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Active Transportation Safety Virtual Peer Exchange (April 2021) In April 2021, AASHTO’s Center for Environmental Excellence — in partnership with the Committee on Safety, the Council on Active Transportation, and the Federal Highway Administration — hosted a three-day peer exchange on active transportation safety.
Health and Transportation. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, transportation agencies play an important role in public health by encouraging healthy community design, promoting opportunities for physical activity by supporting active transportation infrastructure, reducing human exposure to air pollution, reducing injuries associated with motor vehicle crashes, and ensuring ...
Measurements included such items as transit investment, flex spending on active transportation, number of EV charging ports per 1,000 people, and whether states compensate citizens for participating in the project planning process. The report also cited examples of how states are advancing environmental and equity causes:
I’m proud of our state for creating a bold plan to create safer and more accessible active transportation connections for all Washingtonians.” WSDOT completed its plan with a two-part process, collecting public comment on part one in May 2021 and on its two final chapters in late fall 2021.
the impact of such transport on affected communities; and; waste disposal requirements and costs. Such considerations would be recognized in project environmental documents and may affect project decisions. Waste transport and disposal requirements would, at some point in the project, entail coordination with regulatory agencies.
This research focuses on proposing and testing a framework that integrates a freight transport modeler and a vehicle emission simulator to evaluate the emission of heavy duty trucks within the logistic network by studying operational behaviors.
Developing a consistent set of comprehensive and objective energy and GHG intensity estimates will require a substantial research effort. This research should survey all modes, but the primary focus should be on Inter-City Passenger and Inter- and Intra-City Freight Transport Energy and GHG Intensities.
Active Transportation In a unique partnership, the Georgia Department of Transportation is allowing use of public land along a major highway in Atlanta to be converted to a bustling green space that promotes walking, biking, and recreation.
is affordable, operates efficiently, offers choice of transport mode, and supports a vibrant economy; and limits emissions and waste within the planet’s ability to absorb them, minimizes consumption of non-renewable resources, limits consumption of renewable resources to the sustainable yield level, reuses and recycles its components, and ...
Issues covered in this handbook include: development and implementation of a stormwater management program; Clean Water Act (CWA) and the NPDES program; state and local stormwater regulations; conducting a Program Effectiveness Assessment (PEA); developing a stormwater management plan (SWMP); public education and outreach; construction site stormwater compliance; integrating Best Management ...