Reprogramming the City

APRIL 1, 2023

The syngas can be further processed into electricity, heat, or transportation fuels (US Department of Energy, 2020). million gallons of low-carbon transportation fuels (Fulcrum BioEnergy, 2021). One example of a gasification facility is the Fulcrum BioEnergy’s Sierra BioFuels Plant in Nevada, USA.

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Social Pinpoint

JANUARY 28, 2017

Yuma County, Arizona recently used Social Pinpoint to gather input from the community regarding their 2018-2041 Regional Transport Plan (RTP). The plan lists the transportation needs and improvements that are planned or will potentially arise over the next 25 years.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Data, and the ability to process it rapidly and seamlessly, is crucial to the connected, intelligent networks that provide the lifeblood to today’s cities and the transport systems that link a nation’s cities together. Mobility and connected transit: Monitoring public transport can improve safety and hygiene.

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FedHeads

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

This week on FedHeads, Robert and Francis welcome Ariel Gold, Data Program Manager of the Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office at the Department of Transportation. Ariel Gold 2018 Sammies Finalist Profile: [link] About the Service to America Medals: [link]. They don't have t-shirts yet, but are open to ideas.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Most sports teams don't have transportation demand management requirements (" Framework of characteristics that support successful community development in association with the development of professional sports facilities "). That's the case for the DC area teams.

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Partnership for Public Service

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As excepted employees—those who perform jobs that affect our national health, safety, emergency response and other critical functions—air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration officers would have to work without pay if the government shuts down.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

I did have a section on biking for transportation in the 2016 post, " Back to School #3: College." In my biking-related comments on the SLC Transportation Plan, I suggested that University of Utah put its campus bike shop at the TRAX University light rail station, to make it more "multi-modal".) Bicycle Friendly University.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Also see: -- " Design forward trains and streetcars: Haga-Utsunomiya Light Rail and Brightline (plus bonus) ," 2023 -- " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit ," 2018 The Irizar ie tram is a worthy option as a way to reposition the image of bus transit.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The Bothell - Kenmore Reporter recently published an article written by Catherine Krummey with a focus on City of Kenmore budget development ( City of Kenmore officials find the fun in 2017-2018 budget ). million will go to the transportation capital fund, $4.7 million, 10 transportation projects will be funded for a total of $61.2

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

Valley Transit (San Jose) poster promoting transit use and transportation demand management.

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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. Mr. Huerta currently serves as a transportation industry consultant, including acting as a Senior Advisor to Macquarie Capital.

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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. Mr. Huerta currently serves as a transportation industry consultant, including acting as a Senior Advisor to Macquarie Capital.

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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. Mr. Huerta currently serves as a transportation industry consultant, including acting as a Senior Advisor to Macquarie Capital.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 13, 2024

DC has a long way to go for that, which is why I suggest a German style "transport association" be created to integrate the services. -- " WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

From the Smart Transportation Guidebook. neighborhood ," 2019, (" Blaming Walmart for Skyland's failure is misdirected ," 2016," For the first time, Skyland Town Center's revitalization might have a chance: creating a community focused retail destination ," 2018). I said, "no. It will happen in the high value areas first etc."

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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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Partnership for Public Service

MAY 25, 2023

transportation security personnel and some food inspectors) were forced to work without pay for over a month. When Congress does not pass full-year funding by the start of a new fiscal year on Oct.1— 1— or at least pass short-term funding to tide agencies over while full-year funding is negotiated—a shutdown occurs.

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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). It's next to a freeway.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

For more than a decade I suggested that DC create a Transportation Commission, comparable to the Zoning Commission, to provide greater opportunities for oversight and involvement, both for elected and appointed officials, and citizen members. Since I got involved in urban revitalization I've argued that DC had five competitive advantages: 1.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 25, 2023

9, the artist, whose home base is Brooklyn, will be giving people something to think about during their own public transportation journey, or purgatory as the case may be. The New York Times has an article on a bus shelter public art project, " Watching for the Bus Stop Gallery." From the article: Starting Aug.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 14, 2022

. -- " 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 idea: deregulating taxi fares in DC for mobile-based hails (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 4, 2023

Now a goodly amount of that is encapsulated in " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit " (2018), but old pieces like " Making Transit Sexy " (2005), make the point too, less sophisticatedly. Transit financing My solution: Step 1: creating a regional transport association. And absolutely that it is a key issue.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2023

For another, as I've written, the primary spending categories are lodging , transportation , and food and drink (hospitality). Most hotels are owned by non-local interest, same with transportation like airlines. Net revenue would be $7,700 per seat, still quite high.) Economic impact study of Pittsburgh professional sports teams.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 22, 2023

Also see: -- " Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Platform Framework ," 2018 There's been a lot of reporting of late on communities reducing parking requirements, and a new book by Henry Grabar (" Book Review: 'Paved Paradise,' by Henry Grabar ," New York Times). But Donald Shoup's High Cost of Free Parking was published in 2005.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 20, 2023

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. The first element is an integrated public transportation system.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Bird launched in Santa Monica, a tourist-beach town, and the scooter users were recreational. -- " What the e-scooter industry hasn't figured out about Santa Monica: It's recreation not transportation ," 2018 Note, ride hailing is a similar issue.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 7, 2023

Reddit photo from r/nycrail. For example, at night, the display of a digital bus system map could be limited to the night time bus route network. This is another example of the positive opportunities offered by digital display screens for transit system maps.

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Barrett & Greene

AUGUST 2, 2023

That study found that poor sleep quality was particularly common in a number of professions that are part of the public sector, including healthcare, protective services, and transportation. in 2010 to 35.6%

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

Third, fwiw, the Metrorail system and Prince George's County have failed similarly in terms of planning for high frequency transit service to the National Harbor development (" Backwardness of transportation and land use planning: National Harbor, Prince George's County, Maryland | Why isn't high capacity transit access required from the outset? ").

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Inadequacies in school transportation planning ," 2022 Note that such programs should also address night time activities (" Night-time safety: rethinking lighting in the context of a walking community ," 2014). Students, parents, and teachers participating in a clean up of the school grounds, Wasatch Elementary School, Salt Lake.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

I like the idea of ten year terms to be able to "force" transportation demand management agreements on teams (" Framework of characteristics that support successful community development in association with the development of professional sports facilities "). Flickr photo. The Washington Post reports (" D.C.

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

And it turns out I had written something similar in 2007!!!!!! -- " It's time to create the "Port Authority" of Montgomery and Prince George's Counties " That was true in 2014 and 2007, and is still true in 2022.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Casey Anderson, chair of the Montgomery County Planning Board, in Forest Grove Park in Silver Spring in 2018. Planners are responsible not just for making neighborhoods great, but for dealing with a wide range of other planning responsibilities--economic development and growth, transportation, equity, etc.--while

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