American City & Country

AUGUST 23, 2024

In response to these consequences, the ASCE released the Sustainable Infrastructure Standard, ASCE 73-23, a tool that provides guidance for infrastructure owners to develop and implement sustainable solutions throughout a project’s entire life cycle. Nonetheless, America’s communities are at a crossroads.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

With the Open Mobility Foundation, Seattle’s Department of Transportation is creating a way to digitally define loading zones and measure their effectiveness through a Curb Data Specification (CDS). The drivers may end up blocking a lane, increasing congestion and air pollution, and they may be delayed as well.

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Transportation Regulations Laws Local Government 59

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 6, 2024

The study offers policymakers, operators and transport planners, powerful insights into what motivates a person’s transport decisions within and between cities. While sustainability factors may not drive how people travel – only an important factor to 14% – the research does show that respondents back green legislative interventions.

Public Transportation 52

Public Transportation Transportation Press Release Sustainability 52

NLC (National League of Cities)

MAY 16, 2023

Federal funding is available for municipal leaders looking to reduce carbon emissions in public transportation fleets. The transportation sector is the largest emitter of carbon in the U.S.

Public Transportation 49

Public Transportation Transportation Laws Sustainability 49

AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Adopting powerful technologies like generative AI must align with principles contained in the GC’s Responsible use of AI of lawful, ethical data usage and explainable outcomes to impacted individuals. Snow Family transportable storage facilitates two-way, large-scale dataset migrations between environments. The AWS Cloud is 3.6

Government 189

Government Public Sector Security Budgeting 189

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

This was the only working repair stand and air pump on the stretch of the trail I rode, probably because it was both newer and sponsored by a law firm. 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.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JANUARY 17, 2023

Reducing Market Barriers to Sustainable Farm/Food Businesses: A Business/Consumer Perspective . Many of the suggestions put forth at the conference related to creating sustainable economic development in food systems by improving connections and access, both from the business and the consumer side.

Economic Development 76

Economic Development Community Development Laws Development 76

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.

Public Transportation 52

Public Transportation Outreach Transportation Sustainability 52

The City Fix

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In a groundbreaking move for national road safety policy, Mexico has elevated to their constitution a universal right to safe mobility. On October 14, the country’s Chamber of Deputies unanimously voted in favor of adding an amendment to Mexico’s constitution: Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of solar and wind power. Taken together, such stories.

Laws 52

Laws Public Transportation Transportation Development 52

AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In January 2022, the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) unveiled the National Roadway Safety Strategy , and Congress passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that includes a new Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant program. A follow-up workshop at Bellevue City Hall built upon progress from the roundtable.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

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., Arguably this could be an element of the transportation post. This entry became very long, so I broke it up.

Transportation 52

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 20, 2023

High-Level Recommendations and Reasoning Drive sustained policy change through an interagency committee. Better data is needed, for example, on all the different types of MHC configurations; on the costs of MH vs. both site-built and modular construction – all on an apples-to-apples basis, including land, transportation costs, etc.

Housing 97

Housing Legislation Development Government 97

AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

Managing security and compliance requirements, especially as laws and reporting mandates evolve, can be complex, tedious, and expensive. Cloud-based technologies can also help agencies in their sustainability-related objectives. Efforts should be integrated across on-premises and cloud environments.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Recently, I spoke to a senior emergency planner who has worked for years in the transportation and nuclear industries. Every country needs a law that specifies the nature of the civil protection system and the basic details of how it works. It is a role that is seldom sustained enough to make a thorough-going difference.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2024

For example, in a blog entry in 2016, I suggested that such information be provided at the Council District scale and that ward-focused committees address traffic safety and sustainable mobility in concerted ways.

Transportation 52

Transportation Laws Sustainability Budgeting 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

Inadequacies in school transportation planning ," 2022 -- School Walk and Bike Routes: A Guide for Planning and Improving Walk and Bike to School Options for Students -- Safe Routes to School program , Washington State -- City of Tacoma SRTS program , including SRTS Action Plan -- Starkville in Motion A failed job interview with DDOT.

Transportation 40

Transportation Campaign Public Health Laws 40

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

Doubling down on place values " (2022) The Economics of Uniqueness: Investing in Historic City Cores and Cultural Heritage Assets for Sustainable Development DC (" Bowser, business leaders pitch $400M plan to fix D.C.’s million for a “dedicated team and marketing efforts to facilitate the transformation of Downtown D.C.

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The City Fix

MARCH 18, 2025

Transforming Transportation 2025 is in the books. After a year of geopolitical turmoil and escalating climate impacts, the transport sector is seeing rapid change on multiple fronts. Across two days of events, leaders in government, business, academia and civil society.

Transportation 80

Transportation Government Laws Communications 80

American City & Country

OCTOBER 30, 2024

There is a myriad of factors that must be contemplated prior to any consolidation efforts: Size matters Size is perhaps the most salient feature with regards to sustained public safety department model success. Randall Bauer has more than 17 years working in law enforcement, having spent time in both South Carolina and Pennsylvania.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Transit/transportation as a set of networks operating at different scales : this extends the argument laid out in the 2006 Arlington County Master Transportation Plan, where they defined their primary and secondary transit networks. ( This entry became very long, so I broke it up. From the c. I see they're updating their plan.)

Transportation 52

Transportation Sustainability Parks And Recreation Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 1, 2025

Visit a historic railroad station, bus terminal and/or a transportation museum. Kendall Green at Gallaudet was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. plus the various Re:stores run by local affiliates of Habitat for Humanity. There are many fabulous extant railroad stations, many no longer in use, in so many cities.2013

Housing 45

Housing Advocacy Transportation Legislation 45

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The goal was to test the theory that if people are given quality transportation choices, they will use them. It certainly seems like a fair trade off to make the corridor safer and more convenient for alternative modes of transportation which was the purpose of the project. The project, called Move Culver City , was a 1.3 Two minutes.

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Transportation Sustainability Elected Officials Implementation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2025

The article goes on to discuss how the regulatory process for creating rules works, and that Trump's order is counter to administrative law. The Trump Administration is deemphasizing transit funding and multi-mobility transportation policies (" States push to shift road funds to transit and bike projects as Trump threatens cuts ," AP).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2025

We are deeply committed to exploring sustainable ways to continue serving our community and advancing our mission. transportation (" Sec. Duffy Moves to Rescind Billions for Woke Transportation on Feb. This decision was not made lightly. are attacks on civil society.

Government 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Photo: Johnny Hanson/Houston Chronicle The battles over transportation access were central to the Civil Rights movement. Transit Equity Day , set by the American Public Transportation Association as February 4th , during African American/Black History Month, is one way to acknowledge this. Also see Labor Network for Sustainability.

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