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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Transportation Demand Management programming The reality is, especially in a place like Salt Lake, most people drive. This came up in an email discussion a few weeks ago, and I started listing what I thought should be the elements of an ideal TMD program. The lots are metered, the city collects the revenue, and maintains the lots.

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WMATA "Fleet of the Future" exhibit on the National Mall

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

We took best practices from all over the world — open gangways, more space, better digital screens for real-time information, enhanced video systems to improve safety, a more sustainable aluminum shell, and eye-catching design — and put them in this train,” Metro General Manager and CEO Randy Clarke said in a statement.

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Proof of Broken Windows theory in Philadelphia and New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Fighting blight by fixing up homes could bring down Philly gun violence, new study shows ," WHYY/NPR -- " Abandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violenceAbandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violence ," Penn Today (2023) -- " Urban Blight Remediation as a Cost-Beneficial Solution to Firearm Violence: A Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial (..)

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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Leveraging the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) , CSS manages $6.4 The decision to develop and host the CSP in the AWS Cloud put CSS among the first enterprises to adopt the cloud and build and manage one of the first mission-critical cloud-native applications.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Exercise Cygnus Report.

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DC Public Safety Summit, Wednesday May 10th, 9am

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And I don't see things changing.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Yard sign, Person running for District Six Council in Salt Lake using traffic safety as a campaign issue ," 2023 Transportation management districts.