James Corless is the Director of Transportation for America, a coalition of over 400 organizations working to promote a new national transportation policy that’s smarter, safer, cleaner and provides more choice. Prior to Transportation for America, Mr. Corless was a senior planner for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in the San Francisco Bay Area where he [...]
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MILLER CENTER
The 2011 David R. Goode National Transportation Policy Conference caught the U.S. transportation policy debate at a crossroads in its decades–long history. Lack of progress on a transformational policy agenda combined with a sense of urgency about the need to maintain and improve the nation’s transportation infrastructure had both frustrated and energized conference participants. They agreed that another plan or more supportive rhetoric was not necessary. What is needed is tangible action. This report reflects that focus.
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Innovation NewsBriefs
Vol. 23, No. 15
As Rep. DeFazio observed, getting to know the finer details of the Senate highway bill (MAP-21, S. 1813) has taken on new significance now that a House-Senate conference negotiation on the reauthorization measure has become a reality. Understanding the Senate bill is important because the Senate measure is likely to become the basis of any final bill.
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Steven CF Anderson, Managing Director of InfrastructureUSA, recently spoke with several winners of ASHRAE, NCEES, and the National Engineers Week Foundation’s New Faces of Engineering College Recognition Program.
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J.D. Irving, Limited railway crews and machines improve a critical transportation link in northern Maine. The Aroostook line improvements, scheduled to be complete by late 2012, will enhance the cost-effective transport of goods to and from the state to national and global markets. – jdirvingcompany on YouTube
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Transortation Issues Daily
When a new Congress or member proposes an infrastructure bank (learn more from Wikipedia), like clockwork I will hear from a couple of State DOT CFOs who say in frustration: “But that’s financing, not funding.” It’s great to have more financing tools and great to accelerate projects, my friends say, but financing rarely adds the additional new funding that is needed to address our long range needs and growing infrastructure deficit. The funding and projects deficit grows due to rising vehicle fuel efficiency, increased construction costs, inflation, and more roads reaching old age and needing preservation and maintenance.
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Introduction
Project Rationale and Background
By the year 2030, 19 percent of the U.S. population, and 22 percent of its licensed drivers, will be age 65 or older (Vincent and Velcoff, 2010; Lyman, Ferguson, Braver and Williams, 2002). Contrary to initial expectations, this increase in the proportion of older drivers seems unlikely to lead to large increases in the numbers of traffic crashes and associated injuries and fatalities.
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We are replacing the 87-year old two-lane bridge with a wider, four-lane bridge with sidewalks and a bike lane. We will also build retaining walls and an enclosed storm water system for roadway runoff. The new bridge will open to traffic at 5 a.m. Monday, April 16. The bridge will completely close from 8 p.m. [...]
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From the Council on Foreign Relations:
By: Scott Thomasson
Despite the pressing infrastructure investment needs of the United States, federal infrastructure policy is paralyzed by partisan wrangling over massive infrastructure bills that fail to move through Congress. Federal policymakers should think beyond these bills alone and focus on two politically viable approaches.
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NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
Every region of the United States is potentially vulnerable to adverse water- related impacts from climate change. Some states are taking action by reducing the greenhouse gas pollution that contributes to climate change and by planning for projected climate change-related impacts. However, many states are not. Nonetheless, the effects of climate change on the nation’s water resources already are being observed. According to the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), warmer temperatures are causing changes to the water cycle that include:
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