Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

It's great that transit agencies are taking this step to link African-American and transportation history. Davis, authored a book, Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities. Transportation Equity Day versus Transit Equity Day. Transportation Equity Day versus Transit Equity Day.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 8, 2025

And "transit city" as an urban form encompasses sustainable modes of transportation--walking, biking, and transit--based on the concepts expressed in " Transportation and Urban Form: Stages in the Spatial Evolution of the American Metropoli s " by Peter Muller.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

of the population lived in an urban area in 2019, which is increasing all the time. 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. In England alone, 82.9%

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The City Fix

MARCH 13, 2024

NUMO, the New Urban Mobility alliance, began tracking this phenomenon in 2019 with the New Mobility Atlas. Between 2019 and. Since the mid-2010s, cities around the globe have witnessed the explosion of free-floating electric bikes, mopeds and scooters on their streets.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 3, 2023

And like in the 2019 and earlier posts, inadequate snow removal in commercial districts remains a program. By contrast the nonprofit GreenBike program, based around hubs or stations, doesn't have the same problem. This is in the most successful neighborhood commercial district in Salt Lake City. Bike lanes.

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Human Transit

JANUARY 27, 2022

My friend Professor Juan Carlos Muñoz Abogabir is Chile’s new Minister of Transport. He is a Bus Rapid Transit expert and an eloquent advocate for sustainable and just transport planning, and is also one of the nicest people I know. Fast forward to 2019. And it has the perfect transport leader for the moment.

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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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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

MAY 22, 2023

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Then and now, jitneys (like ride hailing) are often seen as a substitute and competitor to public transit.

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The Lowe Down

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

. <paramname=’animate_transition’ value=’yes’ /> This graph shows the differences in industry growth and employment between July 2019 and July 2020. There is, however, one spectacular outlier: transportation and warehousing. This increased to 9.35% in January 2021.

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First State Insights

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

She was awarded the 2015 Delaware Business Times Best 40 under 40 award for being one of the region’s “best & brightest young professionals” and nominated as a top 5 finalist for the 2019 “Distinguished Woman in Logistics” award.

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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

MAY 13, 2024

Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " Route 7 BRT proposal communicates the reality that the DC area doesn't adequately conduct transportation planning at the metropolitan-scale ," 2016 -- " Reviving DC area bus service: and a counterpoint to the recent Washington City Paper article ," 2019 From the article: With additional (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 6, 2025

Based on a slew of previous writings, over the past few years I've codified an approach that I call "transformational projects action planning" as an element of planning at three scales: (1) for master plans; (2) functional plans (elements, such as transportation); and (3) for specific projects, aiming for innovative approaches.

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The Lowe Down

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic, by changing experiences across transportation, well-being, caregiving, health care, and jobs, has caused society-wide shifts in behavior with potentially far reaching consequences. Data on the % change in births across these 178 nations from 2019 to 2021 comes from “ Our World in Data ”.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 3, 2023

million metric tons generated in 2019 alone. Blockchain can enable more efficient and environmentally friendly recycling programs, ensuring that electronic waste is disposed of properly According to the United Nations, electronic waste has become the world’s fastest-growing domestic waste stream, with approximately 53.6

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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 2, 2022

Another element could be treating schools as "neighborhood cultural centers" too, the way I describe how neighborhood libraries should be positioned (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019).

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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

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The state is an oil producer, and has at least five oil refineries, so it is super committed to a gasoline-centric land use and transportation planning paradigm. In fact, two of the top ten car dealership groups are based here, one sold for $3.2 billion (although they have dealerships in states other than Utah).

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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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Partnership for Public Service

MAY 25, 2023

transportation security personnel and some food inspectors) were forced to work without pay for over a month. Since implementation of the Congressional Budget Act in 1977, this has happened 20 times.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

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). Create the DMV Transport Association (" The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association ") 2.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 29, 2024

To leverage this capability responsibly, the Executive Order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence (2019) and the Executive Order on Promoting the Use of Trustworthy AI in the Federal Government (2020) set the groundwork for AI governance. Notably, the US needs to maintain its competitive advantage by leveraging AI.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 4, 2023

In a joint research initiative with INFINITT, SMC piloted a cloud-native picture archiving and communication system (PACS) in its pathology department in 2019. Typically, biopsy specimens need to be transported by porters, processed and prepped by the lab technicians for microscopic examination, and finally interpreted by pathologists.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 14, 2024

The 2019 discovery of a mock aircraft carrier in Iran underscores this, proving just how useful geospatial tech can be when it comes to uncovering potential war crimes and hidden threats. Up-to-date geospatial data is fundamental here, equipping countries with the right defence tools.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In 2019, Pennsylvania State University ( Penn State ) began looking for a better way to meet the needs of its digital-native student population—specifically, a seamless way to connect students with on-campus resources. Student interest was high and Penn State captured detailed feedback from student testers who used the app every day.

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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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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). Recently, I spoke to a senior emergency planner who has worked for years in the transportation and nuclear industries. Moore-Bick, M.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 8, 2024

The report concludes: In 2019, 43% of people killed by motor vehicles were walking, using a wheelchair or riding a bike. Atlantic Imperial Washington DC Metro Baltimore Road Map, 1964, back panel. Also see the Bloomberg article " EVs Can’t Fix a Global Epidemic of ‘Car Harm,’ Study Finds." Motor vehicles kill more than 700 children a day.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JUNE 9, 2019

Included are toxic spills, transportation crashes and the effects of human error. (c) There is currently a move to extirpate the term 'natural disasters' on the grounds that disasters by definition are not natural events (UNDRR 2019, p. Necci 2019. UNDRR 2019. Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2019.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 6, 2023

I have written about how Pennsylvania with SEPTA, Massachusetts with MBTA, and Maryland with MARC (" A "Transformational Projects Action Plan" for a statewide passenger railroad program in Maryland ," 2019) could use their regional railroad commuter systems as the foundation to develop statewide railroad passenger programs.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 25, 2022

On an e-list there's been a discussion of suburban TOD and someone mentioned this journal article, " Seven American TODs: Good practices for urban design in Transit-Oriented Development projects ," Journal of Transport and Land Use , 2008.)

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Government Technology Insider

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The Department of Defense just retired the 8-inch floppy disks that were part of the nuclear missile launch process in 2019, and the IRS has plans to finally retire its outdated system for processing taxpayer data in 2030. Aside from those high priorities, every agency should consider upgrading its technology.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Creating multi-state regional transportation districts. For a time Transport for London and its predecessors produced great tourism guidebooks. I did collect a number of vintage transit tourism marketing pieces, in preparation. For example, a brochure from Chicago Transit Authority dating to 1958.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 3, 2023

Paris was a pioneer when it introduced e-scooters, or trottinettes, in 2018 as the city’s authorities sought to promote non-polluting forms of urban transport. From the article: N ormally, anything that combats the notorious traffic congestion on the streets of Paris deserves applause.

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