On New York City’s Staten Island: New Dorp Beach Residents Starting Over From Scratch Work On The Brooklyn Battery Tunnel Continues In Rockaway, Queens, Resilient NY Residents Find Food And Clothing Beach Erosion in Ocean City, MD Assessing The Power Line Damage in Worcester, MA
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Hurricane Sandy Recovery: Assessing the Damage & Beginning To Rebuild
Monday, November 5th, 2012Sustainability at Harvard University: Impact Report
Thursday, October 25th, 2012HARVARD OFFICE FOR SUSTAINABILITY
The Harvard Office for Sustainability embarked upon the process of developing a university-wide impact report in partnership with Harvard’s twelve Schools and administrative departments in order to:
The Disparate Challenges To Growth
Wednesday, October 24th, 2012INITIATIVE FOR COMPETITIVE INNER CITY
Do hyper-achieving, fast-growing companies have any limits to growth? That was a question ICIC staff hoped to answer as they scrutinized surveys returned by 2012 Inner City 100 winners this past winter. After all, the average winner had seen its revenue increase at a 40% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2006 and 2010 – the Great Recession notwithstanding. Were winners susceptible to economic gravity?
Preventing Commercial Truck Accidents
Monday, October 22nd, 2012Dale Jackson has always been passionate about the open road. In order to help other people realize their dreams, he writes for Capital Solutions, who specialize in a commercial truck financing. Insurance companies and claim lawyers are always trying to assign blame for accidents involving commercial trucks. Depending on who they’re representing, passenger car drivers […]
View this complete post...Transportation Infrastructure in the Post MAP-21 Era
Monday, October 22nd, 2012Innovation NewsBriefs
Vol. 23, No. 27
Proponents of a more robust level of spending for transportation infrastructure ignore the political realities. With mounting deficits and the shadow of a $16 trillion debt hovering over all fiscal decisions, Congress is not about to vastly increase spending on transportation. Concern about deteriorating infrastructure has failed to resonate with the electorate during the election campaign.
Interactive Map: Save Our Bridges
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012SAVE OUR BRIDGES
By accessing the Save Our Bridges Map, users can enter a zip code to immediately see the dangerous bridges in their area. Families can see if their children’s school buses or their own commutes to work or church take them across a bridge that is both structurally deficient and fracture critical. Trucking companies and other suppliers can determine whether the routes their carriers take require that they cross these dangerous bridges.
The Marine Casualty Investigation Process
Monday, October 15th, 2012US COAST GUARD DEPARTMENT OF INVESTIGATIONS AND ANALYSIS Slime and Punishment by LT ERIC RIVERA- Investigations Division One of the unique aspects of the U.S. Coast Guard is that it functions as a military force as well as a law enforcement agency. With that in mind, the USCG has found itself in the forefront of […]
View this complete post...Characteristics of Fatal Crashes Involving 16 and 17-Year-Old Drivers with Teenage Passengers
Thursday, October 11th, 2012AAA FOUNDATION FOR TRAFFIC SAFETY Introduction Teenage drivers are involved in more crashes per mile driven than drivers of any other age group; drivers aged 16-17 are involved in about seven times as many crashes per mile driven as drivers in their forties, fifties, or sixties (General Estimates System, 2012; National Household Travel Survey, 2011). […]
View this complete post...Warnings of an “Infrastructure Crisis” are Meeting with Skepticism
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012Innovation NewsBriefs
Vol. 23, No. 26
Is the “infrastructure crisis” a myth or a reality? Many within the transportation community firmly believe that the crisis is real. They point out that many of our roads, bridges and transit systems are approaching the end of their useful life and are badly in need of repair, reconstruction and modernization.
$11.4 Billion Cut in Federal Transportation Spending Recommended
Monday, October 8th, 2012Transportation Issues Daily The fiscal cliff and automatic budget cuts could be avoided by cutting$11.4 billion from federal transportation spending in 2013 and $187 billion over ten years. The recommended reductions from Taxpayers for Common Sense are part of a $2 trillion package of cuts to “inefficient, ineffective, or wasteful” programs and projects that would solve the […]
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