Policy Chats

APRIL 20, 2020

About Michael Huerta: Michael Huerta served as a former administrator for the Federal Aviation Administration between 2013 and 2018. Before being named Administrator, Mr. Huerta served as Acting Administrator of the FAA from 2011 to 2013 and FAA Deputy Administrator from 2010 to 2011.

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Policy Chats

APRIL 20, 2020

About Michael Huerta: Michael Huerta served as a former administrator for the Federal Aviation Administration between 2013 and 2018. Before being named Administrator, Mr. Huerta served as Acting Administrator of the FAA from 2011 to 2013 and FAA Deputy Administrator from 2010 to 2011.

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Policy Chats

APRIL 20, 2020

About Michael Huerta: Michael Huerta served as a former administrator for the Federal Aviation Administration between 2013 and 2018. Before being named Administrator, Mr. Huerta served as Acting Administrator of the FAA from 2011 to 2013 and FAA Deputy Administrator from 2010 to 2011.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2023

4, Will Employ 600 People ," WAMU/NPR, 2013): Georgia Avenue NW Fort Totten NE 50 New Jersey Avenue NW The store on New York Avenue never came to be. And it had one of the best transportation demand management signs I've ever seen in a retail store. They built three (" First Walmart Stores In D.C. To Open Dec.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 18, 2023

In the past, I've suggested as part of Presidential Inauguration Weekend, that transit on the Metrorail system and in DC should be free, if only as a throughput-transportation demand management measure. -- " Should transit on Inauguration Day be free? ," 2013/2016 Note that DC will be launching free surface transit later this summer (" Free ride: DC (..)

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GovLoop

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2013, at a time when few resources were available in the region for survivors of domestic violence, the tribal government began to address their needs more comprehensively. The Cherokee Nation is the largest tribe in the United States and has more than 450,000 citizens worldwide.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The City of Kenmore, Washington was the second organization to implement PBB, along with the City of Bainbridge Island , and both have been practitioners since 2013. million will go to the transportation capital fund, $4.7 million, 10 transportation projects will be funded for a total of $61.2 million on transportation and $3.5

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Budgeting Parks And Recreation Transportation Social Media 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

One of my points about master planning is that for functional areas: transportation; parks and recreation; culture; etc., But they aren't organized into an overarching association, in a manner comparable to how Germany organizes regional transport associations to coordinate the planning and delivery of transit services.

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The City Fix

JULY 13, 2023

Since 2013, WRI India’s annual flagship event, Connect Karo, has served as a platform for facilitating dialogue between policymakers, experts. Join us July 17-18 for Connect Karo 2023 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Register now and review the agenda.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 4, 2023

That's not unlike what I've suggested for the Inauguration (" Should transit on Inauguration Day be free? ," 2013/2016) and other super special events (" Washington Cherry Blossom Festival and event transit ," 2023). Transit financing My solution: Step 1: creating a regional transport association. It's probably too little too late.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Is separate from the annual appropriations process and is connected, in that primary funding source is the General Fund, but supplemented by other tax sources (special sales taxes usually), impact fees on new development, and transportation related funding. And the city and citizen-initiated projects use the same process, forms, etc.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

When I first was into the idea of reintroducing streetcars into American cities, I favored re-adopting the heritage streetcar vehicle (" A National Mall-focused heritage (replica) streetcar service to serve visitors is a way bigger idea ," 2013).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

I have many pieces on airport transportation related issues: -- " Manhattan Institute misses the point about the value of light rail transit connections to airports | Utility and the network effect: the transit network as a platform ," 2020 -- " Airport transportation demand management in flux ," 2019 -- " Transportation demand management, transit: (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

The first proposes a "transport association" based on the German VV model, where all the local transit providers commit to integrated service, and a common schedule and fare system. My friend says there is no good public transportation from the airport to the city's major hotels. Cool train branding designs though for Tri-Rail.

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Social Pinpoint

JULY 11, 2023

Since 2013, Social Pinpoint has grown spectacularly to become the platform of choice for comprehensive public engagement internationally. For more than 25 years MetroQuest has been at the leading edge of innovation and best practices for effective, inclusive public involvement for DOTs, MPOs, regional transportation agencies, and firms.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 14, 2022

It's merely proof for what I had been writing on and off for years. -- " Misunderstanding Uber, Taxi regulation and what we might call the "Overground Economy" ," 2013 -- " App based ride services and creative destruction and plain old destruction ," 2014 -- " The false promise of ride hailing as a pro-city transportation mode ," 2018 -- " What a terrible (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 28, 2023

Especially since the Utah Department of Transportation's study of Little Cottonwood proposes gondola service. From a transportation demand management and equity perspective, you shouldn't be required to have a car to be able to recreate. I am fine with it.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 19, 2023

Most of the development energy in Brookland has been west of the station and railroad tracks, on land owned and redeveloped by Catholic University (" Takoma's Brookland moment: some opposition to apartment development on the WMATA station site ," 2013).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The group organized in 2013 to try to prevent the kind of displacement that has traditionally followed many Metro stations and new transit lines across the country. The study came from the public-private Purple Line Corridor Coalition, a group composed of government officials, community activists, nonprofits, companies and academics.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It definitely is an illustration of my point that bus shelters are "marketing touchpoints" of transit systems (" Arlington County's bus shelters and a public realm framework of quality ," 2013), and if bus shelters are crappy that communicates very clearly that the community doesn't value transit.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

But transportation is the biggest issue, better connections making it easier for people to go to other nearby districts, some of which (as I wrote about in the Eastern Market piece ) are more carefully managed to be constantly "on." My sense, since they are "medical" and the people don't consume the stuff nearby, that it's less of an issue.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 4, 2022

And these days the US Secretary of Transportation is pushing this as an environmental justice measure (" Pete Buttigieg launches $1B pilot to build racial equity in America's roads ," NPR). DC should get on the bandwagon.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

on H Street NE, at least pre-covid, 40% of people throughput was by bus, via 300 bus trips, it's tough to corral automobiles, especially because most of the city, except the core is shaped by the automobility paradigm (" DC as a suburban agenda dominated city ," 2013).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

I was surprised to see that Andy Byford has stepped down as CEO of Transport for London, as it was his dream job (" Ex-NYC subways chief Andy Byford quits London gig, plans return to US ," New York Post ). Andy Byford.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

TPAPs should be implemented at multiple scales: (1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g.,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2023

Include transportation, arts and culture, and tourism planning elements. Getting the Inner Harbor right is an opportunity that will not come again in our lifetimes; it offers the chance to create an economic and perceptual transformation. Instead of a task force. Have an advisory committee with developers and key organizations.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JUNE 9, 2019

The study of disasters is a 'lateral discipline' that, to varying degrees embraces at least 42 other disciplines and professions (Alexander 2013). Included are toxic spills, transportation crashes and the effects of human error. (c) Taxonomy is the process of classifying things or concepts and is usually backed by principles.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I suppose there are a couple more I should write, on transportation access (" Revisiting: Access to Theodore Roosevelt Island, a national park in Washington, DC ," 2022), on planning for multiple agencies owning parks in particular jurisdictions (" Federal shutdown as another example of why local jurisdictions should have more robust contingency and (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2024

Level of service a s a public administration term The term Level of Service is typically thought of in transportation term is used to refer to vehicle throughput, functioning of intersections, etc. This foue-part series covers the gaps I've identified so far.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

The Walking City urban form is the "urban technology" that supports active cities (" Transportation and Urban Form: Stages in the Spatial Evolution of the American Metropolis" ," " Department stores are an "urban technology" built for walking not driving ," 2024). and Baltimore metropolitan areas ," Transport Policy , 2014.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 10, 2023

Obviously it's because most of the lines have minimal ridership.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JUNE 25, 2023

Corruption was endemic, from the bribes demanded by traffic cops to the kickbacks needed to secure government contracts. The public put far more faith in civil society than in official institutions.

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Microsoft Public Sector

DECEMBER 19, 2023

MC693865 — SharePoint Add-In retirement in Microsoft 365 >365 Days Since the release of SharePoint Add-Ins in 2013, Microsoft has evolved SharePoint extensibility using SharePoint Framework (SPFx) enabling you to write applications that can be used in Microsoft SharePoint, Viva Connections and Microsoft Teams.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JULY 20, 2023

As announced earlier, InfoPath Client 2013 will reach the end of its extended support period on July 14, 2026 ( link ), and to keep an aligned experience across Microsoft products, InfoPath Forms Service will be retired from SharePoint Online. This provides an equivalent flow to open messages protected using Office 365 Message Encryption.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 28, 2024

The US developed a mobility paradigm focused on the car, killing passenger rail and local transit in the process, and mostly treats bikes as toys, not a mode of practical transportation, but the real way to think about is in terms of a homogeneous mobility paradigm overall.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

One of the deaccessioned buildings was transferred to the US Department of Transportation for the development of a transportation research center now known as the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (" New Volpe Transportation Center opens as part of $750 million deal between MIT and feds ," Globe ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

I suggested many things over the years including: -- creating a transportation management district for the Capitol Hill area, serving Eastern Market. This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser.

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