Happy National Public Works Week! In honor of the workers who provide essential services in our communities, here are seven fascinating facts about public works. 1. The first electric street lamps were used in Paris...

York Region in Ontario spans more than 1,000 miles of Canadian terrain. Behind the scenes of winter storm preparations, York uses Cityworks to keep roads safe. Watch the video below to learn how Cityworks and...

Whether you’re patching potholes or rebuilding roads, maintaining pavement infrastructure is both costly and time-consuming. Get ahead of the curve by integrating your pavement analysis tool and your work management system. Cityworks recently release a...

By Robert J Taylor and Brandon Brown, City of Dublin Once you start gathering data on your assets and operations, the next logical step is to present your data in a way that supports informed...

Over the course of the last decade, municipal governments have increasingly turned to IT consolidation as a means of reducing costs while also improving service delivery. For many organizations, IT consolidation means the re-centralization of...

Most communities have critical infrastructure that requires constant maintenance and inspection. Consider bridges, for example. Stream gauge monitoring can be used to immediately evaluate whether water level flowing under a bridge could impact structural integrity....

Sometimes, automation is viewed as a cold or robotic process that eliminates human interaction. Automation should never sacrifice the quality of a program or service. At the Regional Municipality of York, each program or project...

[caption id="attachment_20235" align="alignright" width="200"] Field workers see the same information on their mobile devices whether a service request is created manually or through incoming Waze data.[/caption] In early 2018, the City of Raleigh implemented a...

We’re kicking off the week at the 2018 ICMA Annual Conference in Baltimore, where local government managers and staff have gathered to discuss strategies for building more resilient, sustainable, and safe communities—smart communities. Smart city...