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Bicycling promotion at the neighborhood scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In " Making cycling irresistible in DC 2.0 " (2008) and " Best practice bicycle planning for suburban settings using the action planning method " (2010), I mentioned the need to promote bicycling at the neighborhood scale, to increase biking take up. On Capitol Hill in DC, a few yeas ago a "Kidical Mass" group was formed.

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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Second, during the 2008 crash, I got an email from an activist in response to all the budget and service cuts faced by transit systems. Transit financing My solution: Step 1: creating a regional transport association. And absolutely that it is a key issue. The best time to ask for regularized funding is when you're successful.

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Accelerating the secure exchange of public health data with AIMS, powered by Ruvos and AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Powering fast, secure exchanges of public health data APHL partnered with Ruvos in 2008 to design and build AIMS, a hub-and-spoke model for national public health data exchange. AIMS also facilitates data analysis by providing dashboards displaying visualizations about transport and other metrics.

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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. The idea is that intra-district transportation, especially by SFH residents, could be shifted to shuttles rather than by car. Go to the grocery store, bring back your purchases, without driving.

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Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

RTS did this when they were successful, so that when the 2008 recession hit, they were well placed to operate and survive financial setbacks that crippled other transit authorities who were not as well situated. The director then, Mark R. But it is also a management failure of local government. historic architecture 2.

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Revisiting New Carrollton and the opportunity of transit oriented development: New train hall to be built at transit hub

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

On an e-list there's been a discussion of suburban TOD and someone mentioned this journal article, " Seven American TODs: Good practices for urban design in Transit-Oriented Development projects ," Journal of Transport and Land Use , 2008.)

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

US Homeland Security Council 2005, UK Government 2008), while in others it did not. International Air Transport Association, Geneva, 14 pp. UK Government 2008. It is now more than ten years since there was a general push to induce countries to plan for pandemics (WHO 2005). In some quarters, it had an immediate effect (e.g.,

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