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CA on the line for bulk of high-speed rail costs?
The Los Angeles times published an article yesterday about the murky future of federal funding for high-speed rail in the state. "If the federal government and private investors are not going to...
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Congress set to kill off High Speed Rail funding
The U.S. Congress voted today on a new transportation bill. Included in the bill was language that killed funding for Obama's High Speed Rail program. From AP: The House voted Thursday to kill funds...
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Parking Minimums: Revisiting an old problem
In today's New York Times, architecture critic Micahel Kimmelman looks at parking requirements for urabn development and he doesn't like how things have been going. For big cities like New York it is...
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More on PPPs and Road Financing
Yesterday we talked about Britain's proposed privatization of their transport infrastructre and made an error when we said the Pennsylvania Turnpike was leased to a private company. In 2007 bidding was...
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Research in Transportation Economics focuses on Transport Development in China
This year's Research in Transportation Economics focuses on Transport Development in China. The articles examine issues such as the impact of highspeed rail on aviation, port competiveness, and the...
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#BARTSTRIKE
At midnight July 1 2013, after failed negotiations between BART and its two main unions, BART workers went on strike. The strike has disrupted transportation throughout much of the Bay Area-...
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Book of the Week: Introduction to Air Transport Economics
We're starting a new series here highlighting different books from our collection. This week we're focusing on a new book about aviation. Introduction to Air Transport Economics: From Theory to...
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Friday Seminar: How the Eastern Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge...
Today's TRANSOC Friday Seminar features UCTC Assistant Director Karen Trapenberg Frick will presenting about the evolution of the Eastern Span San Francisco-Oakland of the Bay Bridge from an ordinary...
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CPUC Regulates Network Transportation Companies
Yesterday the California Public Utilities Commission unanimously voted to regulate network transportation companies. This means that companies like Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar will still be able to operate...
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Transport Infrastructure and the World Cup
Last week the 2014 FIFA World Cup kicked off in Brazil. Mega sporting events, like the World Cup and the Olympics, often require mega infrastructure projects for the hosts. For this World Cup,...
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Alaska Airlines buys Virgin America
flickr photo shared by tearbringer under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC ) licenseAfter some brief speculation, it was announced this morning that Alaskan Airlines' parent organization bought Virgin America...
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Today is Is the name Adriana Gianturco familiar to you? She was the director of Caltrans from 1976 to 1983, the first woman to serve in that role. (Just this month Laurie Berman started her tenure as...
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