Accelerating Amtrak Trains: Will Superfast Train Service In The Northeast Ever Happen?
Governing
Build Now, Pay Later: Gold Line Construction Needs Private Companies
Curbed LA
Congressman Clyburn Sees Stock Fee As Way To Fund Highways Across U.S.
Charleston Regional Business Journal
Effective Public Involvement Using Limited Resources (107p. PDF)
National Cooperative Highway Research Program
EU Eyes Single Ticket For Multi-Transport Journey ("Travellers could plan their trips in a one-stop shop, buying just one ticket for a journey with multiple means of transport instead of going through different long and complex ticketing procedures, if plans from the European Commission go ahead.")
Euractiv
Google Cloud-Computing Applications Get Certification For Federal Government Use
Washington Post
It's Time To Build An Interstate Highway System For Trains
Sacramento Bee
ITS "Cooperative" Systems Aim To Manage National Transport Needs
Fleet Owner
Livability Programs Need Support in Transportation Reauthorization
Planning Report
[D.C.] Metro Offers Real-Time Train Info By Phone
Transit Wire
Metrorail Next Train IVR (video : animated avatars demonstrate how "next train" phone-voice system works)
Most Ambitious Transportation Projects Of The 21st Century (A list of the top ten most impressive and elaborate projects. "Some are already in the works while others are pipe dreams. Can you imagine getting from New York to London in an hour?")
AOL Travel
New Rail Standards Foster Safety, Inter-Operability, And American Manufacturing Jobs
U.S. DOT Fast Lane Blog
Opinion: Tom LaBonge: Expanding Red Line Is Key To Solving Traffic Problems
Los Angeles Daily News
Port Of L.A. Will Delay Immediate Ban Enforcement In Clean Trucks Program
Daily Breeze
San Gabriel Valley Officials Ask Metro To Consider Extending Light-Rail Line To Industry (City Of Industry has "2,600 businesses and 80,000 jobs.")
Whittier Daily News
SCAG Meeting [Today] Could Determine How SoCal Will Grow
StreetsBlog LA
Shoup To O'Toole: The Market For Parking Is Anything But Free
StreetsBlog
SM Planning Commission Hears Arguments For And Against Agensys Bike Path
StreetsBlog LA
Stations Picked, Huge Automated Transit Project For Paris Closer To Realization ("In the Western World, the most significant rapid transit project currently being contemplated is Paris’ 96-mile Grand Paris network that would extend brand-new automated rapid transit lines across and around the region at the eye-popping price of more than twenty billion euros.")
Transport Politic
Train Enthusiasts Line Up For Japan Hotel's Railway Room
Reuters
Transcontinental Shift: Hollywood Is All Aboard At Union Station ("The station has become a bustling film destination thanks to its distinctive architecture, wide open spaces – including a vacant 12,000-square-foot former ticketing concourse and 65-foot-high ceilings – and a reputation for being film-friendly.")
Los Angeles Times
Travel Assistance Device Deployment To Transit Agencies (103p. PDF : TAD provides various informational prompts to transit riders with cognitive disabilities, including the audio messages “get ready” and “pull the cord now,” and vibrates to alert the rider to pull the stop cord. These prompts are delivered to the rider in real-time as he or she rides the bus using the embedded global positioning system technology in off-the-shelf cell phones.)
University Of South Florida National Center For Transit Research
UC Berkeley Researchers Launch High-Tech Transit Study In Bay Area Commute Hot Spot ("A new pilot project by transportation researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, seeks to determine whether commuters will use transit more often if they are provided with accessible, current and information-rich transit, parking and traffic options before they start their journeys. The mobile application is also available in the mobile apps section of www.511.org. Researchers said that the study’s multi-agency cooperation was key to attaining real-time, region-wide data for multiple modes of transportation.")
University Of California Berkeley Institute Of Transportation Studies Press Release
Networked Traveler App
What Is It About 20-Somethings And Cars? (Automobile miles driven by people ages 21-30 has dropped 7.7% since 1995)
The City Fix
Which Way For The Future Of Planning In L.A.?
Planning Report
Winning Transportation Projects Saving Lives, Time, And Money
AASHTO
