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Today, Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs announced a new platform called ‘Flow’ that’s designed to help cities better understand where people want to go and to help them get there more efficiently. The platform is a partnership with the US Department of Transportation,  working with Smart City Challenge participants that would identify sources of congestion — and those underserved by existing transit — to “create transportation patterns from aggregated, anonymized data containing millions of trips from Google’s Urban Mobility program,” among others. “Essentially the way this will work is we will build a platform to ingest different forms of data to help users…

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