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Consumer Impacts of California’s Low-Carbon Transportation Policies

Tuesday, April 19th, 2016

CONSUMERS UNION
California is a global leader in developing and implementing clean transportation policies. The State’s regulatory approach is multifold, using various policy instruments to improve the efficiency of vehicles, reduce the carbon intensity of fuels, and increase options for mobility. These policies are a mix of market-based approaches, direct regulation approaches, and planning opportunities. These policies will have impacts on the pricing of consumer goods such as automobiles and fuels– both of which represent a significant share of consumer expenditures.

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Tags: CA, California, Carbon, Consumer Reports, Consumers Union, Emissions
Posted in Clean Air, Climate Change, Environment, Infra Views, Local, Policy, Pollution, Sustainability

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San Diego, CA: Fixing a Broken Intersection in City Heights

Thursday, April 14th, 2016

District 9 Council Representative Rudy Vargas-Lima, confirmed that the City will move forward creating a “marked crosswalk” with “rectangular rapid flash beacons” and that the project is funded, but not scheduled at this time…The intersection falls just outside the El Cajon Mobility Study, an ongoing project to develop infrastructure improvements that benefit the Rapid Bus service and make the corridor more friendly to pedestrians and cyclists.

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Tags: Bicycling, CA, California, City Heights, Cycling, El Cajon, El Cajon Mobility Study, Pedestrian, safety, San Diego, Speak City Heights, Video, YouTube
Posted in Equity, Local, Roads, Show Us Your Infra, Urban Planning

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UCLA State of the Commute

Thursday, March 24th, 2016

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
University commuters used alternative transportation modes at a rate far higher than Los Angeles County commuters as a whole, a pattern that held true for all major modes. More than 15% of UCLA employees and more than 39% of students were pedestrians or bicycle commuters, options exercised by less than 4% of LA County commuters. Thirteen percent of UCLA employees and more than 25% of students commuted by public transit, compared to only 7% for all of LA County. Finally, more than 14% of UCLA employees commuted by carpool or vanpool, while 10% of LA County commuters used one of these modes.

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Tags: CA, California, LA, Los Angeles, UCLA, University of California Los Angeles
Posted in Buses, Clean Air, Congestion, Infra Views, Local, Public Opinion, Public Transportation, Transit

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Gamechangers: How Energy Storage Transforms the Power System

Monday, February 29th, 2016

Policymakers, utility executives and energy storage pioneers come together to discuss how energy storage is changing the face of the electric grid.

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Tags: California, Energy Storage, Energy Storage North America, ESNA, Southern California Edison
Posted in Energy, Environment, Local, Policy, Show Us Your Infra, Sustainability, Technology

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San Diego, CA: Downtown Mobility Plan

Friday, February 26th, 2016

CITY OF SAN DIEGO
CIVIC SAN DIEGO
City centers across the nation are experiencing revival and renaissance. Urbanized communities are becoming increasingly desirable, with more people showing interest in living and working in locations with a variety of mobility, cultural, entertainment, employment, and housing options. A combination of transportation strategies is needed to accommodate these shifting attitudes and accompanying influx of residents, employees, and visitors to urbanized areas – even more so in downtown areas already experiencing high concentrations of residential and employment populations.

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Tags: CA, California, City of San Diego, Civic San Diego, mobility, San Diego
Posted in Biking, Buses, Congestion, Equity, Infra Views, Land Use, Local, Public Transportation, Smart Growth, Transit, Urban Planning

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Building California’s Future Begins Today

Friday, February 19th, 2016

CALIFORNIA INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND FUNDING GAPS

OFFICE OF THE STATE TREASURER OF CALIFORNIA
JOHN CHIANG, TREASURER

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Tags: CA, California, John Chiang, Office of the State Treasurer of California
Posted in Aging Infrastructure, Funding, Infra Views, Local, Policy

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Jeff Morales, CEO, California High-Speed Rail Authority

Tuesday, January 26th, 2016

Jeff Morales is the Chief Executive Officer of the California High-Speed Rail Authority and has a distinguished record of experience managing large and complex transportation issues and projects. As the former Director of the California Department of Transportation, Morales managed a $10 billion program and more than 23,000 employees working to build, maintain and operate the largest state transportation system in the U.S.

“California, with the leadership of Governor Brown and the legislature—we’ve taken the position that we’re going to advance this program with or without additional federal support, and we’ve committed to doing that and are doing that, and we’ve got major construction underway in the Central Valley on the first segment.”

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Tags: CA, California, California High-Speed Rail Authority, CHSRA, HSR, Jeff Morales
Posted in Guests on The Infra Blog, High Speed Rail, Local, Public Transportation, Rail, The Infra Blog

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California HSR: Fresno River Viaduct Update

Tuesday, January 26th, 2016

Construction Manager Hugo Mejia offers an update on the construction of the Fresno River Viaduct in Madera.

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Tags: CA, California, California High-Speed Rail Authority, CHSRA, Fresno, High Speed Rail, HSR, Hugo Mejia, Video, YouTube
Posted in High Speed Rail, Local, Rail, Show Us Your Infra

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Los Angeles, CA: Bike Coop Brings Mobility to Leimert Park

Tuesday, January 12th, 2016

“We’ve been conditioned to think that the road and the city belong to cars. We need to turn it around so it belongs to people. Everybody should have access to the city.” – Ade Neff

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Tags: Ade Neff, Bicycling, California, Cycling, ioby, LA, Leimert Park, Los Angeles, Ride On!, Vimeo
Posted in Biking, Local, Show Us Your Infra, Smart Growth, Transit, Urban Planning

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How Data Helps Get You There Faster

Wednesday, December 30th, 2015

Traditionally, pavement inductive loop sensors are used to collect real time traffic data for passenger-freight movement in roadways. This method, however, is expensive to install and maintain. In the last decade, significant improvements have been achieved in MEMS sensors domain with respect to size, cost and accuracy. Motivated by these novel advances, we proposed a wireless MEMS sensor based passenger-freight interactions detection framework for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Our proposed solution will be significantly cost effective in comparison to traditional induction loop approach and it is scalable to cover millions miles of roadways all over the US.

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Tags: CA, California, California State University, Data, ITS, MEMS, Mohammad Mozumdar, USC Price, Video, YouTube
Posted in Congestion, Show Us Your Infra, Technology, Telecommunications

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Posts Tagged ‘California’

Consumer Impacts of California’s Low-Carbon Transportation Policies

San Diego, CA: Fixing a Broken Intersection in City Heights

UCLA State of the Commute

Gamechangers: How Energy Storage Transforms the Power System

San Diego, CA: Downtown Mobility Plan

Building California’s Future Begins Today

Guest on The Infra Blog: Jeff Morales, CEO, California High-Speed Rail Authority

California HSR: Fresno River Viaduct Update

Los Angeles, CA: Bike Coop Brings Mobility to Leimert Park

How Data Helps Get You There Faster

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