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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Transportation Demand Management programming The reality is, especially in a place like Salt Lake, most people drive. Coordinating Parking/Developing a shared parking scenario One of the big problems with capitalism is every property does its own thing. Promoting biking, walking, and other sustainable modes is another element of TDM.

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Regional and multi-state inter city bus transportation. Thanksgiving is a time of big travel.

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One overlooked segment in regional transportation planning is inter-city bus service/travel. Professor Joseph Schweiterman of DePaul University is rare in that he tracks this form of transportation and he wrote about it for MSNBC News (" Thanksgiving is a stressful time to travel. Why it may get worse for these passengers. ").

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Economic impact of big name concert tours: Taylor Swift in Philadelphia

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Again, I'd say a lot of hotel revenue and transportation (airline, rental cars, for out of area visitors) are captured by non local entities. Although other events also contributed to this, including the University of Pennsylvania graduation. SEPTA ridership was higher, and some food establishments had stronger business.

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Walmart to close one of its three DC stores

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And it had one of the best transportation demand management signs I've ever seen in a retail store. The site was originally approved for a mixed use development with 400+ apartments above, which would have generated more income, sales, and property tax revenues for the city.

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Comcast Awards $20,00 Grant to The WorkPlace in Vermont

The Whistle Post

The WorkPlace is a nonprofit organization that coordinates regional and state-wide workforce development programs to prepare people for careers while strengthening the workforce. The grant helps address digital literacy barriers for low-income Vermonters, age 55 and older, who are looking to expand their job skills and re-enter the workforce.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But the failures in planning extend beyond DC (" Silver Line Metro expansion a classic example of the need to have true regional transportation planning ," 2011). DC does not understand its "unique selling proposition" or "core competency" is being transit- and sustainable mobility-centric. mile distance.

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Foresight

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Everyday risk factors are different when floods, transportation crashes, landslides, toxic spills, structural collapses occur against a background of asymmetric warfare, armed insurgency, fighting or rampant terrorism. History, of course, continues to be made, both as events and as some form of human social development.