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L.A. “Carmageddon” Time Lapse – The 405 in 4:05
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011A Time Lapse short film of the 405 Freeway closure in Los Angeles, July 15th – July 17th. 5 Photographers worked on this project. They are: Darren Bates (www.darren-bates.com) Andy Thompson Titano Cruz (www.titanocruz.com) John Moody Byron Valino All scenes were shot during the weekend of July 15th through 17th, 2011 This is just a […]
View this complete post...Public Perceptions on Transportation Characteristics of Livable Communities: The 2009 Omnibus Household Survey
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011![Table 1: Percent of Respondents Who Identified Each Transportation-Related Livability Characteristic as Important–October 2009 Table 1: Percent of Respondents Who Identified Each Transportation-Related Livability Characteristic as Important–October 2009](https://www.infrastructureusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/screen-shot-2011-07-19-at-122129-pm.jpg)
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BUREAU OF TRANSPORTATION STATISTICS
Responses to the 2009 OHS suggest that a majority of the public considered it important to have a wide range of transportation alternatives. The majority also strongly supported the provision of facilities that permit continued reliance on the personal automobile in the community in which they live.
Guest on The Infra Blog: Kathleen Mulligan-Hansel, Deputy Director, The Partnership for Working Families
Thursday, July 14th, 2011![Kathleen Mulligan-Hansel Kathleen Mulligan-Hansel](https://www.infrastructureusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/kmhcrop.jpg)
Kathleen Mulligan-Hansel is the Deputy Director of The Partnership for Working Families. She has deep roots in accountable development work, having served as a founding co-chair and primary staff lead for the Good Jobs & Livable Neighborhoods coalition in Milwaukee while a coordinator of the Working Families Project at the Institute for Wisconsin’s Future.
View this complete post...Bruce McCall – Our Energy Free Transportation Future
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011Want an alternative to vehicular dependence on gas and oil? Forget about electric cars – how about wind-up cars, sail cars, and pogo cars! “Bruce McCall’s Energy Free Transportation Future” envisions our roads and skies as environmentally fantastical places.
View this complete post...Social Media’s Influence on Public Transit
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011HUMAN TRANSIT
When consumers aren’t finding what they’re looking for when it comes to public transportation, they are turning to social media to help garner the influence they need to get the services they’re after. This has left many professionals scratching their heads, uncertain how social media can influence a public service…Here are some answers as to why consumers are turning to social media when it comes to public transportation, as well as how consumers and cities are driving the social media efforts.
Dynamic Traffic Assignment: A Primer
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011![Figure 9 - CLICK TO ENLARGE Figure 9](https://www.infrastructureusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/screen-shot-2011-07-06-at-24619-pm-1024x538.jpg)
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD
Transportation planners and traffic engineers are faced nowadays with immense modeling challenges arising from several emerging policy, planning, and engineering developments. Hence, interest has grown in applying traffic analysis tools capable of analyzing travel activities and dynamic network performance for a corridor or region over peak hours or even extended daily hours.
The Urgency of Reforming the Federal Railroad Administration
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011PEDESTRIAN OBSERVATIONS
House Transportation Committee Chair John Mica (R-FL) has finally come out explicitly in favor of privatizing the Northeast Corridor and letting private consortia bid for high-speed rail construction. Mica’s rationale is that Amtrak is an inefficient government provider, and its proposal for spending $117 billion over 30 years to build high-speed rail in the Northeast is deficient…Not mentioned anywhere in the article is the FRA, which is the real obstacle to modern rail operations. Mica has to my knowledge said nothing about the FRA, which is too bad, since it could feed into the Republican narrative of bad government and the need for privatization and deregulation.
Public Transit Concept Video (Los Angeles): NETWORK_LA Transit
Friday, July 1st, 2011Increasing the movement of people, not cars should be the goal of any public transit initiative.
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