The St. Louis region enjoys access to four modes of transportation - air, rail, road, and water. The availability of so many options provides the community with easy travel around the region, along with some of the lowest shipping costs in the country. Several transportation initiatives are taking place throughout the region to improve traffic safe
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Located in Minnesota's Lakes Region, Perham is a small city of 2,900 residents that serves as a regional economic center. Approximately 3,000 jobs comprise the manufacturing and healthcare sectors, which include several large businesses and a new hospital at the intersection of U.S. Highway 10 and County Highway 34 on the outskirts of town. Perham
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At roughly 3.5 miles, Broadway is the only road running the entire length of Somerville, Massachusetts. In the East Somerville neighborhood, the four-lane collector road is out of scale with the predominantly residential one–half mile between Garfield Avenue and the Boston city line. Closely spaced duplexes and triple-deckers intermingle with singl
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In response to the tremendous growth in the areas of energy, tourism, recreational development, infrastructure and municipal assistance, the Community Development Department within the North Central Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission has been charged with developing integrated strategies and policies for community development
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Urban sprawl has led the Atlanta region to become one of the least dense metropolitan areas in the country; residents tend to have one of the longest average daily work commutes in the nation. As a result of significant growth over the last 25 years, Atlanta's roadway network has become overburdened and congested. Land use and travel patterns have
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This project produced several principles that help develop livable communities. These principles include: promoting mixed-used communities; implementing minimum lot size and frontage requirements that have a direct impact on transportation; building schools, day care centers and recreation areas near neighborhoods; planning large retail activities
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Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO) help urban areas develop, analyze, and implement shared regional transportation visions and goals through the metropolitan transportation planning process. These goals, expressed in long range transportation plans (LRTPs), often incorporate livability, which is about tying the quality and location of transp
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In Kentucky's Bluegrass Region lies a scenic landscape renowned throughout the Nation for its beauty. A small two-lane road, locally known as Paris Pike, it winds through 13.5 miles of lush, green, tree-lined roadways and horse farms that connect the town of Paris and the city of Lexington. Paris Pike rolls through a 10,000-acre district that is el
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Washington State Department of Transportation's (WSDOT) provides an extensive website supplying travelers with travel information in the area. In effort to decrease congestion, secondary accidents, and to increase the overall livability of Seattle, travelers can log onto http://www.wsdot.com/traffic/ and be tuned in to up-to-date information on roa
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Transportation system management and operations (M&O) coordinates systems to make them more efficient, more convenient, more reliable, safer, and easier to use. M&O strategies make systems work better, allowing us to do more with less - less congestion, less money, less fuel, and less frustration. They support livability by increasing travel choice
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Communities that make it safe and easy to get around by walking, bicycling, and taking transit can generate a number of health benefits, such as reduced obesity; reduced cases of asthma/heart disease/cancer; increased safety, and improved access to schools, parks, and recreation and community facilities.
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Many of the baby boomer generation and those who came later may have never heard of the Lincoln Highway unless they have had occasion to travel it. However, it was once America's most famous transcontinental highway reaching from New York to California.
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In the 1964 presidential campaign, President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated his Republican rival, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, in a landslide victory. From the perspective of the 21st century, historians find many intriguing aspects of this pivotal election and how it altered the political landscape and set changes in motion that shaped our worl
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This article discusses four periods during which the Federal-aid highway program was under attack: Between the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916 and the Federal Highway Act of 1921,the highway community and Federal and State officials debated whether the Federal Government should build the roads the Nation needed. In the 1920s, the program was under pre
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Source: Provided by ITS DataHub (its.dot.gov/data) through the National Transportation Library.This zip file contains files of data to support FHWA-JPO-16-370, Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation (AMS) Testbed Development and Evaluation to Support Dynamic Mobility Applications (DMA) and Active Transportation and Demand Management (ATDM) Programs - S
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Extreme weather events, including heat, drought, storms, and flooding, are already affecting transportation systems and infrastructure, and these impacts are expected to be more frequent and significant in the future. FHWA Order 5520, Transportation System Preparedness and Resilience to Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events, states that it is F
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