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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/

The City Fix

People Move to Cities for Better Jobs and Opportunities. Impossible Commutes Are Getting in the Way - Emmanuel leaves his home at 5 a.m. every morning with his two daughters. They take a mini-bus, or “tro-tro,” from their house in Awoshie, a...

Insights from Uganda on Why Solar Street Lights Make Sense - Street lighting is important. It allows informal vendors and traders to operate for longer hours and improves road and public safety. It also makes streets feel safer and...

Creating a Robust Electric Mobility Ecosystem in India: 6 Takeaways from Connect Karo 2019 - At Connect Karo 2019, WRI India’s seventh annual conference on sustainable urban development in India, experts across sectors agreed on one big thing: the future...

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

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

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