SMART VEGAS: A FORWARD-FOCUSED PLAN

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SECTION 1 REALIZING THE FUTURE

Smart Vegas focuses on innovative delivery of critical services to address pressing modern city challenges such as rapid expansion, tourism growth, strained infrastructure, increased carbon emissions, demand for mobility choices, and a need for improved motorist, bicyclist, and pedestrian safety. While each challenge may seem daunting and a smart city does not have an all-encompassing solution, our traditional path for serving residents and tourists is no longer viable. However, coupling city assets and infrastructure with innovative technologies will lead to a brighter future and establish our transformation into Smart Vegas. Increased internet connectivity and new technologies have immensely impacted how societies interact and govern themselves. Given the digital world’s relentless pace towards evolution and improvement, Smart Vegas technologies will increasingly expand to better assist city managers as they navigate and adapt to future challenges.

Essential Smart Vegas Actions To maximize new technologies

and capabilities, it is imperative to integrate the following mindsets when adapting Smart Vegas projects: — — Regard Smart Vegas as a “system of systems” that works collectively and is addressed holistically. — — Integrate infrastructure and processes as a single, cohesive solution. — — Focus on environmental and economic sustainability. — — Promote new digital technologies that efficiently maximize existing infrastructure and services. — — Champion public involvement and benefits of citizen-focused service delivery. — — Leverage enhanced data analytics to identify root causes and update citizens in real time.