for a sustainable open finance ecosystem to develop – either in support of voluntary adoption or to support future legislation:
consumer protections informed by an ethical framework;
a liability model;
an implementation entity that is funded and governed equitably; and
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