Courtesy of Hitachi Zosen Corp., this animation shows how the world’s largest tunneling machine works. – wsdot on YouTube
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Archive for the ‘Transit’ Category
Seattle, WA: SR 99 Tunneling Machine Animation
Friday, May 17th, 2013Analyzing the Effects of Transit Network Change: A Case Study of Tallahassee, Florida
Thursday, May 16th, 2013MINETA TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE
On July 11, 2011, StarMetro, the local public transit agency in Tallahassee, Florida, restructured its entire bus network from a downtown-focused radial system to a decentralized, grid-like system that local officials and agency leaders believed would better serve the dispersed local pattern of population and employment.
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Green Electricity and Transportation (GET) Smart
Friday, May 10th, 2013POLICY MATTERS OHIO
Ohioans spend a large amount of money on energy. In 2010, we spent $45 billion, nearly 10 percent of our state’s gross domestic product. Nearly half of those energy dollars (or more than $20 billion) was spent to fuel cars, trucks, and buses, and nearly all of which left the state or country in order to import oil. Ohio can reduce its dependence on imported oil by promoting electric vehicles (EVs) and buses, as well as passenger and freight rail.
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Growing Impact of Social Media in Transportation Public Engagement
Thursday, May 9th, 2013Transportation Issues Daily
Social media (or, as we prefer it, mobile media*) is changing the landscape of how organizations engage the public. Yet public agencies lag behind the private sector when it comes to using mobile media to gather information from and distribute information to customers and the public.
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Atlanta, GA: Beltline Bridge Lift Time Lapse
Monday, May 6th, 2013During the Atlanta Beltline Eastside Trail construction, crews had to hoist up the bridge over Ponce de Leon near Ponce City Market. Atlanta Beltline Bridge Lift Time Lapse at Ponce City Market from Gnoggin Studios on Vimeo.
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Minnesota DOT: How Potholes are Formed
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013Guest on The Infra Blog: Eben Weiss, BikeSnob NYC Blog
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013Eben Weiss (a.k.a. BikeSnobNYC) is the blogger behind bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com, a massively popular cycling blog (started in 2007). Topics include:
New World of Cycling
Bike Snob Abroad: Ripple Affect
Cycling Infrastructure in the US
Shocked into Engagement
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