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The "Buzz" about driverless cars has lead to a major debate when it comes to public transportation and how people get around in USA cities. All the talk about rebuilding infrastructure in the US must be about a lot more than tear out and replace with the same. Local governments should look around the country and around the world and see which transportation systems their citizens would like and use on a regular basis. Rebuild a system that takes advantage of local resources and talent.
Also develop a plan to repurpose, reuse or recycled what is to be torn out to offset cost and be useful. One person's trash is another's treasure.

Relieve stress for your populace with safe, pollution free, reliable and accommodating transportation and they will pay it back 10- fold.

In my mind it would be great to see buses and/trains running on a combination of fuel cells (whose waste  by products of water and heat could also be use) and renewables (like solar and wind [ exhaust turning a turbine counts for man-made wind too] ).

Research for options should already be on the drawing board as improvements for your town or city. Call your councilman and mayor and find out what they actually plan on doing. This should not be some dark tightly held secret. Remember we are talking about options and the best ones might be a combination of 2 or 3 and not an either or decision.

Tell us about your city's innovations.

Total Eclipse 2017 ! August 21st, USA

Conference For e Commerce & Omnichannel Innovators
August 14, 2017  Boston, MA , USA
Born in 1999, eTail is where the top minds at America's most successful retailers meet and learn. With the most disruptive content and focus on technology, eTail designed to help you optimize the profits from your business.

Technology Policy Institute Aspen Forum, August 20-22, 2017, Aspen, CO, USA
Since 2010, more than 850 policymakers and thought leaders have convened at the St. Regis resort for provocative discussions and riveting keynotes on topics including U.S. competitiveness and innovation, broadband penetration, and entertainment distribution models, to name a few.  Each year’s agenda touches on timely themes and pertinent issues driving public policy and regulatory decisions and how they may affect tech, communications and content industries.
SANS Information Security training August 21-26, 2017, Chicago IL, USA
SANS is the most trusted source for information security training in the world. Find out why at SANS Chicago 2017 (August 21-26). All SANS instructors are real-world practitioners, and their experience adds unparalleled value to your training.

You got some severe symptoms that are creating problems for your business which may be your operations or product's performance and/or production. Finding a complete solution can be a difficult, but taking it step by step the following can help get to the real root cause.

Problem Solving Process

1.    Identify the Problem
    a. Most times people are only looking at symptoms
    b. Most times there are multiple contributors to a complex problems.
    c. Is this a problem that needs a solution?

2.    Gather the Data
    a. Look at histograms, pareto charts, ect.
    b. Failure severity
    c. Failure rate
    d. Productivity

3.    Analyze the Data
    a. Zero in on the root cause ( i.e. 5 whys, Cause and effects flow etc.)
    b. Look at secondary problems
    c. Know the financials ROIs and pay back time frame

4.    Generate Solutions
    a. Get inputs from everyone (brainstorming)
    b. Make sure solutions do not create a bigger problem than original problem.

5.    Select solution
    a. Compare the trade offs.
    b. Cost and time frames
    c. Schedule impact
    d. Production impact
    e. Service impact
    f. Sales impact
    g. Performance impact

6.    Plan Implementation
    a. Short term solution
    b. Long term solution
    c. Coordinated transition
   d. What is the criteria for solving the problem (i.e. reduce failure rate, reduced cost, reduced time, meets requirements, increase sales, increase market share, feature works as intended for specific environments, etc)

7.    Implement and test
    a.  Test critical part of solution on a small yet representative part of problem situation, before implementing fully
    b. Does it meet  your pre-determined success criteria

8.    Continue Improvement
    a. Strive to meet ultimate objective
    b. Part improvements
    c. Process improvements
    d. Design improvements