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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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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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Smart, safe and sustainable cycling: how AI-powered insights will encourage the next generation

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The total value of the UK bicycle market was estimated to be around 47% higher in 2021 than in 2019, and the latest DfT Road Traffic Estimates suggest that cycle traffic in 2021 was 15.7% higher than pre-pandemic levels in 2019. Over the last two years the UK has seen a cycling ‘boom’. Harnessing data to assess impact.

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COVID-19: Baby Bump or Baby Dump?

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The COVID-19 pandemic, by changing experiences across transportation, well-being, caregiving, health care, and jobs, has caused society-wide shifts in behavior with potentially far reaching consequences. Data on the % change in births across these 178 nations from 2019 to 2021 comes from “ Our World in Data ”.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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. My friend says there is no good public transportation from the airport to the city's major hotels. Cool train branding designs though for Tri-Rail.

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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.

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The Inland Empire’s Industry Resilience

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. <paramname=’animate_transition’ value=’yes’ /> This graph shows the differences in industry growth and employment between July 2019 and July 2020. There is, however, one spectacular outlier: transportation and warehousing. This increased to 9.35% in January 2021.

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