Transportation Issues Daily The House draft appropriations bill (read the Subcommittee’s summary) was published late Wednesday and is scheduled to be acted on Thursday at 4pm (Eastern). The proposal reduces Amtrak operating subsidies by about 40%, provides zero funding for high-speed and intercity passenger rail capital grants, zero funding for a new TIGER program, and […]
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How Will House Allocate 2012 Transportation Spending?
Thursday, September 8th, 2011Guest on The Infra Blog: Thierry Geiger, Economist & Associate Director, Centre for Global Competitiveness and Performance
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
Thierry Geiger is Economist and Associate Director with the Centre for Global Competitiveness and Performance and an alumnus of the Global Leadership Fellow Programme at the World Economic Forum. His responsibilities include the development and computation of a wide range of composite indicators as well as analysis for regional and topical projects. His areas of […]
View this complete post...The Global Competitiveness Report 2011-2012
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
Extensive and efficient infrastructure is critical for ensuring the effective functioning of the economy, as it is an important factor determining the location of economic activity and the kinds of activities or sectors that can develop in a particular instance. Well-developed infrastructure reduces the effect of distance between regions, integrating the national market and connecting it at low cost to markets in other countries and regions.
View this complete post...Guest on The Infra Blog: Laura Barrett, Executive Director, The Transportation Equity Network (TEN)
Monday, September 5th, 2011
Laura Barrett is the Executive Director of the Transportation Equity Network and National Policy Director for the Gamaliel Foundation. She been a community organizer for more than 20 years. Laura previously worked as a Field Organizer for the Center for Community Change, and has served as Director of Housing Comes First, the Missouri Public Interest […]
View this complete post...Networking the Green Economy: How Broadband and Related Technologies Can Build a Green Economic Empire
Monday, September 5th, 2011
BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE
Broadband and information communication technologies have the potential of revolutionizing energy management and economic development. With less than five percent of the world’s population, the United States accounts for about a quarter of the world’s energy consumption. A poor communications infrastructure underlies much of our wasted energy use. In order to reduce energy, new communication technologies can be an important tool to better monitor and more effectively use natural resources. Advanced communications, including a more robust wired and wireless web, will play an essential role in facilitating and integrating these technologies.
View this complete post...Road to Recovery: Transforming America’s Transportation
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
THE LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE ON TRANSPORTATION SOLVENCY
The Leadership Initiative for Transportation Solvency is dedicated to developing a nonpartisan solution to fund a better transportation system in the United States. Former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley, former Pennsylvania Governor and Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, and former U.S. Comptroller General and current President of the Comeback America Initiative David Walker led an intensive analysis to find politically realistic measures to fund and fix the transportation program.
View this complete post...Guest on The Infra Blog: Richard G. Luthy, Director of Engineering, Research Center for Re-Inventing Water Infrastructure
Monday, August 29th, 2011
Richard Luthy is the Director of Engineering for the Research Center for Re-Inventing America’s Water Infrastructure. He is also the Silas H. Palmer Professor and former Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. His area of teaching and research is […]
View this complete post...The End of an ARRA
Friday, August 26th, 2011
THE CENTER FOR AN URBAN FUTURE
In the winter of 2009, with more than 1.4 million job losses in the first two months of the year, the federal government passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) into law as a way to quickly inject liquidity into a stalling economy and maintain critical services that would allow individuals and communities to survive through the recession. At first glance, New York City made out pretty well. More than $7 billion in Recovery Act funds went to programs benefitting New York City residents, which was more than many entire states received.
View this complete post...Guest on The Infra Blog: Lexer Quamie, Counsel, Public Policy Department, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Lexer Quamie is a Counsel in the Public Policy Department of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. At The Leadership Conference, she helps facilitate the development of a federal policy agenda for a broad coalition of civil and human rights groups and analyzes federal current civil rights issues and legislation in the areas […]
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