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University Transportation Research Center, Region 2: Annual Report

Wednesday, February 5th, 2014
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UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH CENTER
PLANNING TODAY in Region 2, requires knowledge of multi-modal and intermodal systems serving both freight and passenger movements. Planning in the region involves not only MPOs, but all of the many agencies taxed with the need to move people and goods 24/7. Planning is constrained by institutional mandate and history, the need to catch up with a backlog of capital needs, and a chronic shortage of adequate funds for both maintaining and building the infrastructure.

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February 26-28, 2014: Attend the 7th Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014

The 7th Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum will take place in New York City, February 26 – 28, 2014. The Forum – a strategic projects marketplace – focuses on the 2014 Strategic Top 100 Global Infrastructure Projects. The Leadership Forum structure is a unique, dynamic and interactive platform for 500+ executives from the public and private sectors to participate in a series of rapid project presentations, private meetings & deal sessions, leading keynotes, deep-dive workshops and networking events.

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NYC: Documenting a Flawed Pedestrian Crossing

Monday, January 20th, 2014

Documenting where people have been killed by motorists in 2014.
Map of 2014 traffic violence: batchgeo.com/map/55e0ecd5ce1dcc24badd23efd8fcd254
Map of 2013 traffic violence: batchgeo.com/map/0f05e7eba3d60c353cbc0987c77404a4
Additional #VisionZero2014 videos: vimeo.com/album/2684188

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NYC Streets Metamorphosis: 2002-2014

Tuesday, January 14th, 2014

There’s nothing more dramatic than looking back five or ten years at Streetfilms footage to see how much the streets of New York City have changed. In this wonderful montage, check out the incredible changes at Times Square, Herald Square, the Brooklyn waterfront, and many other places that outgoing NYC DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and her staff have intrepidly transformed.

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NYC: Riders Waiting for Subway in Super Slow Motion

Friday, January 10th, 2014

Excerpt of “Stainless,” 42nd Street

High speed video recording in NYC at Grand Central station.

original footage: 10min. 49sec. 720p 50fps

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Janette Sadik-Khan, Former NYCDOT Commissioner and Strategic Advisory Chair, National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)

Wednesday, January 8th, 2014
Janette Sadik-Khan on The Infra Blog

“We’ve come a long way from where we were 50 years ago, and yet a lot of the design guidance for city streets is routed in back in the 1950s and the 1960s. In order to create a word-class environment for people, you need to have streets that reflect 21st century needs and that are safe and that perform well and are diverse and economically performing.”

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Great American Infrastructure: The High Line, NYC

Tuesday, January 7th, 2014

What: NYC’s Highline Park, constructed on an unused elevated freight rail in the west side of Manhattan
Where: Manhattan’s West Side, between Gansevoort and West 34th Streets
When: The High Line first saw traffic in 1934, and the last train crossed its tracks in 1980. Construction on the park began in 2006, and the first section opened in 2009. Construction on additional sections is projected to continue through 2014.

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Bike Share in Manhattan

Friday, January 3rd, 2014

Bike Share has taken Manhattan by Storm. The bike share system with over 6000 bikes on Manhattan, and 10,000 system wide gets over 33,000 trips per day. On a chilly…not cold (25 degrees) December morning I wanted to try out the system to see how well it worked, and what riding in Manhattan was about. Check the short video to see what I found.

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The Economic Benefits of Sustainable Streets

Wednesday, December 25th, 2013
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NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Solving urban challenges has become the key to addressing global challenges. New York City has been a leader in creating new models for sustainable urban development in recent years, most visibly with the transformation of the city’s streets into more efficient and welcoming spaces that better accommodate all users. In tandem with these planning and engineering efforts, the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) has developed a robust set of metrics to evaluate the outcomes of its projects with respect to the agency’s policy goals, both in the service of continually improving project designs and because the public increasingly expects such data-driven decision-making from government.

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Renewing and Replacing Airport Terminals

Thursday, December 19th, 2013
Rendering of proposed future Terminal A at Newark Liberty International Airport.

AIRPORT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM
As needs change and deterioration occurs, many airport terminals may no longer function as originally intended. Several factors can support the need for redevelopment of a terminal facility…ACRP Report 68: Guidebook for Evaluating Terminal Renewal Versus Replacement Options (2012) is a resource to assist airports in evaluating the costs and benefits associated with renewing or replacing a terminal. The guidebook outlines an objective, four-step process to help identify and assess available options to facilitate informed decision making.

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