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Are We Ignoring the Obvious Solution to the Transportation Funding Crisis?

Monday, July 29th, 2013

Innovation Newsbriefs
Vol. 24, No. 10

The July 23 hearing on the Highway Trust Fund made it painfully clear that neither the government witnesses —U.S. DOT’s Undersecretary for Policy Polly Trottenberg and CBO official Kim Cawley — nor any of the participating members of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, had any clue as to how to pay for the hundreds of billions of dollars that transportation boosters say are needed to fund the next reauthorization.

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Can-Do States

Wednesday, July 17th, 2013

Innovation NewsBriefsVol. 24, No. 9 Recently, Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV) called for a $5.5 billion emergency federal program “to fix the nation’s backlog of deficient and structurally obsolete bridges”  (H.R. 2428).  He was responding to the well- publicized collapse of the  I-5 bridge  in Washington State . “It’s an emergency out there,” Rahall proclaimed at […]

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Leading Candidate for New Ranking Democrat for House Highways, Transit Subcommittee

Monday, July 15th, 2013
Eleanor Holmes Norton

Transportation Issues Daily Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton would like to be the next Ranking Member (top Democrat) on the House’s Highways and Transit Subcommittee. The position is very likely to become vacant this month when Rep. DeFazio vacates the position to take over as Ranking on the Natural Resources Committee.  See our updated story for the background. […]

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How Green Is My State?

Thursday, July 11th, 2013
How Green Is My State?

Visua.ly Walking around in your neighborhood, you may see recycling cans on your curb, solar panels on your neighbor’s home, hybrid vehicles in nearby driveways, and mass transit stops just a few blocks away. With all the efforts our communities make to reduce, reuse, and recycle, are other neighborhoods following suit? How about state-wide efforts? […]

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Edwin Hill, International President, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

Friday, June 28th, 2013
Guest on The Infra Blog: Edwin Hill, International President, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

Edwin D. Hill is President of the the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), an office he has held since 2001. As President of a union whose members work in all sectors of the economy, from utility companies to solar panel production plants, from building retrofitting to nuclear power facilities, Mr. Hill has a unique, […]

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Plug-In Electric Vehicles: Challenges and Opportunities

Tuesday, June 25th, 2013
Plug-In Electric Vehicles: Challenges and Opportunities

AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR AN ENERGY-EFFICIENT ECONOMY Introduction Internal combustion engine vehicles running on petroleum fuels have dominated the vehicle market for a century. Global demand for petroleum has increased dramatically over that period, and this demand, coupled with geo-political volatility in many oil-producing regions, has resulted in high oil prices and uncertainty in the market. […]

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State of the City: 5 Trends Impacting America’s Cities

Monday, June 24th, 2013
State of the City: 5 Trends Impacting America

LIVING CITIES Trend 2: Inadequate Infrastructure Failing infrastructure is inhibiting economic growth, sustainability and overall mobility of goods, people, and information. During the 19th century, the industrialization of the U.S. economy and the expansion of railroads led to increased urbanization across the country. As cities began to grow, and people faced difficult and often unsanitary living […]

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Reducing Passenger Train Procurement Costs

Thursday, June 13th, 2013

COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE By David Edmondson* Project Director: Marc Scribner** Interest in passenger rail around the United States has increased in recent years. With their ability to bypass congested freeways and crawling city streets, new passenger rail lines on existing rights-of-way is one way to offer mass transit in metropolitan areas. Yet even if the […]

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How do TIGER 2013 Applications Compare to Past TIGER Programs?

Wednesday, June 12th, 2013
How do TIGER 2013 Applications Compare to Past TIGER Programs?

Transportation Issues Daily Once again we see the latent demand across the country for funding projects that move people and goods more quickly, safely, and cleanly. For the 2013 TIGER (V) program, USDOT received 568 applications requesting more than $9 billion. How much funding does USDOT have to grant? About $474 million. Applications were received from […]

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Computer and Internet Use in the United States

Wednesday, June 12th, 2013
Computer and Internet Use in the United States

UNITED STATES CENSUS BUREAU Introduction In 2011, more Americans connected to the Internet than ever before, although differences continued to exist between those with use and those without. Just as with differences in use, variation in the ways that people were connecting online and the frequency of their use remained prevalent as well. This report […]

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