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Reinventing the urban interstate

Posted on October 10, 2011

TCRP has released a report entitled Reinventing the Urban Interstate: A New Paradigm for Multimodal Corridors. The authors present a new design framework in which multimodal corridors can take one of three forms: Transit oriented …

Posted in NewsTagged capacity, corridors, highways, multimodal, park-and-ride, transit, urban

Achieving a state of good repair

Posted on July 25, 2011

Dr. Michael Meyer from Georgia Tech University (and an expert panel member for several SSTI reports) made a presentation (available here) to USDOT officials about the importance of performance management in improving U.S. highway and …

Posted in NewsTagged highways, performance measures, transit, webinar

Big fixes for our big transportation problems

Posted on July 14, 2011

In a recent Wall Street Journal article, Robert Puentes suggests several big changes that could boost the economy and improve transportation decision-making: Encourage collaboration between the federal government, states, metro areas, and shippers and develop …

Posted in NewsTagged employment, freight, highways, jobs, technology, transit

Big vision, big roads, what now?

Posted on June 6, 2011

We are used to thinking about American’s interstate system beginning with the Eisenhower era’s creation of a national defense highway system in the 1950’s. A new book “The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the …

Posted in NewsTagged engineering, highways, interstates, policy

TRB Webinar: A Community Visioning Approach to Support the Collaborative Decision-Making Framework for Transportation Investments

Posted on May 23, 2011

TRB will hold a webinar on May 25, 2011, from 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EDT that will explore a project developed by TRB’s second Strategic Highway Program (SHRP 2) about ways to incorporate community visioning into …

Posted in NewsTagged highways, investment, TRB, webinar

Do we need more highways?

Posted on May 2, 2011

This question should provoke an interesting debate on the National Journal‘s transportation blog. The question is raised in the context of a survey done by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, showing, not surprisingly that mayors …

Posted in NewsTagged highways, spending priorities, transit, US Conf of Mayors

New direction for the Highway Capacity Manual: Include active traffic management and a multimodal approach

Posted on April 12, 2011

The latest edition of the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) updates how engineers and planners assess the traffic and environmental effects of highway projects. According to TRB: • It is the first HCM to provide an …

Posted in NewsTagged highways, multimodal, publications, TRB, webinar

Tools for accelerating project delivery

Posted on February 18, 2011

In testimony to a Congressional committee on Accelerating Project Delivery, FHWA Administrator Victor Mendez gave examples of tools that save time and money on highway projects. These range from pre-fabricated bridge elements to design-build contracts to …

Posted in NewsTagged FHWA, highways, tools
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