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Urban Houston Framework: A Case Study for the H-GAC Regional Plan for Sustainable Development, Houston, 2013
The intent fo the Urban Houston Framework is to help integrate land use and transportation planning by coordinatiing land developemtn standards with new transit investments, and by providng affordable housing in dense areas around new transit lines.
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Credit: Memphis Area Transit Authority
Urban Transit Agency to Launch Microtransit Service, Memphis, TN, 2021
MATA received a Federal Transit Administration Integrated Mobility Innovation grant to pilot a microtransit service.
Customers can request point-to-point rides across Boxwood, Westwood, and Whitehaven neighborhoods in southwest Memphis.
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Urbanism Next report: Autonomous Vehicles in the Pacific Northwest, Portland, OR, 2018
In August 2018, the University of Oregon's Urbanism Next Center released a report exploring the potential deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in Portland, Seattle and Vancouver. This report, AVs in the Pacific Northwest: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions ...
UNext Report: Perfecting Policy with Pilots, 2020
Urbanism Next report: New Mobility and AV Urban Delivery Pilot Project Assessment, 2020
In Spring 2020, the University of Oregon's Urbanism Next Center released a report titled "Perfecting Pilots with Policy: New Mobility and AV Urban Delivery Pilot Project Assessment". This report aimed to determine the lessons learned, emerging trends ...
Urbanism Next report: New Mobility in the Right-of-Way, 2019
In March 2019, the University of Oregon's Urbanism Next Center released a report that highlights global efforts to improve curb management in response to the changing demand for public right-of-way access. It explores ways cities can prepare for the deployment ...
Credit: Washington, DC DFHV
US Dept of Labor information brief on AVs as way to facilitate employment for people with disabilities, 2019
Through 2018, the US Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) and the USDOT co-hosted information-gathering sessions to facilitate discussion regarding how autonomous vehicles (AVs) could increase employment opportunities for ...
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US Dept of Labor information-gathering session on AVs as way to facilitate employment for people with disabilities, 2018
In October 2018, the US Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) and the USDOT co-hosted an information-gathering session to facilitate discussion among the disability community regarding AV policy, and particularly how AVs ...
US Regulations Regarding Contracting ADA-compliant Vehicles for Transit, 2007
Excerpted from code:
Sec. 37.77 Purchase or lease of new non-rail vehicles by public entities operating a demand responsive system for the general public.
(a) Except as provided in this section, a public entity operating a demand responsive system for ...
Usage-based Automobile Insurance, Washington, 2012
On March 5, 2012 the State Legislature passed a bill aimed at eliminating existing regulatory barriers to offering usage-based automobile insurance policies. It also authorized the insurance commissioner to approve the offering of such policies. [1] Usage-based ...
USDOT Announces Proposed Rule to Streamline Private Sector Involvement in Transit Projects, 2017
The Federal Transit Agency (FTA) announced on July 31, 2017 revised Private Investment Project Procedures (PIPP) for public transportation capital projects that would also expand to funding and finance for all stages of transportation projects from planning ...