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Archive for the ‘Transit’ Category

Chicago Infrastructure Trust: A Model For The Future?

Tuesday, November 27th, 2012

In it’s relatively short life span (Mayor Rahm Emanuel introduced it March 2012), the Chicago Infrastructure Trust has garnered it’s fair share of skepticism and awe. Check out what experts, journalists, and Mayor Emanuel himself, have to say on the newly formed Chicago Infrastructure Trust. “Sometimes if you want something done right, you’ve got to do […]

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Long Beach, NY: Post Hurricane Sandy LIRR Restores Electric Train Service

Monday, November 26th, 2012

LIRR restores weekend electric train service on Long Beach branch Sunday, November 25; weekday electric – LIRR2010 on YouTube

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NTSB Most Wanted List

Thursday, November 22nd, 2012

NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD Preserve the Integrity of Transportation Infrastructure What is the Issue?The transportation system is the backbone of America’s economy. Every day, people, goods, and services move across the country through our skies, and on our highways, pipelines, railways, and waterways. The system includes more than 3,300 airports, more than 3.9 million miles […]

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Queens, NY: Rockaways Train Lift

Tuesday, November 20th, 2012

–mtainfo on YouTube.

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Improving Statewide Freight Routing Capabilities for Sub-National Commodity Flows

Monday, November 19th, 2012

WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Executive Summary Existing transportation network models assume that vehicles select the least costly path between origin and destination. This cost can entail time, distance, money, or a combination of these factors. This project used three approaches to investigate the reasonableness of this assumption and produced recommendations for revising the least […]

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Arizona DOT: Class C Truck Load Permitting

Friday, November 16th, 2012

–ArizonaDOT on YouTube.

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NYC Transit Crews Take Charge Before, During and After Hurricane Sandy

Thursday, November 15th, 2012

Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) cameras captured the preparation before the storm hit, the immediate aftermath, and the quick recovery after Hurricane Sandy left the NYC transit system battered and flooded.

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Wichita, KS: Seven Day Bridge Project

Thursday, November 15th, 2012

Watch as a bridge in East Wichita is repaired in seven days.

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New York City: Witnessing Hurricane Sandy by Bike

Thursday, November 15th, 2012

Hurricane Sandy on Bikes in NYC from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.

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Expanded Transportation Performance Measures

Thursday, November 15th, 2012

FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: SYSTEMS PLANNING OFFICE
Growth management has attempted to manage the pace of development while providing or improving transportation services to the users of the transportation system. However, these efforts have largely focused on automobile travelers. The majority of the statutory rules, measurements, management strategies and accountability have been framed in terms of passenger vehicle trips.

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