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: November 2024 – Welcome to the latest issue of The Transportist, especially to our new readers. As always you can follow on Mastodon, or RSS. By…
Elect Kamala Harris – The Transportist Editorial Board Endorsement – Ok, it’s that time of the quadrennium that we must discuss American politics. I voted abroad in the State of Minnesota for Vice President Kamala…
Book: A Web of Nets: Principles and Patterns of Connection – As a paid subscriber to the Transportist (thank you), one of the benefits is access to my next book. That would A Web of…
The City Fix
How an Urban Bioeconomy Can Promote Healthy Ecosystems and Spur Sustainable Economic Prosperity – Departing from the Amazonian city of Belém, Brazil, in a speedboat, it takes around 10 minutes to reach the shores of Combu Island. As the…
Amidst Record-breaking Fires, Will Brazil Confront Its Climate Challenges? – Brazilians are currently living in a dystopian landscape. Thick smoke, oppressive heat and eerily orange sunsets blanket both major cities and small villages. Hundreds of…
What Would Cities Look Like With 3 Degrees C of Warming vs. 1.5? Far More Hazardous and Vastly Unequal – The world recently experienced a 13-month streak of record-breaking global temperatures. And as blistering heat waves punish communities across several continents, 2024 is on track to…
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
Building More Cost-effective Rail Transit
Integrated Delivery Schedule - A South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Program
VDOT SGR Bridge webpage
Virginia State of the Structures and Bridges Reports
Virginia DOT Prioritization formula
The Golden Spike Tower
Federal Highway Administration Center for Innovative Finance Support
How to find out if you have lead pipes
2021 ASCE Infrastructure Report Card
Iowa Interstate Railroad
Iowa Interstate Railroad Video
American Shortline and Regional Railroad Association
SubCom Undersea Fiber Optic Cable
Washington, DC Bridge Park
New Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel
MWRD’s Tunnel and Reservoir Plan
Public Safety Hazards
Calpine - The Geysers
Modeling Residual Flood Risk Behind Levees
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
Earthquake Resilience for San Francisco’s Tall Buildings
Delaware Strategic Highway Safety Plan
San Francisco County Transportation Authority
Federal Highway Administration video on bridge inspection standards
Bus Rapid Transit Works: Countering the Myths, by S.L. Zimmerman and H.S. Levinson
Regional Plan Association, "How Sea Level Rise Threatens the Tri State Region."
High Rise Fires and the Choice of Building Materials
DC Water’s Environmental Impact Bonds
Elevators and building design
New York City Water Supply System
CREATE
Pennsylvania transportation funding
ASCE Report Card
Nuisance Flooding
Savannah Harbor Expansion Project
Sea level rise
St. Croix Crossing Project
Second Avenue Subway
The Eagle P3 East Rail Line
Golden Gate Bridge 75th Anniversary
Alternative Fuels
Challenging Inspections
Transportation Data
Panama Canal (I)
Panama Canal (II)
The Dulles Airport Metrorail Project
Structural Failures
New Materials
Inland waterways – I
Inland waterways – II
Recycled Plastic Bridges
Power Infrastructure
91 Express Lanes
I-580 Ramp
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New I-35W Bridge
- Cape Cod Canal and Bourne Bridge, Buzzards Bay Massachusetts: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, photographer not specified or unknown ↩
- The Oculus transportation hub, Manhattan, New York: Robert L. Peskin ↩
- Purple Line Light Rail Transit Construction, Silver Spring, Maryland: Robert L. Peskin ↩
- Water turbine being installed at Grand Coulee Dam, Columbia River, Grand Coulee, Washington, circa 1970: U.S Bureau of Reclamation Public Domain ↩