Archive for February, 2012
Putting TRB In The Palm Of Your Hand: The Transportation Research Board’s Annual Meeting Online Portal & Research E-Newsletter
The Transportation Research Board of the National Academies (TRB) has rolled out their Annual Meeting Online Portal. In one search, this portal allows users to quickly find all available papers, visual aids, and recordings by session, presentation, author, subject area, and more. If you attended this year’s TRB meeting or are employed by a sponsoring [...]
Sustainable Transportation Planning: Tools For Creating Vibrant, Healthy, And Resilient Communities
The Great American Dream of cruising down the parkway, zipping from here to there at any time has given way to a true nightmare that is destroying the environment, costing billions and deeply impacting our personal well-being. Jeffrey Tumlin’s new book titled Sustainable Transportation Planning: Tools For Creating Vibrant, Healthy, And Resilient Communities offers easy-to-understand, clearly explained [...]
Megapolitan America: A New Vision for Understanding America’s Metropolitan Geography
In our popular imagination, America is the land of wide-open spaces. But in reality, much of it is more densely populated than Europe. Two-thirds of the U.S. population lives on less than 20% of the privately owned land. With an expected population of 400 million by 2040, America is morphing into an economic system composed [...]
