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Alternative Transportation System Announcement

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Automated Roadway

Freedom Transit is an innovative sustainable electric transportation system. In the initial stage, it will ferry cars, vans and SUVs between metropolitan areas on an automated high-speed roadway accessed via stations.

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California’s Bullet Train in the Court of Public Opinion

Monday, November 14th, 2011

Innovation NewsBriefs Vol. 22, No. 31 California’s Bullet Train in the Court of Public Opinion A business plan released on November 1 by the the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA), has placed the price tag for the LA-SF bullet train project at $98 billion— trippling the $33 billion estimate provided in 2008 in the voter-approved […]

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A First Tentative Step Toward Reauthorization

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Innovation NewsBriefs
Vol. 22, No. 30
Last month we noted some encouraging signs, based on informal indications, of a narrowing of the partisan divide in congressional posture toward transportation legislation (“Bridging the Partisan Divide,” Innovation NewsBriefs, October 10, 2011). The unanimous vote of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) on November 9 to approve the highway portion of the surface transportation reauthorization bill (S. 1813) has confirmed our initial impression.

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MAP-21 – Possible Impacts of Revised Core Transportation Programs

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

Transportation Issues Daily The MAP-21 proposal would consolidate the current seven “core” highway programs into five. Core highway programs are the primary programs through which funding is allocated to states and on to local jurisdictions. I’ve taken a stab at the possible impacts of the consolidation. If you’re analyzing the bill and have additions or […]

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Newsflash: Transportation Project Creates Jobs, Stimulates Economy

Friday, November 4th, 2011

Transportation Issues Daily One of the most frustrating and puzzling arguments against investing in transportation projects is that it doesn’t really have a positive impact on jobs and economic recovery.  Here’s the latest example of how investing in infrastructure does have a positive impact. In Washington state rural county with an unemployment rate of 13%, […]

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Clarifying Reauthorization Bill Math

Monday, October 31st, 2011

Innovation NewsBriefs Vol. 22, No. 29 An October 26 letter from Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee to Rep. John Mica (R-FL), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee has brought to the surface the confusion over funding of the multi-year surface transportation authorization. Sen. […]

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Technology’s Role In Moving People & Goods Quicker, Safer, Cleaner

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

Transportation Issues Daily When you traveled today – whether by car, bus, rail, plane or bike – technology made your trip safer, faster, and cleaner than in the past.  That technology may have been obvious to you (hybrid vehicles, GPS) or not (traffic light synchronization, interstate weigh-in-motion for trucks). Yet our transportation network can be […]

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President’s Jobs Council: Invest Aggressively in Transportation

Monday, October 17th, 2011

Transportation Issues Daily AASHTO, the national association of State DOTs, reports in their weekly transportation report: “While debate about job creation continued in Washington this week, the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness met Tuesday in Pittsburgh. The council released a report urging the federal government to “invest aggressively and efficiently in cutting-edge infrastructure.” The […]

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Infrastructure Bank is DOA in House, Mica Declares

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

Transportation Issues Daily House Transportation Chair John Mica opened a hearing on an infrastructure bank by stating “I’m afraid that the national infrastructure bank is dead on arrival in the House.” The lone witness in favor of creating a federal infrastructure bank, Marcia Hale, president of Building America’s Future, observed a federal infrastructure bank is […]

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Bridging the Partisan Divide

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

Innovation NewsBriefs Vol.22, No. 28 Two infrastructure-focused meetings on Capitol Hill — one sponsored by the liberal-leaning (or “center-left” as they prefer to be called) Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), the other by the conservative-leaning Free Congress Foundation — have sent an encouraging signal that, when it comes to investment in transportation, the partisan divide is […]

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