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

Blogs/News:

The Transportationist

Transport Research Association for NSW (TRANSW)

The Transportist: September 2018 - Welcome to the September 2018 issue of The Transportist, especially to our new readers. As always you can follow along at the blog or on Twitter. Posts A Political...

When pushing the pedestrian button works and when it doesn’t | SMH - Nigel Gladstone of The Sydney Morning Herald answers: When pushing the pedestrian button works and when it doesn’t. (The answer is it doesn’t work in the...

The City Fix

Million Cool Roofs Challenge Covers the Global ‘Cooling Crunch’ From Another Angle - Cities in the global south today face a complex challenge: like all cities, they need to reduce carbon emissions, but they also need to expand...

Urban Transformations: In Medellín, Metrocable Connects People in More Ways Than One -  Metrocable is a finalist for the WRI Ross Prize for Cities. Medellín, Colombia, used to be the murder capital of the world. With the...

PODCAST: The Political Economy of Air Quality with Jessica Seddon - Did you know that air quality is a major contributor to global warming? Or that poor air quality can reduce sunlight, disrupting rainfall patterns, depressing...

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

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

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