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2012 Pocket Guide to Transportation
Monday, January 30th, 2012Six U.S. Transportation Secretaries Discuss Past and Future Challenges
Friday, January 27th, 2012Speaking to a standing-room-only audience on January 25 at the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington, six U.S. transportation secretaries reminisced about the most challenging issues they faced during their tenures and offered their views about the future prospects for the federal transportation program.
View this complete post...Guest on The Infra Blog: Carol Bowers, Interim Executive Director, American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES)
Thursday, January 26th, 2012Carol W. Bowers, a Certified Association Executive and Professional Geologist, is the interim Executive Director for the American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES). AAES is a unifying voice for member societies representing over 1,000,000 engineers in the United States. Ms. Bowers provides association management experience by partnering with the AAES Board of Directors on strategic [...]
View this complete post...Guest on The Infra Blog: Hon. Joseph P. Riley, Mayor of Charleston, South Carolina
Thursday, January 19th, 2012Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. is widely considered one of the most visionary and highly effective governmental leaders in America.Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. is widely considered one of the most visionary and highly effective governmental leaders in America. First elected Mayor in December 1975, Mayor Riley is serving an unprecedented ninth term. Under his leadership, Charleston has increased its commitment to racial harmony and progress, achieved a substantial decrease in crime, experienced a remarkable revitalization of its historic downtown business district, seen the creation and growth of Spoleto Festival U.S. A., built the beautiful Waterfront Park, developed nationally-acclaimed affordable housing, and experienced unprecedented growth in Charleston’s size and population.
View this complete post...Risks and Rewards of Public-Private Partnerships for Highways
Friday, January 6th, 2012REASON FOUNDATION
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) for infrastructure are contracts between public and private entities for the provision of facilities in areas such as power, water, transportation, education and health. Well-written PPP agreements specify the allocation of risk, which should create incentives for the private provider to deliver more efficiently and in a timelier manner than would be the case if the project were undertaken by a state-controlled entity.
The Tacoma Narrows Fallacy
Thursday, December 29th, 2011Teach your teacher: the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows bridge WASN’T resonance.
And I defer all arguments to the elocution of Profs. Billah and Scanlon: http://www.ketchum.org/billah/Billah-Scanlan.pdf
4 major mistakes to avoid to erect a network infrastructure
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011As you’re a human being, you may make certain mistakes while you’re building up a network. It is not possible to detect every problem in advance. It is often found that people tend to make certain basic mistakes which can take toll on their financial life. Thus, you must try to avoid such mistakes so [...]
View this complete post...Guest on The Infra Blog: Scott Huler, Author, “On the Grid”
Monday, December 12th, 2011Scott Huler was born in 1959 in Cleveland and raised in that city’s eastern suburbs. He graduated from Washington University in 1981; he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa because of the breadth of his studies, and that breadth has been a signature of his writing work. He has written on everything from [...]
View this complete post...Talking Infrastructure with Engineers at ASCE’s 141st Annual Civil Engineering Conference
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011This is the third in a series of posts.
Steven CF Anderson, Managing Director of InfrastructureUSA speaks with several engineers attending the American Society of Civil Engineers 141st Annual Civil Engineering Conference held last month in Memphis, Tennessee:
Talking Infrastructure with Engineers at ASCE’s 141st Annual Civil Engineering Conference
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011This is the second in a series of posts
Steven CF Anderson, Managing Director of InfrastructureUSA speaks with several engineers attending the American Society of Civil Engineers 141st Annual Civil Engineering Conference held last month in Memphis, Tennessee:
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