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| | Public transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In the United States, operations of most public transit services are financially subsidized by local and state governments, who provide small amounts of matching funds to receive 80% capital grant aid from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Transportation. | | | This agency administers programs which provide funding and support services to state and local agencies which operate a wide range of public transportation services. | | | Much public opposition to new transit construction protests the impact on neighborhoods of the new economic development public transportation attracts. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_transport
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| | Public Notices - Active Citizenship |
| | A unit of local government falls into one of four categories: municipal (your city, town or township), county, public school (grades kindergarten through twelve and public universities, colleges and technical schools) and public service (agencies dedicated to providing one or more local services such as public transportation, public recreation, water, sewage treatment and insect control). | | | Government agencies and their committees -- from the legislature to county governing bodies to your municipal and school governing bodies -- must meet in open, public session when they conduct certain business or take official action. | | | Use public notices to illustrate social studies, civics or history units on a multitude of subjects, for example, the electoral system, the interdependence of citizens in a self-governing democracy, government regulation of private enterprise, public policy formation and change, and the separation of powers among co-equal branches of government. |
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http://www.nhpublicnotices.com/activecitizenship.asp
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| | public transport: Information From Answers.com |
| | Mass transit refers to municipal or regional public shared transportation, such as buses, streetcars, and ferries, open to all on a nonreserved basis. | | | In the United States, operations of most public transit services are financially subsidized by local and state governments, who provide small amounts of matching funds to receive 80% capital grant aid from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Transportation. | | | This agency administers programs which provide funding and support services to state and local agencies which operate a wide range of public transportation services. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/public-transport
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| | Converge Related Links |
| | Transportation Research Board Committee on Public Transportation Planning and Development | | | Transportation Research Board Committee on Public Involvement in Transportation | | | Transportation Research Board Task Force for Transportation Needs of National Parks and Public Lands |
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http://www.converge.ncsu.edu/weblinks/related_links.asp?grp=All
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| | PUBLIC OPINION SURVEYS |
| | During preparation of Oregon's transportation plan, public opinion surveys were made available in the policy element draft and at public meetings. | | | A public opinion survey is sometimes difficult to undertake for some stakeholder groups for certain topics. | | | They can identify concerns before a public vote is scheduled, as was done in the Seattle area. |
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http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/reports/pittd/surveys.htm
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| | Urban Mass Transportation Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The unions feared that public entities would take over failing privately held transportation companies and cease to recognize the union (the National Labor Relations Act does not apply to public employers). | | | The Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 (PL 88-365, codified in Chapter 53 of Title 49 of the U.S. Code) provided $375 million for large-scale urban public or private rail projects in the form of matching funds to cities and states. | | | The Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1970 (PL 91-453) authorized an additional $12 billion of the same type of matching funds. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Mass_Transportation_Act
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| | Online TDM Encyclopedia - Nonmotorized Transport Planning |
| | Litman (1998) describes how people who drive less than average overpay their share of local transportation expenditures, since their local taxes fund roadway expenses that are primarily needed for the sake of automobile traffic, so increased funding for nonmotorized transportation is often justified for the sake of horizontal equity. | | | Nonmotorized transportation provides a number of benefits and costs (for more information see Litman, 2005 and the Bicyclepedia at www.bicyclinginfo.org/bikecost). | | | Improving conditions for nonmotorized travel often require public resources (money and land devoted to sidewalks, paths and bikelanes), the public cost per trip is usually less than that of automobile travel (money and land devoted to roads and parking facilities), so such improvements can be considered to increase horizontal equity. |
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| | Slow Travel Italy - Venice Transportation, airport to the city, boat tickets and passes, Venice Card |
| | Public transportation prices in Venice have become quite high, here is the most recent price list, as of June 2004. | | | BLUE CARD (unlimited public transportation with or without the Alilaguna boat from and to the airport plus free access to public bathrooms). | | | ORANGE CARD (unlimited public transportation with or without the Alilaguna boat from and to the airport plus free access to public bathrooms and free or discounted price to some museums). |
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http://www.slowtrav.com/italy/venice/dm_transportation.htm
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| | Public Infrastructure Management Course |
| | Infrastructure systems: Streets, highways, and sidewalks; public transportation; street lighting and traffic control systems; potable water supply; wastewater and drainage, parks, recreation facilities, and public open spaces; communications systems; public buildings; solid waste handling and disposal; and others. | | | Objective: The objective of this course is to convey the process of managing public infrastructure in all its complexity in sufficient detail to allow the student to gain a realistic grasp of contemporary public infrastructure management policies and practices. | | | Recent changes in federal transportation planning requirements including the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, wastewater treatment, solid waste, and others. |
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| | Statement of Jennifer L. Dorn, Federal Transit Administrator, Before the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, April 17, 2002 |
| | Many leaders now realize that public transportation must diversify its product line and offer services that are more tailored to the needs of the traveling public. | | | In fact, the total capital investment in public transportation, including State, local and Federal funds, has increased by nearly 90 percent over the last ten years (1991 to 2000). | | | In a recent survey, the American Public Transportation Association found that 20 percent of transit riders would not have made their current trip without transit, and nearly 70 percent did not have access to a car at the time the trip was made. |
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| | Americans with Disabilities Act 27, 37 and 38 |
| | "Demand responsive system" means any system of transporting individuals, including the provision of designated public transportation service by public entities and the provision of transportation service by private entities, including but not limited to specified public transportation service, which is not a fixed route system. | | | (b) Fixed-route transportation systems operated by public airport operators between the airport and a limited number of destinations in the area it serves are subject to the provisions of this Part for commuter bus systems operated by public entities. | | | (a) Transportation services operated by private institutions of higher education are subject to the provisions of this Part governing private entities not primarily engaged in the business of transporting people. |
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http://www.handinet.org/ada/adareg37.htm
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| | Infrastructure Bibliography |
| | Public infrastructure spending and an analysis of the President's proposals for infrastructure spending from 1996 to 2000. | | | The effects of public infrastructure and RandD capital on the cost structure and performance of U.S. manufacturing industries. | | | Updating trends in public infrastructure spending and analyzing the President's proposals for infrastructure spending from 1994 to 1998. |
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http://iti.acns.nwu.edu/clear/infr/infr_bib.html
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| | Urban Mass Transportation Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The unions feared that public entities would take over failing privately held transportation companies and cease to recognize the union (the National Labor Relations Act does not apply to public employers). | | | The Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 (PL 88-365, codified in Chapter 53 of Title 49 of the U.S. Code) provided $375 million for large-scale urban public or private rail projects in the form of matching funds to cities and states. | | | The Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1970 (PL 91-453) authorized an additional $12 billion of the same type of matching funds. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Mass_Transportation_Act
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| | Metro: Transportation Planning |
| | Working with the public, other jurisdictions and agency partners, Metro develops high-priority projects identified in the Regional Transportation Plan. | | | The growth concept was adopted in the Region 2040 planning and public involvement process in December 1995. | | | Regional TDM policies direct planning and support funding for regional bicycle, pedestrian and public transit systems. |
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http://www.metro-region.org/pssp.cfm?progservID=2
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| | Rural Transportation - Planning - FHWA |
| | Rural Transportation Toolbox - A project of the 1998 partnership between the United States Department of Agriculture and the United States Department of Transportation, this toolbox was designed to assist public and private stakeholders in planning, developing, and improving rural areas and small communities, especially through transportation and related projects. | | | Rural Transportation Consultation Processes - The National Academy of Public Administration, under contract to FHWA, studied the effectiveness of state consultations with local officials that occur during transportation planning and programs. | | | Influence of Transportation Infrastructure on Land Use - (PDF format 146 KB) This document describes the development decision-making process from the private sector perspective, as well as the role that local and regional government entities play in the process. |
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| | Welcome to the STPP Transportation Action Network |
| | The Surface Transportation Policy Project, a national non-profit advocacy organization founded in 1991, is a diverse, nationwide coalition working to ensure safer communities and smarter transportation choices that enhance the economy, improve public health, promote social equity, and protect the environment. | | | This means raising commitments to public transportation, walking and bicycling and doing a better job of maintaining and operating systems already in place. | | | With enactment of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) in August, Congress and the Administration finally agreed on a multi-year renewal of the nations surface transportation law, which had previously expired September 30, 2003. |
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| | Online TDM Encyclopedia - Public Transit Improvements |
| | Transit improvements often require public subsidies, but these are often comparable or smaller than subsidies for automobile travel when all costs are considered (Transportation Costs). | | | Public transit can be used by anyone who pays the fare, although any particular transit service benefits some people more than others. | | | They sometimes require public support for additional funding. |
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| | Transportation Planning |
| | This 20-year plan of regional transportation needs, goals, and projects guides public policy decisions regarding transportation expenditures and financing. | | | The California Transportation Development Act (TDA), which provides two major sources of funding for public transportation, the Local Transportation Fund (LTF) and the State Transit Assistance (STA) fund, requires an annual assessment of regional transit needs prior to making any allocation of TDA funds for streets and roads projects. | | | SBCAG is working on a Regional Bikeway Plan that meets the requirements of the California Bicycle Transportation Act as well as encourages implementation of a consistent set of bikeway policies and standards region-wide. |
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| | North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare. Biennial Report of the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, December 1, 1920 to June 30, 1922 |
| | This includes the salaries of superintendents of public welfare, probation and school attendance officers, office help, office supplies, transportation, etc. In comparison with the work that is done and the various and serious responsibilities that are placed on the department of public welfare, this is an entirely inadequate sum to finance the work properly. | | | Additional help should be given superintendents of public welfare in order that the law may be thoroughly and efficiently enforced, and it is but fair that this help should be provided through State funds that will supplement the funds appropriated by the counties. | | | Under the present system the superintendent of public welfare is appointed and paid by the joint boards of education and county commissioners. |
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| | The Transportation Planning Capacity Building Program |
| | The final rule requires States to document their consultation process with non-metropolitan local officials that provides for their participation in statewide transportation planning and programming and that is separate and discrete from the public involvement process. | | | It provides government officials, planning board members, transportation service providers, and the public at large with an overview of transportation planning in metropolitan settings. | | | This document supplements publication FHWA-HEP-05-053 as an executive summary of the full module by providing a general framework for developing a Long Range Transportation Plan. |
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| | Online TDM Encyclopedia - Funding Options |
| | There is sometimes a choice between public or private ownership of transportation facilities and services, which affect their funding and other planning factors. | | | Public ownership often allows cheaper financing through public bonds, and tends to increase public accountability and integration with other planning decisions, leading to facilities and services that better support overall community objectives. | | | The Public Works Special Districts Office produces an annual report which provides a background of the CFD, current status of land uses within the district, maximum special taxes for each CFD parcel, and the calculation of that fiscal year’s special tax levy. |
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| | ada.txt |
| | (2) Service area.--The regulations issued under this section shall require the provision of paratransit and special transportation services required under this section in the service area of each public entity which operates a fixed route system, other than any portion of the service area in which the public entity solely provides commuter bus service. | | | (5) Public school transportation.--The term "public school transportation" means transportation by schoolbus vehicles of schoolchildren, personnel, and equipment to and from a public elementary or secondary school and school-related activities. | | | Public transportation programs and activities in existing facilities and one car per train rule. |
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| | Public Works Homepage |
| | With the goal of streamlining City services and greater efficiency, the Deputy Director of Public Works position has been consolidated with the current Assistant City Manager responsible for the Office of Transportation. | | | The Office of Transportation is now part of the Department of Public Works. | | | Developing and offering efficient, cost effective services in partnership with our citizens will help us achieve our vision to make Berkeley a leading city in the country by being an outstanding provider of Public Works Services. |
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| | HistoryLink Essay: Washington State Taxation -- A Snapshot History |
| | In 2000, two Eyman-sponsored initiatives made the general election ballot: I-722, which would cap property taxes at 1 percent, and I-745, an attack on public transit that would require 90 percent of all transportation funding to be earmarked for roads. | | | The farmer-labor coalition, forged in early support for Prohibition, public utilities, and transportation regulation, started to fragment as rural and urban interests focused on their own special needs. | | | To finance the Kingdome, the county would receive 2 percent of state sales tax on lodging, the first time -- but not the last -- that a hotel-motel tax would be adopted to bankroll a quasi-public sports facility. |
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| | Iowa Office of Public Transit |
| | The Federal Public Transportation Act of 1978 (Section III of the Surface Transportation Act of 1978) established a formula program providing funding to states for support of planning, capital and operating needs of transit programs in small towns and rural areas. | | | In 1998 Congress passed the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, which for the first time guaranteed multi-year funding levels for public transit. | | | The Federal Public Transportation Act of 1982 (Section III of the Surface Transportation Act of 1982) for the first time dedicated a penny of the federal motor fuel tax to public transit capital support. |
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| | Trends in Public Infrastructure Spending |
| | All figures in the section "Inflation-Adjusted Trends in Public Spending and Proposed Federal Spending for Infrastructure" are in 1997 dollars. | | | Infrastructure outlays reached $11 billion in 1956; of those expenditures, roughly 41 percent went to highways, 10 percent to aviation, and 48 percent to water transportation and resources (see Table A-8 in the appendix). | | | The public facilities, resources, and services known as infrastructure are vital to the nation's production and distribution of private economic output as well as to its citizens' overall quality of life. |
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| | Sustainable Transportation: The Canadian Context SDinfo |
| | This incomplete state of information on transportation activities, together with the impacts and associated costs of these activities, the costs and implications of potential policy measures, and the range of private- and public-sector stakeholders involved result in an intricate policy context for the sector's sustainability. | | | The Metropolitan Transportation Agency, created by the province of Quebec in 1996, is a provincial agency that coordinates the planning and funding of public transportation in the Montreal region. | | | Transportation demand is the measure of all transportation-related expenditures by households, businesses, and governments on transportation goods and services used in the movement of people and freight. |
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| | Urban Mass Transportation Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The unions feared that public entities would take over failing privately held transportation companies and cease to recognize the union (the National Labor Relations Act does not apply to public employers). | | | The Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 (PL 88-365, codified in Chapter 53 of Title 49 of the U.S. Code) provided $375 million for large-scale urban public or private rail projects in the form of matching funds to cities and states. | | | The Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1970 (PL 91-453) authorized an additional $12 billion of the same type of matching funds. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Mass_Transportation_Act
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| | Urban Transportation Planning Links |
| | In their Driven to Spend report, the Surface Transportation Policy Project calculated what households in different metropolitan areas spend each year on transportation and found a significant correlation between degree of sprawl and spending levels. | | | The Surface Transportation Policy Project published a companion to the TTI study on congestion, called "Easing the Burden," that shows that the metropolitan areast that have invested the most in roads have seen little impact on congestion. | | | The Victoria Policy Insitute published a widely-cited study on the full costs of transportation and promotes efficiency, equity and clarity in transportation planning. |
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| | Statements from Hearings, 107th Congress |
| | The full Committee on Environment and Public Works met to receive testimony on S. 1586, a bill to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to authorize the carrying of firearms by employees of licensees, and for other purposes, and S. | | | Joint committee hearing between the Committee on Environment and Public Works and the Senate Judiciary Committee. | | | The full Committee on Environment and Public Works conducted a hearing to receive testimony on Sections 2015, 2016, 2107(a) and (b), 2018 and 2019 of S. 225, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003. |
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