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Archive for the ‘Congestion’ Category

Seattle: Brightwater 8/16 Tunnel

Friday, August 19th, 2011

Brightwater 8/16 Tunnel – KCDOTVideo on YouTube … “In response to increased growth in our region, King County is constructing a new regional wastewater treatment plant, called Brightwater. Construction started in 2006. Treatment plant start-up and operations will begin in 2011, with the entire system scheduled to be completed in 2012.” King County, Washington

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San Francisco: Crossing the Bay

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

Denisa Trenkle – Graphic Designer/ Script Writer Bjorn Rostad – Animator Jordan Salinger – Producer Micah Hilt – Project Manager Egon Terplan – Musical Composer/ Script Editor Jonathan Rogers – Researcher Sarah Dennis Phillips – Narrator Noah Christman – Audio Assistant Anthony Bruzzone – Content Consultant Contact: denisa_trenkle@gensler.com or jordan.salinger@gmail.com – Spur on Vimeo

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Transportation and Health: Policy and Conventions for Safer, Healthier People and Communities

Friday, August 12th, 2011
SafeTrec

SAFETREC

The public road system in the U.S. is the world’s busiest, sustaining more than 3 trillion vehicle- miles of travel each year on a network of more than 4 million miles of roads and highways. It has had enormous positive impacts on U.S. society, driving economic growth and innovation, providing mobility and opportunity to its users, and helping the U.S. maintain its global economic competitiveness.

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Building America’s Future: Falling Apart and Falling Behind

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

Building America’s Future’s just released a report entitled, Falling Apart and Falling Behind. InfrastructureUSA’s Managing Director Steve Anderson discussed the findings with former Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell, a Co-Chair of President of Building America’s Future’s Educational Fund (BAF), and Marcia Hale, President of BAF.

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America THINKS 2011: Corridors of the Future Survey

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
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AMERICA THINKS

According to the latest America THINKS survey from HNTB Corporation, people are fed up with congested, crumbling roads and are looking for decisions from local and regional officials about how to prioritize fixing them.

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Zipcar Baltimore Car Share Members Drive Less, Give Up Cars, Use Mass Transit

Thursday, July 21st, 2011
Ride to the Capitol 2008

CLEAN TECHNICA By: Andrew Burger Urban transport is changing in any number of innovative ways as cities around the US look to alleviate traffic congestion, reduce air pollution and make their cities more “livable.” One year on, the driving habits of Zipcar members in Baltimore have changed substantially, and that’s having several beneficial effect on […]

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L.A. “Carmageddon” Time Lapse – The 405 in 4:05

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

A Time Lapse short film of the 405 Freeway closure in Los Angeles, July 15th – July 17th. 5 Photographers worked on this project. They are: Darren Bates (www.darren-bates.com) Andy Thompson Titano Cruz (www.titanocruz.com) John Moody Byron Valino All scenes were shot during the weekend of July 15th through 17th, 2011 This is just a […]

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How We Travel: A Sustainable National Program for Travel Data

Thursday, July 14th, 2011
FIGURE ES-1 Schematic of a national travel data program.

TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD
The U.S. transportation system serves hundreds of millions of travelers and handles millions of tons of freight each day to help ensure the efficient movement of people and goods in support of personal goals and domestic and international commerce. A well-functioning transportation system is essential for business travel and tourism, yet no national data have been collected on long-distance, intercity passenger travel by surface transportation modes since 1995.

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Environmental Justice Spotlight: LACBC’s Low-Income Communities Strategy

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
Bicycle and Pedestrian Fatalities and Population Density

LOS ANGELES COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION
There are many high-density urban areas in Los Angeles County with large numbers of transit -dependent residents and high rates of walking and bicycle usage, yet they tend to contain much fewer, if any, bicycle facilities. Not surprisingly, data extrapolated from the TIMS database created by SafeTrec at UC Berkeley shows disproportionately higher concentrations of pedestrian and bicycle crashes in low-income areas than in more affluent areas.

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Hollywood Infrastructure: Gone in 60 Seconds

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

Many say that infrastructure is not sexy, but the film industry has been proving the opposite for decades. InfrastructureUSA’s video series, HOLLYWOOD INFRASTRUCTURE, pays homage to one of our greatest silver-screen stars.

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