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Incorporating Resilience into Transportation Planning and Assessment

New @RANDCorporation #Ebook offers tool for state DOTs & MPOs to plan for resilience

RAND CORPORATION TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD

Summary

This report provides an approach for incorporating resilience into transportation planning and assessment for state departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations. We build on the Federal Highway Administration’s Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Framework (VAF) to better incorporate principles of resilience into…

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Understanding How Women Travel

Understanding How Women Travel

LOS ANGELES METRO

Executive Summary Why study women’s travel?

Mobility – or one’s ability to get around – shapes the opportunities we can reach, and the way we interact in and with our communities. Although women comprise over half of all transit ridership in Los Angeles County, their mobility needs, concerns, and preferences have not been critically accounted for in the way our transportation…

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Smart city innovations are the future and should be monitored

Smart city innovations are the future and should be monitored

Changes are occurring at warp speed, and it’s extremely difficult for busy individuals to stay abreast of what is happening in every area of business. But, it is important to know about government changes because lifestyles and business practices are being impacted in significant ways.

Companies that sell to government must remain conversant and understand evolving changes. They should work hard…

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Hundreds of campus projects launching throughout the U.S.

Hundreds of campus projects launching throughout the U.S.

Student enrollment in colleges and universities throughout the U.S. continues to grow. Data tells us that no matter what the economy does, young men and women realize the importance of getting a degree. Statistics from the Institute of Education Services point to the fact that even during the Great Recession from 2007-2009, student enrollments maintained a level constant as young men and women…

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Caution Ahead: 5 Years Later – Assessing Progress and Challenges for New York City’s Aging Infrastructure

Updated report from @nycfuture shows that NYC's infra vulnerabilities have increased over the last 5 years

CENTER FOR AN URBAN FUTURE

In the last six weeks alone, flash flooding shut down streets in Park Slope and Williamsburg,a software glitch brought subway trains to a halt during rush hour, a massive power outage left tens of thousands of city residents in the dark, and a Long Island City subway station was deluged with so much water that it knocked a straphanger off his feet. Though hardly at the…

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Public procurement takes a turn worthy of note

Public procurement takes a turn worthy of note

Public procurement takes a turn worthy of note By Mary Scott Nabers | 8.23.2019

Some seasoned government contracting firms have spent decades studying ‘best practices’ associated with winning new business. They know exactly what it takes, and because of that, they incur less risk when pursuing projects. These firms also win lots of government business.

Other firms, however, are not quite as…

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24th Annual Highway Report

24th Annual Highway Report from @reason now out: comparing performance & condition of state highways around the nation

REASON FOUNDATION

Executive Summary

Reason Foundation’s Annual Highway Report has tracked the performance of the 50 state-owned highway systems from 1984 to 2016. The 24th Annual Highway Reportranks the performance of state highway systems in 2016, with congestion and bridge condition data from 2017. Each state’s overall rating is determined by rankings in 13 categories, including highway…

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Infrastructure upgrades and expansions offer new contracting opportunities worth billions

Infrastructure upgrades and expansions offer new contracting opportunities worth billions

Transportation infrastructure will stimulate the U.S. economy significantly over the next few years. Hundreds of large projects have been announced; so many in fact, it should be possible for almost every type of contracting firm to find attractive opportunities.

Regional transit leaders in Ann Arbor, Michigan, recently released a $10 billion transit plan. Upcoming opportunities include several…

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Civic outreach plans … here’s why they are necessary

Civic outreach plans … here’s why they are necessary

Civic outreach plans are critical components of success for large public projects. In spite of data that proves it, public officials often neglect to develop or implement these types of plans. And, experienced contractors often fail to insist on them.

Why is that? Could it be because there has been too little attention on why large projects sometimes languish or fail? Almost every project that…

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Place Value: How Communities Attract, Grow and Keep Jobs in the Rocky Mountain West

Bringing more #jobs to the Rocky Mountain West: why community matters more than salary. Report from @CommunityBldrs @sonoraninst

COMMUNITY BUILDERS

Executive Summary

Local leaders intuitively recognize that building a great community is essential to building a strong and resilient economy, but what underlies this linkage and how can communities strengthen it?

These are the guiding questions behind the Place Value study, which explores why people and businesses are drawn to particular communities in the Rocky Mountain West.

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Measure M: Lessons from a Successful Transportation Ballot Campaign

Measure M: Lessons from a Successful Transportation Ballot Campaign in #LosAngeles via @EnoTrans

ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION

Introduction

In November 2016 voters in Los Angeles County approved a ½ cent sales tax increase to finance transportation called Measure M. Formally titled the “Los Angeles County Traffic Improvement Plan,” Measure M was proposed by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) and on Election Day won resoundingly, with 71.15 percent of the…

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Kansas City, MO: Man Throws Birthday Party for Pothole

How a man in Kansas City threw a birthday party for a pothole in his neighborhood, and finally got repaired (video)

  Fed up with the hundreds of potholes that line Kansas City streets and a perceived lack of urgency from the city to fix them, Frank Sereno decided the best way to solve the problem was to celebrate it.

He threw a birthday party for the 3-month-old pothole on his street, complete with a slice of cake with a candle on top.

“I…

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Latest updates from @WVDOT on what's happening in West Virginia's District 1 In this week’s edition of WVDOT In Motion, we take a look at some secondary road work happening in District 1 and talk about the importance of work zone safety as construction season continues. -WVDOT on YouTube

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Dave Sandor, Co-Founder & CEO, Allinfra

How @ethereum #blockchain tech could bring infrastructure investment opps to the masses. Convo w/ Dave Sandor, Co-founder & CEO of @all_infra

Dave Sandor has been involved in capital markets and financial structuring since 2004, most recently at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong.  Dave has spent the last two years focussed on the security token space and the application of blockchain technology to traditional financial markets, fundraising and investment. Dave is Co-founder & CEO of Allinfra.

Led by a team of…

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Go Fourth and Ride: Families Celebrate Brooklyn's 4th Ave Protected Bike Lane

Celebrating Brooklyn's 4th Ave protected bike lane w/ @streetfilms

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The future is bright in Brooklyn. Children & families came out in a large bunch to ride the NYC DOT’s first installed portion of the 4th Avenue Protected bike lane, a lane many community members have been asking nearly 10 years for!

It’s hard not to get emotional seeing how if we build proper infrastructure and a bike network and people will come out. Brooklyn Spoke’s…

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Benchmarking Air Emissions Of the 100 Largest Electric Power Producers in the United States

New benchmarking report from @CeresNews shows which power producers are releasing the most emissions

Preface

The 2019 Benchmarking report is the 15th collaborative effort highlighting environmental performance and progress in the nation’s electric power sector. The Benchmarking series began in 1997 and uses publicly reported data to compare the emissions performance of the 100 largest power producers in the United States. The company rankings are based on 2017 generation and emissions data…

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Water for Energy: Addressing the Nexus between Electricity Generation and Water Resources

Water & electricity generation are inextricably linked. Report from @NCSLorg helps lawmakers address energy-water issues

NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES (NCSL)

Executive Summary

Water and electricity generation are inextricably linked—much of the nation’s power generation is dependent on water to operate while water systems require a stable supply of electricity for treatment and delivery. Since electricity generation accounts for approximately 45 percent of water withdrawals in the U.S., identifying ways…

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