Even as a potential recession dampens the enthusiasm for commercial spending plans, the public sector continues to advance large, complex projects of record breaking magnitude. This is partially because public officials have many funding options, and they are faced with critical infrastructure needs. Many are using alternative funding and innovative methods to deliver infrastructure projects […]
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Thursday, June 1st, 2023Ed Talks: Aggregates Exec Discusses How Waning Infrastructure & Underfunding Hurt America
Friday, March 12th, 2021
It’s a Friday afternoon after a week of frigid temperatures and winter storms and Gary Johnson is speaking with the Americans for Transportation Mobility (ATM) Coalition about the necessity for viable and sustainable federal transportation investment.
View this complete post...Data on Demand: A Case Study in the Los Angeles and Puget Sound Regions
Tuesday, February 25th, 2020
This report examines the data needs that agency staff need to consider when developing a MOD agreement with private providers. Background information on elements of data sharing in this context includes general state of the practice, and challenges and opportunities for transit agencies.
View this complete post...Get to Know Louisiana DOTD Female Engineers
Thursday, February 20th, 2020
As part of National Engineers Week, today is dedicated to introducing a girl to engineering. DOTD recognizes all the female engineers who chose to follow their dream in a historically male dominated occupation.
View this complete post...Miami-Dade SMART Plan Brings into Focus BRT Vision & How Regions are Tackling Transit
Thursday, December 12th, 2019
“It’s important to note that other major U.S. cities, like New York and Chicago, were planned before the automobile. Miami, Miami-Dade — our city, our county, they were planned after the car already existed. We are in a moment, where the decisions we make today will greatly impact the future of our county: How our children and our children’s children will move around and what kind of access they will have,” notes Aileen Bouclé, Executive Director of the Miami-Dade Transportation Planning Organization (TPO).
View this complete post...Traffic Congestion Prompts Miami-Dade County to Focus on Integrated Public Transit Expansion
Thursday, December 5th, 2019
In Miami-Dade County, one of three counties that comprise the teeming Miami metropolitan region, the interstate system, heavily traveled expressways, electronic toll lanes and express buses provide a matrix of connectivity, but the cost of better infrastructure, streamlining public transit to propel ridership, and the need for federal support are foremost.
View this complete post...Understanding How Women Travel
Tuesday, October 1st, 2019
Mobility – or one’s ability to get around – shapes the opportunities we can reach, and the way we interact in and with our communities. Although women comprise over half of all transit ridership in Los Angeles County, their mobility needs, concerns, and preferences have not been critically accounted for in the way our transportation systems are planned. As a result, women tend to bear outsized burdens and risks in the course of their daily travel.
View this complete post...Caution Ahead: 5 Years Later – Assessing Progress and Challenges for New York City’s Aging Infrastructure
Thursday, August 29th, 2019
Our new analysis shows that some of the problems we documented five years ago have only gotten worse, and that the new stressors like climate change have only added to the overall price tag to bring the city’s core infrastructure to a state of good repair.
View this complete post...Civic outreach plans … here’s why they are necessary
Friday, August 9th, 2019
Civic outreach plans are critical components of success for large public projects. In spite of data that proves it, public officials often neglect to develop or implement these types of plans. And, experienced contractors often fail to insist on them.
View this complete post...Civic outreach plans … here’s why they are necessary
Wednesday, August 7th, 2019Civic outreach plans are critical components of success for large public projects. In spite of data that proves it, public officials often neglect to develop or implement these types of plans. And, experienced contractors often fail to insist on them. Why is that? Could it be because there has been too little attention on why […]
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