An interactive map from Midwest High-Speed Rail predicts the travel time between stations in the Midwest using high-speed rail.
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Mapping HSR Travel Times
Monday, May 9th, 2011Tomorrow’s Bridges
Friday, May 6th, 2011
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD
Durability is a problem for today’s bridges. Bridge components break down. Soils become unstable. Bridge decks deteriorate, often unnoticed. Replacing bridges can be costly, time-consuming, and disruptive to traffic. And the cycle repeats as bridges age. Innovative methods have been developed for designing and constructing new bridges, repairing existing bridges, stabilizing bridge foundations, and nondestructively testing bridges; but they are not routinely used. Today’s innovations, however, can become tomorrow’s standards.
Track Renewal Train Video: A look at a how a Track Renewal Train (TRT) works, courtesy of Union Pacific
Friday, May 6th, 2011TRT 909 on action. Track renewal train and the track renewal group. For more information go to http://www.connectthemidwest.com the official Midwest High Speed Rail authority.
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Skepticism Greets US DOT’s Draft Transportation Bill
Thursday, May 5th, 2011An undated 498-page draft of US DOT’s legislative proposal for surface transportation reauthorization, the “Transportation Opportunities Act,” has been making the rounds in Washington for the past week. Its publication, however, has been largely ignored by the transportation community. What would ordinarily be an eagerly awaited event and the source of much comment, has passed virtually unnoticed…Partly, it is because the DOT draft contains no surprises: it merely restates the proposals already revealed in the President’s FY 2012 Budget request. But more importantly, the draft has been ignored by Washington stakeholders and political observers because it has been judged to lack political savvy and realism.
View this complete post...COMPLETE STREETS POLICY ANALYSIS 2010: A STORY OF GROWING STRENGTH
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
NATIONAL COMPLETE STREETS COALITION
The power of the Complete Streets movement is that it fundamentally redefines what a street is intended to do, what goals a transportation agency is going to meet, and how the community will spend its transportation money. It breaks down the traditional separation of ‘highways,’ ‘transit,’ and ‘biking/walking,’ and instead focuses on the desired outcome of a transportation system that supports safe use of the roadway for everyone, by whatever means they are traveling.
The Offshore Wind Power Opportunity
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
PIKE RESEARCH
This Pike Research report provides an in-depth analysis of global opportunities in the offshore wind power market, as well as an examination of key challenges facing the industry.
Interactive Map: Flooding in the Midwest
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
An interactive map from the Wall Street Journal displays the severity of the flooding currently happening in the US Midwest, where “Monday evening, the Ohio River gauge at Cairo read 61.44 feet, nearly two feet higher than the record of 59.51 feet set in 1937.”
View this complete post...America’s Marine Highway Report to Congress
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
MARITIME ADMINISTRATION
America’s Marine Highway offers a cost-effective means to improve the economic efficiency, environmental sustainability, public safety and security, and resiliency of our transportation system. It also employs ships and mariners, providing jobs in peacetime and human and capital resources to deploy in time of war or natural disaster. Demand for ships to operate on Marine Highway corridors will also provide new business at the nation’s commercial shipyards.
The Economic Impacts of High Speed Rail: Transforming the Midwest
Monday, May 2nd, 2011
MIDWEST HIGH SPEED RAIL ASSOCIATION
The goal of the study is to provide a candid and impartial assessment of a wide range of investments that will need to be made in railroads, commuter rail and transit to support a HSR hub in downtown Chicago and to help envision the types of land use and development potential that a well-designed, integrated high-speed system could produce for Chicago and its surrounding communities.
BICYCLING ACCESS AND EGRESS TO TRANSIT: INFORMING THE POSSIBILITIES
Friday, April 29th, 2011
MINETA TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE
Increasingly, bicycling and transit are receiving attention in planning circles in their own right. Many countries are experiencing rising levels of cycling and available reports of transit ridership suggest that the United States had the highest transit patronage in 52 years in absolute terms in 2008 despite falling gas prices. Several studies suggest that the growth in both modes may in small part be a result of the integration of the two modes.
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