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Regional and multi-state inter city bus transportation. Thanksgiving is a time of big travel.

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One overlooked segment in regional transportation planning is inter-city bus service/travel. Professor Joseph Schweiterman of DePaul University is rare in that he tracks this form of transportation and he wrote about it for MSNBC News (" Thanksgiving is a stressful time to travel. Why it may get worse for these passengers. ").

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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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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I was surprised to see that Andy Byford has stepped down as CEO of Transport for London, as it was his dream job (" Ex-NYC subways chief Andy Byford quits London gig, plans return to US ," New York Post ). Andy Byford.

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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

All the pundits say the biggest problem is the lack of a regularized funding source, like property tax or sales tax (" DC area transit commission board member thinks he has a brilliant idea on how to fund Metrorail: sales taxes ," 2022; " Metrolinx Toronto: 25 potential tools to fund transit-transportation infrastructure ," 2013).

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To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

An intra-neighborhood shuttle, an element of what I call the tertiary transit (sub)network, would address the problem. Some examples exist, especially in Tempe, Arizona.

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The COG is the union of local governments and designated by the USDOT as the region's metropolitan planning organization for regional transportation planning and coordination. The concept of a multi-regional and multi-state transit network is outlined in " The meta-regional transit network " (2009).

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

When it came, in 2009, it was less deadly than expected, but that does not negate the possibility of a highly contagious disease with a case fatality rate equivalent to that of SARS in 2003, namely 10%. International Air Transport Association, Geneva, 14 pp. Therefore, the world community must take action immediately." Spinney, L.

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