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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

By the 1990s, the emergence of civil protection from the matrix of civil defence (Alexander 2002) had broadened the scope to the extent that there was a need for a more functional set of categories. Included are toxic spills, transportation crashes and the effects of human error. (c) Disaster Prevention and Management 11(3): 209-213.

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Brightline West should also be used to transform public transit service in Las Vegas

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

so it's a lucrative market for transportation services, especially if they are convenient and cost effective. RTC also runs a bikeshare program, manages certain intelligent transportation systems functions, and a number of game day sports related express bus services. And most of the hotels have airport transportation shuttles.

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Alteia and the World Bank assess and enhance road infrastructure data quality at scale using AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Rural roads are critical for connectivity, transportation, and development. Photo credit: World Bank Transport Team 2) Road infrastructures connect households to higher quality opportunities for employment, healthcare and education. A road in rural Peru.

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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Planners are tasked with considering the future and dealing with it, not trying to prevent change necessarily, but instead working to manage it and mitigate and limit negative effects, in ways that are good for the city in general and neighborhoods specifically, simultaneously. At the same time, there is a different cleavage.

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Interpreting Covid-19 as a Disaster

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Front-line' workers include those who serve in hospitals, work in care homes, run public transport and deliver essential items. The failure of emergency planning is perhaps the greatest error made in the management of the Covid-19 disaster. Covid-19 has taught the world an enormously important lesson about how to manage a crisis.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A couple years later I helped Brookland create one, and later served as a program manager in Brookland. This entry became very long, so I broke it up. These days there are way too many "Main Street programs" in DC, but that's an argument for another day.

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In fact, light rail here in Salt Lake was spurred by the 2002 Olympics, it's a small system and doesn't go to all the places it should, but it's complemented by a developing commuter rail program, a dinky streetcar line on the south side of Salt Lake and South Salt Lake, and a decent enough bus system.