The Infrastructure Show's Links of Interest

Links

The following are links to on-line sources of information and news on infrastructure topics.

Blogs/News:

The Transportist

Professor David Levinson’s blog: https://transportist.org/

Access as a performance indicator in a work-from-home world - David Zipper writes Post-Covid, Transit Agencies Must Look Beyond Ridership for Bloomberg CityLab. In the article, Zipper talks about using transit access as a performance...

Transportist: February 2021 - So in personal news, my family and I were awarded Permanent Residency status in Australia (this is like the Green Card for US immigrants). So...

The City Fix

https://thecityfix.com/

Lax Regulation Doesn’t Fully Explain Unsafe Buildings in African Cities: A View from Ghana - Incidents of building collapse are worryingly common in large African cities. One study counted 54 building collapse deaths and 122 injuries in Kampala, Uganda, between 2004 and...

4 Recommendations to Electrify the Federal Fleet - In his first week in office, President Biden signed an executive order that gives federal agencies 90 days to devise a plan that fully transitions...

Traffic Evaporation: What Really Happens When Road Space is Reallocated from Cars? - Road development throughout the 20th century was based primarily on the premise that more infrastructure eases traffic. But evidence shows that road building, instead of...

Streetsblog USA

https://usa.streetsblog.org/

Podcast Topic Information: (in order of related podcast date)

The following links contain information related to the podcast interviews on this website.

Modeling Residual Flood Risk Behind Levees

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S146290111630003X
N. Pinter, F. Huthoff, Jennifer Dierauer, Jonahan Remo, and Amanda Damptz, “Modeling residual flood risk behind levees, Upper Mississippi River, USA,” Environmental Science and Policy, Vol. 58, Spring 2016, pp. 131-140.

Los Angeles Metro Project Tracker

https://www.metro.net/interactives/datatables/project/

Earthquake Resilience for San Francisco’s Tall Buildings

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=2ahUKEwjP546g4v_gAhXEx4MKHSebAdQQFjAAegQIChAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonesanfrancisco.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Finline-files%2FATC-119-1_SF_TallBuildingsStudy_FINAL.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2oa3bSNXUkjx3892fbgxYs

Delaware Strategic Highway Safety Plan

https://www.deldot.gov/Programs/DSHSP/index.shtml

San Francisco County Transportation Authority

https://www.sfcta.org/

Federal Highway Administration video on bridge inspection standards

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/federal-aidessentials/catmod.cfm?id=87

Bus Rapid Transit Works: Countering the Myths, by S.L. Zimmerman and H.S. Levinson

http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/trnews/trnews303.pdf
pages 23-27

Regional Plan Association, "How Sea Level Rise Threatens the Tri State Region."

http://library.rpa.org/pdf/RPA-Under-Water-How-Sea-Level-Rise-Threatens-the-Tri-State-Region.pdf

High Rise Fires and the Choice of Building Materials

http://www.nfpa.org/exteriorwalls

DC Water’s Environmental Impact Bonds

https://www.dcwater.com/sites/default/files/project/documents/2017%20Fall%20PR-A%20Factsheet.pdf

Elevators and building design

http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/45fqq6ze9780252037542.html

New York City Water Supply System

http://www.bonelevine.net/water-works/

CREATE

http://www.createprogram.org/

Pennsylvania transportation funding

http://www.penndot.gov/about-us/Pages/Act-89-Funding-Plan.aspx

ASCE Report Card

https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/

Nuisance Flooding

http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/publications/NOAA_Technical_Report_NOS_COOPS_073.pdf

Savannah Harbor Expansion Project

http://www.gaports.com/shep/

Sea level rise

http://www.georgetownclimate.org/adaptation-tool-kit-sea-level-rise-and-coastal-land-use

St. Croix Crossing Project

http://www.dot.state.mn.us/stcroixcrossing/

Second Avenue Subway

http://www.mta.info/capconstr/sas/

The Eagle P3 East Rail Line

http://www.rtd-fastracks.com/main_189

Golden Gate Bridge 75th Anniversary

http://www.goldengatebridge75.org/

Alternative Fuels

http://cta.ornl.gov/data/index.shtml

Challenging Inspections

http://www.wje.com/

Transportation Data

http://dc.streetsblog.org/2012/03/20/no-data-big-problem/

Panama Canal (I)

http://theinfrastructureshow.com/images/57.jpg
(Photo)

Panama Canal (II)

http://theinfrastructureshow.com/images/58.jpg
(Photo)

The Dulles Airport Metrorail Project

http://theinfrastructureshow.com/images/53.jpg

Structural Failures

http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Engineer-Science-Global-Problems/dp/0307272451/ref=pd_rhf_shvl_2

New Materials

http://www.transstudio.com

Inland waterways – I

http://www.ittsresearch.org/adobe/ITTS-presentation-WCI-inland-navigation.pdf

Inland waterways – II

http://www.ittsresearch.org/adobe/ITTS-TRB-preformance-measures-conference-challanges-of-applying-freight-preformance-measures.pdf

Recycled Plastic Bridges

http://theinfrastructureshow.com/audio/downloads/Worlds-First-Thermoplastic-Bridge.pdf

Power Infrastructure

http://mydocs.epri.com/docs/CorporateDocuments/SectorPages/PDU/1017894TransmissionEfficiencyWorkshop11-09.pdf

91 Express Lanes

http://www.octa.net/uploadedfiles/Files/pdf/cmp05.pdf

I-580 Ramp

http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist4/mazedamage/
(scroll down to "Project Data")

New I-35W Bridge

http://www.figgbridge.com/new_I-35W_bridge_book.html

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Descriptions of photos at top of page, from left to right:
bicycle riders in a bike lane in the Chelsea District of New York, NY; Nellis Solar Power Plant, Clark County, NV; towboat and barge on the Chicago River in Chicago, IL; VIA Metropolitan Transport bus in San Antonio, TX.
All photos courtesy of Wikipedia.

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