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Checking in with Columbus, Ohio, Winner of the 2016 Smart City Challenge: NMA E-Newsletter #608

September 6, 2020 • Connected Cars, Connected Vehicles, DRIVERLESS CARS, Electric Vehicle, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, NEWSLETTER, Parking, Technology

In 2016, Columbus, OH, beat out 77 other US large and small cities to win the coveted $40 million US Department of Transportation Smart City Challenge. As the state capital and the largest city in Ohio, Columbus has the distinction of being the largest US metropolis (2018 population 892,533) not to have a subway or […]

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Compunction to Shame needs to Stop: NMA E-Newsletter #593

May 24, 2020 • Bicycle, Bicyclist, Driver's License, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, MASS TRANSIT, NEWSLETTER, NMA, Parking, PEDESTRIAN, VISION ZERO

From the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, anti-car groups have shamed, cajoled, and humiliated city officials to open streets and relegate vehicular traffic to the role of unwanted guests. These various programs, called Active Streets, Open Streets, Safe Streets, or Slow Streets, have popped up in nearly every major city in the country. Not only […]

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Transportation Engineers Debate Vision Zero, Part 2: NMA E-Newsletter #564

November 3, 2019 • Bicycle, Bicyclist, Complete Streets, Congestion Pricing, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, ITE, LEGISLATION, MASS TRANSIT, NEWSLETTER, Parking, PEDESTRIAN, SAFETY, Scooter, TOLL, VISION ZERO

Last week in Part 1, we shared some posts made on the Institute of Transportation Engineers Member Forum that started a debate about the efficacy of the Vision Zero goals. The discussion in that thread — “A ‘War on Cars’? Let there be Peace!” — was too varied and interesting to fit into the contents […]

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PPP Myth Busters: NMA E-Newsletter #375

March 20, 2016 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER, NEWSLETTER, NMA BLOG, Parking, PPP, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, SPEED LIMIT, TOLL, TOLL ROAD, TOLLING

Back in 2012 Texas State Highway 130, a 41-mile stretch of toll road between Austin and San Antonio, made headlines for posting the highest speed limit in the country—a whopping 85 mph. Today, SH 130 is making headlines for a different reason. The company that runs it just declared bankruptcy. Even with the high speed […]

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The Consequences of Intolerance: NMA E-Newsletter #373

March 6, 2016 • CALIFORNIA, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, NEWSLETTER, Parking, SAFETY, VISION ZERO

Ecosystem: A system, or a group of interconnected elements, formed by the     interaction of a community of organisms with their environment What is our transportation network of streets and highways if not an ecosystem? Every day it is teeming with a multitude of users—that sounds a little better than “organisms”—who serve communities in a […]

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