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/

Equilibrium or Imbalance? Rail Transit and Land Use Mix in Station Areas - Recently published: Wang, Yuning, Lu, D, and Levinson, D. (2022) Equilibrium or Imbalance? Rail Transit and Land Use Mix in Station Areas. Transportation. [doi] Abstract Although...

Dr. Bahman Lahoorpoor - Bahman...

Transportist: August 2022 - August 1 is of course best known in the transport community as TRB submission day. I hope everyone got their Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting...

The City Fix

https://thecityfix.com/

How Prepared Are US Cities to Implement the Justice40 Initiative? - As hubs of talent and innovation, American cities are uniquely positioned to fight climate change and improve the health, economy and well-being of their residents....

4 Quick and Sustainable Solutions to High Gas Prices in the US - President Biden suggested that the United States implement a Federal Gas Tax holiday to help consumers weather historically high gas prices. Gas prices doubled in...

Electric School Buses Win Big in US State Legislative Sessions - Electric school buses are experiencing rapid growth in the United States, with a nearly 10-fold increase in commitments by school districts and fleet operators in the past...

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.
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