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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) Included are toxic spills, transportation crashes and the effects of human error. (c) Herbane 2010. and this might give us some basis for distinguishing phenomena by the magnitude of their impacts.

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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. Hamburg's transport association is the model. I first understood the DC area transit planning gap in two dimensions.

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The basic lesson of intensification that government officials and activists don't understand: intensification happens first in high value areas, not low value areas

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the Smart Transportation Guidebook. And why in some places, proximity to transit has little value premium, so creating transit oriented development is very difficult, time intensive, and requires subsidy (" From the files: transit planning in Baltimore ," originally written 2010). I said, "no. He was very surprised.

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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

And that there should be ward-specific subcommittees of the pedestrian and bicycle advisory committees to put greater focus on ward specific improvements (this was something I wrote into the Pedestrian and Bicycle Plan I did for Baltimore County in 2010). ANCs need transportation/traffic safety committees. And public health.

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July 2022 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter

Microsoft Public Sector

SharePoint 2010 Workflows was retired as of November 1st, 2020 with the notice that we would also retire SharePoint Workflow 2013 in the future. At a future date to be determined, we also plan to make this change to Office LTSC, Office 2021, Office 2019, Office 2016, and Office 2013. Action: Review and assess impact.