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Uber: criminal?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Misunderstanding Uber, Taxi regulation and what we might call the "Overground Economy" ," 2013 -- " App based ride services and creative destruction and plain old destruction ," 2014 -- " The false promise of ride hailing as a pro-city transportation mode ," 2018 -- " What a terrible idea: deregulating taxi fares in DC for mobile-based hails (..)

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Foresight

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Everyday risk factors are different when floods, transportation crashes, landslides, toxic spills, structural collapses occur against a background of asymmetric warfare, armed insurgency, fighting or rampant terrorism. One question that is asked relatively rarely is why we exclude warfare from our definitions of disaster. 2011.09.002

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

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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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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

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But the failures in planning extend beyond DC (" Silver Line Metro expansion a classic example of the need to have true regional transportation planning ," 2011). DC does not understand its "unique selling proposition" or "core competency" is being transit- and sustainable mobility-centric. mile distance.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

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The first proposes a "transport association" based on the German VV model, where all the local transit providers commit to integrated service, and a common schedule and fare system. They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. Lots of deaths.

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Walmart to close one of its three DC stores

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And it had one of the best transportation demand management signs I've ever seen in a retail store. weren't sophisticated enough to follow that line of reasoning. Sadly," of the three it has the best building, a traditional design mixed use style that fits in with nearby buildings including the Government Printing Office.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

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Out of region visitors spend on lodging, food, and transportation. The student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points. An important distinction they make is between in region and out of region visitation. This extends to other public lands.) That's not a lot of money.