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Many people would undoubtedly like to forget the dark days of Superstorm Sandy. READ ARTICLE

You wouldn’t think it, but there is a certain amount of controversy surrounding the question of what to do with all this natural gas. READ ARTICLE

A new report about Americans and their cars says the driving boom is over. It calculates that the average number of miles driven in the United States has been declining annually for the past several years and will keep dropping.
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You know how, sometimes, you'll bring your luxury car to the dealer and they over-charge you for the brakes without really fixing the problem in the first place? Of course you do.
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Cars that "talk" to each other to avoid crashes or traffic jams, like those being tested here, will save lives but the cost of the systems will determine consumers' acceptance of such technology, the U.S. transportation secretary said on Tuesday.
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Europe isn’t the only region of the world undertaking austerity measures, they are underway stateside as well.
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Here in the design world the ENR Top 500 Design Firm Survey is a perennial scorekeeper in the industry, and we always look forward to it and read it with pleasure. READ ARTICLE

Last month, President Barack Obama unveiled a $3.77 trillion fiscal-year 2014 budget proposal that includes $77 billion for the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), a 6 percent increase compared with FY2012 enacted levels.
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Competing bills in the House and Senate have been at the center of a debate over heavier trucks moving up and down US highways. READ ARTICLE

A 70-mph speed limit in Illinois would make driving more dangerous, according to the Illinois Department of Transportation.
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This covers vehicle miles traveled (VMT) per capita and though graphed out this way it looks like a modest decline, it’s big news in transportation, particularly since most planning policies at most levels of governance – city, county, state, Federal, MPOs, COGs – have incorporated a steadily rising curve.
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It is unquestionably true that Americans are driving less today than we did just a few years ago. Sometime around 2004, our addiction to driving – expressed on a graph in the decades-long steep expansion of “vehicle miles traveled” – took a turn in the opposite direction.
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Most of the great trails in American history — the Oregon, the Santa Fe, The Trail of Tears, even the route followed by Lewis and Clark — have one thing in common: Missouri.
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State senators stalled on an effort to put a sales tax for transportation projects on the Missouri ballot, but the bill sponsor is still optimistic the measure will be voted on before the legislative session ends in a few days.
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Less than 1 percent of U.S. companies export goods and services, according to the Department of Commerce, and President Obama has pushed to double exports by 2015. READ ARTICLE

"We can’t depend on the old ways of doing things," says Harry Barley, the executive director of Central Florida’s regional transportation planning agency Metroplan Orlando.
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The Port of Los Angeles has awarded Ports America the contract to provide operation, management and maintenance of the Port of Los Angeles Cruise Terminal at Berth 90-43 in San Pedro, Calif., known as the World Cruise Center.
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Import volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to increase 3.3 percent in May over the same month last year but growth could trickle to a standstill by the end of the summer, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released Tuesday by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates.
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The Pentagon’s civilian workforce learned just how extensive its "sequester"-related furloughs would be on Tuesday, with the announcement by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel that 800,000 employees would be forced to take unpaid leave.
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One of the new developments that we have to keep in mind is that the devaluation of the yen could have a far more significant impact than we believe it could. READ ARTICLE

What these minor holidays lack, the thing that would otherwise catapult them into the big leagues, is a tree.
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One of the things that happens in a recession is that people get focused on wringing every little bit of efficiency out of a system or business. READ ARTICLE

On April 28, TranSystems reached the safety milestone of 365 days without a lost-time injury. READ ARTICLE

What’s moving the matrix? READ ARTICLE

What's moving the matrix? Jobs and Purchasing Power READ ARTICLE

That being the name of a long ago Jim Croce song about a stock car racer, Rapid Roy. Quick hits on the transportation economy and the many data that impact it is what we intend them to be. READ ARTICLE

The topic arises as several innovative proposals are before some state legislatures to draw upon sales or other taxes to meet transportation needs….in other words taxes outside the traditional state gasoline tax.
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