The plot may have been targeting a major transportation center, such as a large railroad or subway station, sources close to the investigation said last week.
The plot may have been targeting a major transportation center, like a large railroad or subway station, sources close to the investigation told CNN on Thursday.
Last month, we joined with our friends at Veterans Affairs to launch a new web portal, the Veterans Transportation Career Center aimed at helping veterans find transportation jobs and helping transportation companies find qualified veterans.
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"Traffic forecasting is not an exact science, " agrees Michael Demetsky, head of the Center for Transportation Studies in Charlottesville, Va.
Ford's prototype will increase the aluminum content by 256% over previous models, according to a report conducted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Center for Transportation Analysis.
"These are vital projects, and they'll reinforce the infrastructure of the city, " says Mitchell Moss, director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at New York University.
Chiquita Brands hired Edgar Blanco of MIT's Center for Transportation and Logistics to gauge the carbon footprint of the supply chain that transports bananas by truck and ship from Central America to the United States.
"What everyone has come to realize is that Tom has certainly risen to the occasion, " said Mitchell Moss, director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy at New York University, before the appointment was announced.
Robert Harrison, the deputy director of the Center for Transportation Research at the University of Texas, says intelligent systems that will help control congestion are already in place and will become much more prevalent as time passes.
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In my last year of active duty, I volunteered for Clean Cities Atlanta and the City of Atlanta's Mayor's Office of Sustainability to help make Atlanta Electric-Vehicle (EV) ready -- and ended up working as a full time administrator on a Department of Energy EV Community Readiness Project with the Center for Transportation and the Environment.
If Christie does enter the race, he will certainly tout his ARC decision, the laurels of his fiscal prudence. (It will have particular punch now that his state has settled for far less than the Obama asking price.) And if he squares off with the President, Christie will surely put his transportation decisions at the center of a debate.
The California Center for Innovative Transportation is an affiliate of the UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies.
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"You can't get a fine if you don't fly the flight, " said John Hansman, director of the International Center for Air Transportation at MIT.
The proposed agency would take over the Border Patrol from Justice, Customs from Treasury, the Coast Guard from Transportation, the FBI counterterrorism center and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), among others.
Increasingly, experts see natural gas as the only economically feasible way to build a new, less-polluting, hydrogen-based economy--a vast market allowing the oil industry a second act at the center of a transportation revolution.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued the order Tuesday and told residents who had no transportation to assemble at the convention center to take buses out of town.
The dead include 343 firefighters, 23 New York police officers and 37 officers for the Port Authority, the transportation agency that owned the Trade Center complex -- the twin towers and five smaller buildings.
Together with the San Jose Department of Transportation, the University of California Center for Information Technology Research in the Interests of Society (CITRIS), and two start-up apps, Waze and Roadify, they discovered technology is integral to the future of commuting.
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Another study it cites suggests that a delay in transportation from the South Side to a trauma center "has no impact" (PDF).
Mark Rosekind, a National Transportation Safety Board member who formerly directed a sleep research center at Stanford University, says it's a pervasive problem that requires a culture change to fix.
It attributed the increased risk to the almost five seconds it found that the driver's eyes were off the roadway while texting, said Rich Hanowski, the director of the Center for Truck and Bus Safety at the transportation institute.
Bike transportation was supposed to play a bigger role at the Barclays Center.
The President will convene the meeting via video teleconference with Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano, FEMA Administrator Fugate, Transportation Secretary LaHood, Energy Secretary Chu, and National Hurricane Center Director Richard Knabb.
"Our vision is that one of these plants would be the core element of a community energy center" that could provide a local, sustainable source of both transportation and heating fuel.
The New England Center for Investigative Reporting found that 13 of the 21 companies that got federal transportation money have a history of misconduct.
Houston isn't only the world's energy capital but also boasts the world's largest medical center and, along with Dallas, has become a major corporate and global transportation hub.
While it's no SEMA (the Specialty Equipment Market Association that throws a show for auto tuners at the the Las Vegas Convention Center each fall), CES continues to make a mark on the greater world of transportation, and 2013 will further that trend.
The rebuilding effort also represented a chance to create infrastructure improvements that would have helped the economy directly, such as investments in transportation, water and power systems, according to Arthur Levner-Lam, director of the hazard center at the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
The effort has integrated several transportation subsystems to handle traffic management and monitoring, incident management and traveler information from one transit management information center.
In the comparative study of the cost of mass transit, analysts at Mercer selected the most convenient and popular means of transportation between bus and subway in a given city and gauged the price based upon a ride in the city center for one adult, according to the Mercer analysis team.
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