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Fleet and Freight Cyber Considerations for Protecting America’s Roads

State Tech Magazine

The United States has one of the most extensive vehicle transportation networks in the world, totaling more than 4 million miles of interstate highways, city freeways and rural roads. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, there were 42,915 motor vehicle–related fatalities in 2021, the largest number since 2005.

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Madison Wisconsin should be rethinking its pedestrian "district"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I wrote about Boulder's in 2005, " Now I know why Boulder's Pearl Street Mall is the exception that proves the rule about the failures of pedestrian malls." College towns in Burlington, Vermont, Madison, Wisconsin, Boulder, Colorado and Charlottesville, Virginia are probably the most successful examples. Flickr photo by Let Ideas Compete.

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To shift away some trips from the car, we need super robust transportation demand management processes

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The State Department of Transportation, which probably should be called the Utah Department of Cars and Trucks, has a proposal to widen I-15 through Salt Lake City to Farmington in Davis County to 6 lanes in each direction--it's four lanes now. Transportation demand management as a priority. I was talking with Suzanne about this and 1.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Walking City urban form is the "urban technology" that supports active cities (" Transportation and Urban Form: Stages in the Spatial Evolution of the American Metropolis" ," " Department stores are an "urban technology" built for walking not driving ," 2024). and Baltimore metropolitan areas ," Transport Policy , 2014.

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I didn't know Cumberland Maryland "had" a pedestrian mall

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I've come to realize that the point isn't necessarily to have a long pedestrian mall, but to start small, where you can be successful, even with one block. The DMV region has two pedestrian malls that I knew about, in Charlottesville and Winchester Virginia.

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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

Inadequacies in school transportation planning ," 2022 -- School Walk and Bike Routes: A Guide for Planning and Improving Walk and Bike to School Options for Students -- Safe Routes to School program , Washington State -- City of Tacoma SRTS program , including SRTS Action Plan -- Starkville in Motion A failed job interview with DDOT.