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Transportation Statistics Annual Report (TSAR) 2010

Monday, June 6th, 2011
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BUREAU OF TRANSPORTATION STATISTICS (BTS)
RESEARCH AND INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY ADMINISTRATION (RITA), U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

The Transportation Statistics Annual Report (TSAR) presents data and information compiled by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), a component of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT’s) Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), to fulfill its legislative mandate. The RITA/BTS mandate covers all modes of transportation and calls for the collection and analysis of transportation data on topics relevant to USDOT’s strategic goals.

The Annual Highlights section focuses on recent USDOT efforts to collect, compile, analyze, and publish transportation data and analysis. Such efforts include the following:
* the Survey of State Funding for Public Transportation,
* Livable Communities and Environmental Sustainability highlights from the Omnibus Household Survey, and
* Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) data and analysis on Hazardous Materials (Hazmat) shipments.

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Recapturing Global Leadership in Bus Rapid Transit: A Survey of Select U.S. Cities

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
The El Monte Busway in Los Angeles, California, built in the early 1970s, was an early forerunner of BRT. Photo: Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library — Los Angeles Country Metropolitan Transportation Authority

INSTITUTE FOR TRANSPORTATION & DEVELOPMENT POLICY
Bus Rapid Transit was first implemented in Curitiba, Brazil in 1974, and has become a global phenomenon in the twenty-first century. Major new BRT projects have opened since the turn of the century in Africa, Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Turkey, several cities in Europe, and dozens of cities in Latin America…Though it is still in its infancy in the United States, several good BRT systems have opened in the country over the last decade, and perhaps a dozen new projects are in the pipeline in cities from San Francisco to Chicago. In many ways, the spread of BRT in the twenty-first century mimics the worldwide spread of the streetcar a century earlier.

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VDOT: A Tale of Two Tunnels

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

VDOT Pictures proudly presents “A Tale of Two Tunnels,” an epic tale extolling the virtues of using the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel to get to the beach this summer season! Critics are raving! Visit www.virginiadot.org. – vdotweb on YouTube

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Transit and Regional Economic Development

Friday, May 20th, 2011
Employment Composition of Station Areas with Very High Employment Density, by Sector, 2008

CENTER FOR TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT
In many regions throughout the country, the fastest growing employment centers are now located in auto-oriented suburban communities at the edge of metropolitan regions. From a public transportation perspective, dispersed and low-density employment centers are very difficult to serve through fixed-guideway transit. The location of new jobs at the edge also has important equity implications, as low-income residents have difficulty accessing jobs in auto-oriented suburbs from their inner city, urban, or rural neighborhoods.

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A Glimpse into the Past: Archival Infra Films

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

These archival infra films show us how things used to be built, and how systems used to run.

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Missed Opportunity: Transit and Jobs in Metropolitan America

Monday, May 16th, 2011
Figure 1. Share of Working-Age Residents with Access to Transit, by Region, 100 Metropolitan Areas

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Transportation leaders should make access to jobs an explicit priority in their spending and service decisions, especially given the budget pressures they face. Metro leaders should coordinate strategies regarding land use, economic development, and housing with transit decisions in order to ensure that transit reaches more people and more jobs efficiently. And federal officials should collect and disseminate standardized transit data to enable public, private, and non-profit actors to make more informed decisions and ultimately maximize the benefits of transit for labor markets.

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Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) and Employment

Friday, May 13th, 2011
Figure 1: Transit Trips in the United States by Purpose, 2007

CENTER FOR TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT
This report explains why TOD is not only about housing, and conscious planning for employment is important in thinking about the effectiveness of transit investment and the market for transit-oriented housing.

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A Citizen’s History of the Grand Rapids Streetcar

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

6th-generation Grand Rapids, MI citizen Fred Quillin displays his passion for Grand Rapids history, and outlines how learning from the past can provide innovations for the future.
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2010 Sustainable Streets Index

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
Citywide Transit and Traffic

NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Looking beyond the recession, sustainable modes of transportation will likely absorb increased travel generated by economic and population growth – but only if the City and the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) commit the resources to support these modes. The importance of investing in transit and other transportation improvements is illustrated by the two bright spots in the overall picture in the last several years. First, while the bus system as a whole was losing ridership, new Select Bus Services (SBS) in the Bronx and Manhattan attracted increased bus ridership. In a similar vein, continued expansion of the bike network spurred large increases in cycling both into the Manhattan core, and in other areas of the city.

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$2 Billion High-Speed Rail Investment

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

The Department’s Federal Railroad Administration selected 15 states and Amtrak to receive $2.02 billion for 22 high-speed intercity passenger rail projects as part of a nationwide network that will connect 80 percent of Americans to high-speed rail in 25 years.

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