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/

Networks as Connectors and Disconnectors - We often talk about networks providing connection. The World Wide Web is a network that connects people with websites across the world. But interesting word...

Blue Mountains tunnel plans welcomed by farmers, freight industry but transport academic has reservations - I was interviewed by Michael Condon at ABC Country hour on the Blue Mountains tunnels. A bit of it shows up in the article...

Transportist: May 2021: Our aversion to risk will kill us. - Welcome to the latest issue of The Transportist, especially to our new readers. As always you can follow along at the transportist.org or on Twitter. Hypothesis of...

The City Fix

https://thecityfix.com/

5 Ways to Achieve Circular Development at the Local Level - The circular economy turns linear supply chains into loops so that nothing is wasted. Ideally, there is no more end of the line like a...

In Ahmedabad, India, Women Are Climate Leaders, Not Victims - During the summers, in the crowded informal settlement she calls home in Ahmedabad, India, Meenaben would lay wet jute on the floor and hay on...

Electrifying the School Bus Fleet: How to Put Children First in the Zero-emission Transition - The past year has been all about protecting ourselves and our children from a serious respiratory illness: COVID-19. But as schools reopen and children return...

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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