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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

At the time, my focus was trying to create a shared parking scenario, and to invest in sustainable mobility. Transportation Demand Management programming The reality is, especially in a place like Salt Lake, most people drive.

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The COG is the union of local governments and designated by the USDOT as the region's metropolitan planning organization for regional transportation planning and coordination. And a more expanded concept of the "sustainable mobility dates to 2018 (" Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Framework ").

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Winter snow clearance in the Walking City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I used to write yearly about this, focusing on how the sustainable mobility centric city needs snow removal policies that co-equally privilege walking, biking and transit users, not just the motor vehicle parts of roads.

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Electric bicycles as a quantum opportunity for transportational cycling: can e bikes be conquest sales versus cars?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The US has a very homogeneous approach to land use and transportation planning. No city has the kind of bicycling for transportation penetration common in the Netherlands or Denmark. Can e-bikes become sustainable mobility conquests versus the car? No temperate city is dominated by mopeds. Tax credits for electric bikes.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One of my points about master planning is that for functional areas: transportation; parks and recreation; culture; etc., In terms of overall waste reduction planning, it's essential to include all properties in a jurisdiction within planning (" More on zero waste practice (and DC) ," 2015).

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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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Denver and Rio Grande Rail Trail in Davis County, Utah: a great foundation, full of (missed) opportunity

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

That's because with the way we've designed the transportation system for automobility, you can get away with minimal pre-planning, unless you're going to an out of the way place. MPOs and "active transportation." And yes, they have an Active Transportation Committee focused on developing sustainable mobility options.