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Road to Recovery: Transforming America’s Transportation

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

THE LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE ON TRANSPORTATION SOLVENCY

The Leadership Initiative for Transportation Solvency is dedicated to developing a nonpartisan solution to fund a better transportation system in the United States. Former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley, former Pennsylvania Governor and Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, and former U.S. Comptroller General and current President of the Comeback America Initiative David Walker led an intensive analysis to find politically realistic measures to fund and fix the transportation program.

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Posted in Aging Infrastructure, Bipartisan, Funding, Highway, Infra Views, National, Policy, Public Transportation, Recovery, Roads, Transit

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Measuring Transportation Investments: The Road to Results

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

PEW CENTER ON THE STATES & ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
In fiscal year 2010, states spent an estimated $131 billion in taxpayer dollars on transportation. Yet many policy makers cannot answer critical questions about what results this investment is generating…he goal of this assessment of the 50 states and Washington, DC, is to identify which are doing the best in terms of having essential tools in place to make cost-effective transportation funding and policy choices—and to help lawmakers understand how to use these tools to do a better job with limited dollars.

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Posted in Equity, Funding, Infra Views, National, Policy, Transit

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State Transportation Reform: Cut to Invest in Transportation to Deliver the Next Economy

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

BROOKINGS-ROCKEFELLER PROJECT ON STATE AND METROPOLITAN INNOVATION
A 21st century state transportation strategy that strengthens metropolitan America and is tightly linked to the vital elements of the next economy is critical for our nation to emerge from the rubble of the recession. Yet state transportation systems face two overarching challenges: they are both broke and broken.

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DRIVEN APART: How Sprawl Is Lengthening Our Commutes and Why Misleading Mobility Measures Are Making Things Worse

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

CEOs for Cities
The secret to reducing the amount of time Americans spend in peak hour traffic has more to do with how we build our cities than how we build our roads. While peak hour travel is a perennial headache for many Americans — peak hour travel times average 200 hours a year in large metropolitan areas — some cities have managed to achieve shorter travel times and actually reduce the peak hour travel times. The key is that some metropolitan areas have land use patterns and transportation systems that enable their residents to take shorter trips and minimize the burden of peak hour travel.

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Posted in Congestion, Highway, Infra Views, National, Policy, Roads, Transit, Urban Planning

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Transportation Adaptation to Global Climate Change

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER
Rising sea levels, greater weather variability, and more extreme weather events like hurricanes, permafrost thawing, and melting Arctic sea ice are just some of the important changes that will impact transportation networks and infrastructure. Coastal areas are particularly vulnerable. A large portion of the nation’s transportation infrastructure is in coastal zones: nearly half of the U.S. population lives within fifty miles of the coast, and many roads, rail lines, and airports were built at or near water’s edge to take advantage of available right-of-way and land. Increasingly intense storm activity and surges, exacerbated by rising sea levels, are putting an ever-increasing range of this coastal infrastructure at risk…

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Posted in Bipartisan, Buses, Climate Change, Competitiveness, Green, High Speed Rail, Highway, Infra Views, National, Policy, Pollution, Public Transportation, Rail, Smart Growth, Sustainability, Transit, Urban Planning

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