Innovation Labs

Partnership President & CEO Kathy Wylde issued an Op-ed today in Empire Report along with louisa chafee, Director of New York City Independent Budget Office and Andrew Rein, President of Citizens Budget Commission, supporting the Governor’s decision to move forward with congestion pricing. Not only will congestion pricing ease traffic, but it will boost business, benefit consumers across the city and suburbs, and provide critical funding for a safer, more reliable transit system. A win for everyone! Read the Op-ed: https://lnkd.in/e3jvVa8d #CongestionPricing #NewYorkCity #Transit #Sustainability

?? Runwise, a New York based company using wireless controls to help buildings operate their heating and water systems more efficiently, is further expanding its partnership with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to cut carbon emissions and save money. Results to date: ? Transit Tech Lab Pilot: Runwise installed 170 sensors across 7 MTA buildings, resulting in an average 40% reduction in fuel usage and $140,000 in fuel savings when compared to the prior year’s weather-adjusted heating levels. ? Post Pilot: In October 2023, the MTA scaled Runwise’s technology to 4 additional buildings. By reducing excess fuel consumption in these 11 MTA buildings, Runwise: ?? Is projected to save the MTA $400k annually in fuel costs. ?? Eliminated 1,185 metric tons of CO2 emissions —the equivalent to taking 282 cars off the road ? Now, Runwise will further expand its wireless control system to ~38 additional buildings and anticipates delivering $1.4M in annual savings for the MTA. Congratulations to Runwise and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for this #climatesuccess! ? #transittechlab #alumniachievements #climatetech

Thank you to NYC Department of Buildings (DOB) and the 20 #BuildingsTechLab semi-finalists who spent the past few days diving deep into how data integration and process management tools can help streamline construction permitting, compliance, inspection, and enforcement initiatives. The energy in the room was infectious - DOB decision makers asked thorough questions about how new tech could improve daily operations, and the 20 semi-finalists emphatically responded. ?? Stay tuned to find out who DOB selects to move forward with a proof of concept ?? ????

New name alert! ?? The Transit Tech Lab page has been renamed "Innovation Labs" so you can find news and updates from all three of our public sector lab programs in one place. Our Innovation Labs offer entrepreneurs worldwide an expedited path to testing their technologies with some of the largest, most complex public sector agencies in the New York region: ??Transit Tech Lab: Established in 2018 with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and expanded in 2019 to include NJ TRANSIT, New York City Department of Transportation, and The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey. ?? Environmental Tech Lab: Launched in 2023 with NYC Department of Environmental Protection (NYC DEP). ?? Buildings Tech Lab: Our newest program, launched in 2024 in partnership with NYC Department of Buildings. Stay tuned to see how we're helping transform the delivery of essential services that New Yorkers benefit from every day. #InnovationLabs #TransitTechLab #EnviroTechLab #BuildingsTechLab #TechInThePublicInterest ???????

Partnership President & CEO Kathy Wylde was proud to present the inaugural Granville T. Woods Award to NaviLens CEO Javier Pita at the Gala for Friends of the New York Transit Museum. ?? An alum of the 2020 Transit Tech Lab, Navilens has since expanded their partnership with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to transform the transit experience for riders who are visually impaired and have limited English proficiency, setting a powerful example of how innovation can drive accessibility. #Accessibility #NYC #TechInThePublicInterest

Eighteen start-ups complete the Transit Tech Lab programme, testing how their solutions could tackle New York's resilience, customer experience, and kerb challenges. ?? https://lnkd.in/d_h7V7Td New York City Department of Transportation Transit Tech Lab Partnership for New York City #transit #innovation

"New technologies are helping local governments better understand bridge conditions, determine locations for street-side electric vehicle charging and even use robots for small maintenance jobs... The development of proof-of-concept applications could be imagined as more of the beginning of new partnerships among tech firms and the various transit operators in the New York City metro." Read more about the 2024 Proof of Concept Results from Government Technology here: https://lnkd.in/eymmzhr2

?? The 2024 Proof of Concept Results are in ?? Check out the 2024 Final Report which outlines how 18 companies worked in partnership with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, NJ TRANSIT, New York City Department of Transportation, and The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey to demonstrate how new technologies can solve pressing #resilience, #customerexperience, and #curbactivity challenges: https://lnkd.in/eiZZPZ4y

Great things can happen when the public sector and innovative entrepreneurs get together to tackle important problems. That’s why I’m?incredibly excited to share?the Partnership Fund's latest public-private initiative: the Buildings Tech Lab in partnership with the NYC Department of Buildings (DOB)! ? After working with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to launch the Transit Tech Lab in 2018 and the NYC Department of Environmental Protection (NYC DEP) in 2023 to create the Environmental Tech Lab, we’ve kicked off our third public-sector innovation lab to identify innovative solutions from the global tech sector to address complex DOB priorities as it works to ensure the overall safety, compliance, and quality of the city's built environment — made up of over one million buildings. Learn how in our latest blog. ---? Applications for the Buildings Tech Lab are open now through September 20 and there is an information?session on August 15th. If you know an emerging company with a compelling solution to one of this year’s challenge areas?of Process Management and Data Utilization, please comment below, share, or encourage them to apply directly at buildingstechlab.nyc