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/
Comments on the National Cities Performance Framework Dashboard - Hao Wu and I wrote the following for Foreground: New infrastructure performance measures for Australian cities questioned: The federal government has updated the National...
Access Across Australia Interview - I was interviewed about our Access Across Australia report by Jane Slack-Smith. It was a really good interview and got into the connections between...
Measuring Full Cost Accessibility by Auto
The City Fix
Closing Sub-Saharan Africa’s Electricity Access Gap: Why Cities Must Be Part of the Solution - There’s both good and bad news from the latest report tracking progress on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7, a global goal to achieve universal access to energy...
We’re Grossly Underestimating the World’s Water Access Crisis - When affordability and reliability are taken into account, we are far from universal water access. Photo by Hassan Hote/Flickr[/caption]In Cape Town, South Africa, and Chennai,...
The $6,000 Electric Vehicle: The Power of the Used Car Market to Bring Electric Vehicles to Everyone - Transportation is the fastest growing source of carbon dioxide emissions and fossil fuel demand worldwide. That makes zero-emission vehicles a prerequisite for a sustainable future. But while...
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
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.