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 newsletter: https://www.transportist.net
Transportist: April 2025 - Welcome to the latest issue of The Transportist, especially to our new readers. As always you can follow on Mastodon, or RSS....
Improved Spatial Equity in Healthcare Access from Novel Logistics Strategies - Recently published Song, Changle, Dennis, M., Burns, B, Levinson, D. and Moylan, Emily (2025) Improved Spatial Equity in Healthcare Access from Novel Logistics Strategies. ...
Australia's Vertical Disintegration: Part 2 - It is infrastructure week (month, quarter) at the Transportist Homestead. This post continues our look at Australia’s vertical disintegration of essential infrastructure. Last time, we...
The City Fix
Transforming Transportation 2025: What Did We Learn? - Transforming Transportation 2025 is in the books. After a year of geopolitical turmoil and escalating climate impacts, the transport sector is seeing rapid change on...
Beyond the Thermometer: 5 Heat Metrics That Drive Better Decision-Making - The way scientists and policymakers measure heat as they seek to combat rising temperatures across the world’s cities requires more nuance than just looking at...
3 African Cities Restore Nature To Revitalize Their Rivers - Africa’s cities, from large metropolises to smaller towns, are increasingly characterized by growing urban sprawl. Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, is expanding by about 2,000 people and 5...
Streetsblog USA
Podcast Topic Information: (in order of related podcast date)
The following links contain information related to the podcast interviews on this website.
A.C. O’Conner, M.P. Gallaher, et al., “Economic Benefits of the Global Positioning System (GPS),” Final Report, June 2019.
NREL Storage Futures Study
https://www.nrel.gov/analysis/storage-futures.html
Building More Cost-effective Rail Transit
https://projectdelivery.enotrans.org/
Integrated Delivery Schedule - A South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Program
VDOT SGR Bridge webpage
https://www.virginiadot.org/projects/state-of-good-repair/bridges.asp
Virginia State of the Structures and Bridges Reports
https://www.virginiadot.org/info/bridges/state-of-structures-and-bridges.asp
Virginia DOT Prioritization formula
The Golden Spike Tower
Federal Highway Administration Center for Innovative Finance Support
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ipd/project_profiles/ny_goethals.aspx
How to find out if you have lead pipes
https://apps.npr.org/find-lead-pipes-in-your-home/en/#intro
2021 ASCE Infrastructure Report Card
https://infrastructurereportcard.org/
Iowa Interstate Railroad
Iowa Interstate Railroad Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b2xrpbifCU
American Shortline and Regional Railroad Association
SubCom Undersea Fiber Optic Cable
https://www.subcom.com/#services
Washington, DC Bridge Park
https://bbardc.org/project/11th-street-bridge-park/
New Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel
MWRD’s Tunnel and Reservoir Plan
https://mwrd.org/tunnel-and-reservoir-plan
Public Safety Hazards
https://damsafety.org/public-safety-hazards
Calpine - The Geysers
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
Delaware Strategic Highway Safety Plan
https://www.deldot.gov/Programs/DSHSP/index.shtml
San Francisco County Transportation Authority
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
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
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
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
Inland waterways – I
http://www.ittsresearch.org/adobe/ITTS-presentation-WCI-inland-navigation.pdf
Inland waterways – II
Recycled Plastic Bridges
http://theinfrastructureshow.com/audio/downloads/Worlds-First-Thermoplastic-Bridge.pdf
Power Infrastructure
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.