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Infrastructure asset managers and owners continuously face the challenge of improving their tasks, which depend heavily on collecting asset data, keeping an inventory, and ensuring the data is updated regularly. Reliable and robust asset data also help asset owners and managers make sound …
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Riding a bike can offer significant health benefits. It can reduce physical inactivity, a leading cause of a million deaths yearly in Europe. Cycling can also reduce air pollution and mitigate climate change. According to UCLA, stepping out of your car and shifting to biking can reduce a …
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Extreme events from climate change will continue to cause disruption and damage to road networks. Despite the vulnerability of our infrastructure networks to natural disasters and climate events, they also play a critical role in boosting our resilience to these impacts. Low-income countries and …
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Are Americans driving less, and if so, what is the implication for the future of its infrastructure? An article in For Construction shows that despite the projection of increased driving miles for Americans in 2022, the actual data shows a decrease in vehicle miles traveled (VMT), especially in …
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Three years of planning to add bike and bus lanes on Washington DC's K Street and Connecticut Avenue is at risk of going down the drain. The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) originally planned to remove the street's service lands to make room for two dedicated bus lanes in the center, …
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Private transportation is one of the significant sources of carbon emissions, and emissions are rising yearly. The use of electricity-run public transit can reduce energy consumption as well as the heat-trapping GHG emission. Car-dominated countries like the United States can reduce emissions …
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Will reducing the speed limit from 100 kilometers per hour to 80 slow traveling time that much? Just four to six minutes, says New Zealand transport expert Paul Durdin in an 81.4-kilometer windy highway in the county's famous holiday highway from Christchurch city to Akaroa. The result he finds …
In the event of road or bridge closures due to extreme events damages like earthquakes, floods, wildfires, and others, can the transport network still allow access to essential services and amenities to residents affected? When calamity hits a specific area, access to food, hospital or emergency …
When the US Senate passed the $1.2 Trillion infrastructure bill this month, supporters of the massive bill hail it a crucial step to fixing and updating the nation’s infrastructure and address social and environmental issues. According to NBC News, President Biden calls it a "historic investment …
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New Zealand’s Transport Minister and Auckland Mayor Phil Goff announced a $31 billion infrastructure package for Auckland city. The Auckland Transport Alignment Project (ATAP) 2021-31 will invest in the city’s critical transport infrastructure and services. Mayor Goff says that this is the largest …
To help achieve New Zealand's net-zero emissions target by 2050, its Ministry of Transport has announced in January 2021 that it will decarbonise its public transport bus fleet by 2025. It also targets 2035 as the year that it decarbonise entirely all public transport buses, which means that the …
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The online tool, One Network Road Classification Performance Measures Reporting Tool (ONRC PMRT), is built for the Road Efficiency Group (REG) and a result of a collaboration between several new Zealand's institutions: New Zealand's Local Government, the Transport Agency, 69 road controlling …
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