This bill should maintain - or preferably increase - current levels of funding, provide strong federal leadership for national transportation priorities, protect current assets and expand system capacity, retain the user fee principle for federal highway and transit financing, and expedite the process of transportation project review and approval.
The city plans to enhance services to riders in the coming year, including the application to provide bus arrival times to passengers waiting along bus routes, according to Dennis Mitchell, the advanced transportation management systems project manager with Oregon's Department of Transportation.
New York's Department of Transportation has incorporated into its project planning a simple computer tool developed by The Nature Conservancy to highlight areas where reconstruction will have the greatest benefit for wildlife.
And then last week, in a slightly surprising (but not altogether shocking) turn, the Mayor, Dave Bing, and the U.S. Department of Transportation decided to axe the project in favor of a new fleet of buses.
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The idea behind the project is that active transportation and recreation options are not always easy available to low-income communities.
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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.
The project is addressing the three cornerstone transportation issues of environment, safety and congestion while at the same time encouraging driver acceptance through the prospect of increased "driver comfort".
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The Department of Transportation is currently at work on a pilot project testing the applicability of new parking technologies in the Bronx, including pavement-embedded sensors that could enable drivers to see whether parking spaces are occupied or vacant.
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The state also is working on a joint project with California to evaluate and improve transportation systems for the regions rural routes.
The biggest such change is to transfer day-to-day operations from the High-Speed Rail Authority (HSRA), set up to oversee the project, to the California Department of Transportation.
The project involves pharmacies, drug wholesalers, transportation operators and others to create an ecosystem that ensures women can take advantage of health care quickly and safely.
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It would add the final link in a corridor of mass-transit lanes that will ultimately stretch across Staten Island and north to the mouth of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel a project on which the state Department of Transportation has been at work for more than a decade.
One of the biggest benefits of the Eagle P3 project is that it has shown how the transportation industry can optimize the three-legged financing stool when implementing projects: federal funds, local funds and private funds.
At the Intelligent Transportation Society of America conference here, Portland outlined its urban ITS project, dubbed TransPort.
For example, the Department of Transportation took months off the timeline to approve the Whittier Bridge Replacement project in Massachusetts by working with the state government and doing concurrent project reviews.
The House on Wednesday approved a Republican bill that aims to fast-track the Keystone project as part of another 90-day extension of federal transportation funding.
Some of Gamal's relatives moved to one housing project outside Cairo, but after spending almost their entire salaries on daily transportation to and from factories where they worked in central Cairo, they decided to move back to the city.
Jo Ellen Sines is the VP of Project Development at Corman Construction, Inc and the past Chair of the Maryland Transportation Builders and Materials Association.
Even so, they face a three-year wait for a place in the Jingyuan Road housing project in Beijing's outer Shijingshan district, far away from any public transportation.
"A capital-intensive infrastructure project aimed at cars when the focus should be on more sustainable modes of transportation, is not doing a favor to Mumbai, " said Bina Balakrishnan, a transportation and engineering consultant.
While this project is very much in the experimental stage, it provides a glimpse of what transportation might look like in the future thanks to advanced computer science.
As the resident experts on that stretch of Broadway, he and the Alliance are aware of every pothole, construction project and trash can along the parade route, information that Timpone passes along to the Department of Transportation and the Department of Buildings.
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