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Senate Transportation Bill Is That Works
House and Senate leaders are in a conference committee this week negotiating over a federal transportation bill that is necessary to continue funding for highway and other transportation projects and the jobs that depend on them. But in truth,...
Transportation Sector Wrap
While the S&P 500 grew 1.4%, the Transportation sector (IYT) showed little movement during trading today.
As a proxy for the sector, the ETF tracked closer to the overall market today than over the past month. Entering today’s...
Honda Recycle By Extracting Rare Earth Metals
Tokyo: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and the Japan Metals and Chemicals Co., Ltd. have jointly announced the establishment of the world’s first process to extract rare earth metals from various used parts in Honda products.
The new operation will...
Young Americans Are Driving Dramatically Less – Will It Continue?
Americans under 40 are driving dramatically less, according to data from the National Household Travel Survey. The question is: Is car culture in America waning generationally or is this a temporary phenomenon linked to the recession?
The recession...
Public Transportation Use on the Rise Across America
In 2011, Americans took a whopping 10.4 billion trips on various means of public transportation. According to an update from the American Public Transportation Association this week, that’s an increase of 2.3 percent from the year before....
Transportation Tops Armstrong Seniors’ Worries
Reliable transportation, household expenses, medical costs, health, safety, loneliness — and pie — are among the biggest concerns facing older adults in Armstrong County.
That’s what the county’s senior citizens are telling Armstrong...
Intelligent Transport Solutions can Transform Cities
The state of urban transport in a city largely decides its livability index.
Most metropolitan cities are reduced to urban nightmares, thanks to their flawed urban transport model. Recently, I attended a lecture by Mark Gorton at Ahmedabad Management...
Budget Plan: Big Dollars for Transportation
Congress will take center stage for the next couple of weeks as the spotlight recedes from the presidential primary process. The opening act is a tragedy about a party drifting away from its small government roots. Instead of using yet another-trillion...
Transportation Bill Would Streamline Environmental Review: Sponsors Say
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Feb. 2 will mark up a transportation reauthorization bill that Republican sponsors say will streamline the environmental review process for new construction projects.
The American Energy...
