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The 3rd annual Smart Cities New York is coming May 13-15 to New York City. This year’s program encompasses hundreds of exhibits, presentations, panels, workshops and side events. According to the event organizers, “SCNY is North America’s leading global conference for innovators and decision-makers who are improving life in the cities of tomorrow.”
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Four ACEC member firms take the lead in creating pioneering transportation networks: Burns Engineering, Philadelphia; Apex Design Denver; HDR Omaha, Nebraska; Creighton Manning Engineering, Albany
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To get a sense of what might happen in public infrastructure financing for transportation, water—and renewable energy— over the coming five to 10 years, Engineering Inc. spoke with leading analysts in those fields.
View this complete post...Some of the nation’s larger transit authorities are making plans to spend billions of dollars over the next two to four decades. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA)’s CEO Jeff Parker says that the transit authority will invest $100 billion in transit and tech over the next four decades. He notes that the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority will also commit $120 billion over the next 40 years. Government leaders in Washington, D.C., say an investment of $500 billion over 20 years by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is not unrealistic.
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Portland’s freeways have been getting more and more crowded. Just how bad is detailed in two new reports. Solutions are out there, but aren’t easy or cheap.
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Because the damage from Sandy cannot be fully repaired without closing down each of the two tubes in the tunnel, the only way to avoid several years of sharply reduced service is to build a second tunnel that could keep full service running while the existing tunnel is repaired. But it will take several years to construct a new tunnel, and full construction cannot start until funding is secured. Each day that passes without agreement on funding for a new tunnel makes it more likely that a tunnel shutdown will happen first.
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Public transit is undergoing a dramatic transition as economic and technological changes shift the needs and desires of existing and potential riders. New entrants in the urban mobility space provide exciting options for travel and help prompt a fresh conversation about new kinds of partnerships and deploying the latest technologies. Many appear interested in their agencies’ role as managers of mobility options across cities and metropolitan areas.
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While women are making up more of the workforce than they were a few decades ago, some industries continue to struggle with attracting and retaining women. The attraction and retention of women in the transportation industry is an international challenge, even with the increases in women in the labor force and increases in educational attainment by women. The transportation industry includes any occupation, and is not solely limited to transportation engineering, planning, operations, maintenance, and research.
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Check out the progress building the Roosevelt light rail station. It’s part of the Northgate Link extension opening in 2021. See more at: https://www.soundtransit.org/blog/platform/fresh-pics-going-underground-roosevelt-station
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This week on NCDOT Now: People from around the world gathered at the Raleigh Convention Center for the first ever Transportation Summit.
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