Sentences with phrase «transportation policy with»

At the other end of the spectrum, a transportation policy with rigid fuel - economy requirements is the most expensive policy, costing more than $ 1 trillion in 2006 dollars, with health benefits recouping only a quarter of those costs.

Lee Schipper, who died last week after losing a battle with pancreatic cancer, was an unsung hero in efforts to underpin energy and transportation policies with data and to foster cleaner, smarter transportation systems in fast - growing cities around the world.

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The Department of Transportation, which held discussions in 2016 with mental and physical disability rights groups about which animals should be allowed in airplane cabins, said it will monitor Delta's policy to make sure it is in line with the rights of passengers with disabilities who travel with service animals.

They coordinate transportation, storage, or distribution activities in accordance with organizational policies and applicable government laws or regulations.

Emily Castor, director of transportation policy at Lyft, said in an interview the company had «a pipeline of dozens of public transit agencies» that are discussing partnerships with the ride service.

«This policy intends to strike the careful balance between the goal of transportation availability with community expectations of affordability during disasters,» Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said in the release.

Ian Bruce, science and policy manager at the David Suzuki Foundation added, «With a million more people moving to the Lower Mainland, investing in a better transit and transportation network is one of the most crucial decisions the region can make to build healthier communities and improve quality of life.

In addition, Shippers are required to adhere and comply with Chit Chats Express's Battery Transportation Policy.

Mr. Laurier's record of governance includes liberalizing immigration policy to populate the country particularly in the new western provinces, supporting the construction of transportation infrastructure to bolster economic development and export growth, steadily reducing tariff rates to provide Canada with a tax advantage relative to the United States, and pursuing free trade and market access for Canadian goods and services.

The Families Flying Together Act would require the U.S. Department of Transportation to direct each carrier to «establish a policy to ensure, to the extent practicable, that a family that purchases tickets for a flight with that air carrier is seated together during that flight; and (2) make the policy... available to the public on an appropriate Internet Web site of the air carrier.»

At 9 a.m., the NYC Council's Progressive Caucus advocates for bike safety and and infrastructure, and discusses transportation priorities in a new policy platform, «Resistance & Progress: 18 Progressive Policies for 2018,» with a press conference and rally co-hosted with Transportation Alternatives, City Hall stetransportation priorities in a new policy platform, «Resistance & Progress: 18 Progressive Policies for 2018,» with a press conference and rally co-hosted with Transportation Alternatives, City Hall steTransportation Alternatives, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Madison is currently the Vice President and Director of Transportation Policy at STV, Inc., a consulting firm that deals with infrastructure projects and construction management.

It's far from a done deal — in February, Crain's suggested that it could «be stuck in neutral» — but it's gaining steam, with high - profile supporters such as Uber, the Partnership for New York City, and Transportation Alternatives joining the effort to get the policy passed.

The Commission of our Union, together with all the other organs, be they policy or advisory, deserve our commendation for the dedication and professionalism with which they have mobilised the facilities placed at our disposal throughout the period of the 28th Ordinary Session of the Assembly, including the working documents and the transportation, interpretation and protocol services.

At 6 p.m., the Century Foundation holds «Bridging the Divide: Ray LaHood on Bipartisanship & Transportation Policy» — an interview - style discussion with NYC Department of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg and former US Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, One Whitehall St., Manhattan.

Transportation and infrastructure were also at the top of the agenda, with all three presumptive candidates pushing for a more aggressive policy.

A commission tasked with studying Wisconsin's transportation finance and policy issues finally has its members.

An education activist in New York for years, Ms. Nixon has also been studying up on other policy areas, including transportation, according to people familiar with her activities.

«We are already struggling with the number of cars we have in the streets of our cities; congestion, air pollution, road safety issues, health impacts from people driving all the time,» said Luc Nadal, technical director for urban development at the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP).

The drive for energy conservation coupled with the recession has the U.S. switching policy tracks with its push to develop a high - speed rail transportation network.

They come up with «clean energy» and «clean transportation» policies where emissions are reduced by 63 % and 75 %, respectively, compared to a

More specifically, researchers led by the University of Idaho's Tara Hudiburg merged the DayCent ecological model with another, BEPAM, originally designed to study environmental and economic impacts of proposed biofuel policies, forming a combined model that simultaneously accounts for market forces, land use, transportation costs, and a variety of other factors.

A sustainable city should have clear policies and comprehensive sanitation, waste collection and treatment, water management, with the collection, treatment, reuse and economy; transportation systems that favor mass transit quality and safety; actions that preserve and expand green areas and use of clean and renewable energy, and finally, public administration transparent and shared with civil society organizations.

Countless policies and practices (related to facilities, transportation, accountability, and much more) evolved with that particular system in mind.

I may not be able to read the continually revised commandments on the barn wall much better than Boxer, but I'm pretty sure that issuing policies with respect to school discipline, special education, admissions, and transportation necessarily interfere with school operations.

Designing an effective charter school policy therefore requires attention to details about accountability and other features, such as whether enrollment in charters is unified with traditional public school enrollment processes and whether charter schools provide transportation for students.

Waiving fees, supplying equipment or instruments, covering the cost of uniforms, providing transportation, partnering with community - based entities to offer scholarships for specialized skill and talent development, and eliminating cut policies are a few of the ways in which schools work diligently to ensure that all kids have access to the benefits of extracurricular participation.

The Office of School Finance is responsible for the development and administration of fiscal standards and other initiatives to promote or achieve efficiency within public schools; the administration of the state aid system for schools in accordance with applicable statutes; the development and maintenance of fiscal policy for all public school districts; and the development and maintenance of procedures for safe and efficient student transportation services.

For the rail industry, this cycle of regulation, along with government policies that provided subsidies to other modes of transportation, ultimately stifled innovation.

Student success takes hard work by young people and their teachers and parents, and it takes work not just around school policy but also with housing and health and fiscal and transportation policy.

Although Gaetz's bill does not include fiscal expenditures, as noted in the main text (§ IV, supra), in reviewing the start time / academic achievement studies undertaken by fellow economists, Columbia University Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics Jonah Rockoff and the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, Brian Jacob, concluded that delaying middle and high school start times «from roughly 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. -LSB-,]» will increase academic achievement by 0.175 standard deviations on average, with effects for disadvantaged students roughly twice as large as advantaged students, at little or no cost to schools; i.e., a 9 to 1 benefits to costs ratio when utilizing single - tier busing, the most expensive transportation method available.

Maybe, maybe... if you could hold other factors constant, such as the courses I teach, the number of students I teach, the curriculum, the technology and other resources, all the other teachers and all of their courses, the administrative policies, the school's schedule, school transportation, extra-curricular activities and field - trips that affect instructional time... if you haven't worked in a school, if you haven't administered the tests and watched the students» eyes glaze over as they go through a meaningless exercise with no consequences for them... then you simply do not understand this issue as well as you need to in order to make pronouncements about it.

We look forward to working with the Department of Transportation and other agencies on ways to further institutionalize retrospective review as an essential component of government regulatory policy.»

Conducts policy research on the economic impact of transportation investments and disruptions to the transportation system for significant freight and highway projects, in coordination with the OST - P40 office.

Therefore, the Office of the Under Secretary comprises multiple offices, with a broad range of functions and missions, including domestic and international transportation policy development and implementation, economic and legislative analysis, regulatory oversight and public engagement.

Provides the Secretary with advice on major policy issues currently before the Department across all modes of transportation.

This team works on a wide range of issues related to: ensuring that planned transportation projects meet community needs, including by ensuring effective public involvement; developing and reviewing transportation legislation and regulations related to transportation planning and investment; and coordinating national transportation policy initiatives, including by working with other federal, State and local agencies.

The Office of Transportation Policy reviews proposed Departmental regulatory actions to ensure that regulations are as consistent as possible with the policies of the Administration and the Secretary.

Work with the Department's modal administrations to promote and coordinate multi-modal international transportation policies and initiatives;

The Under Secretary oversees the Assistant Secretaries for Aviation and International Affairs (X) and for Transportation Policy (P), coordinating transportation policy development with the goal of making the Nation's transportation resources function as an integrated naTransportation Policy (P), coordinating transportation policy development with the goal of making the Nation's transportation resources function as an integrated national sPolicy (P), coordinating transportation policy development with the goal of making the Nation's transportation resources function as an integrated natransportation policy development with the goal of making the Nation's transportation resources function as an integrated national spolicy development with the goal of making the Nation's transportation resources function as an integrated natransportation resources function as an integrated national system.

Provide the Secretary with the best information available to develop international transportation policy and carry out the Department's international responsibilities in a timely manner;

On August 4, 2011, the Secretary of Transportation, along with heads of other Federal agencies, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Environmental Justice and Executive Order 12898 (EJ MOU) confirming the continued importance of identifying and addressing EJ considerations in agency programs, policies and activities as required by E.O. 12898.

The Department of Transportation's final rules applying the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to passenger vessel operators» (PVOs») policies took effect January 3, 2011.

The Department of Transportation (DOT) is a learning organization committed to achievement of its mission to develop transportation policies and programs that contribute to providing fast, safe, efficient, and convenient transportation at the lowest cost consistent with those and other national objectives, including the efficient use and conservation of the resources of the Transportation (DOT) is a learning organization committed to achievement of its mission to develop transportation policies and programs that contribute to providing fast, safe, efficient, and convenient transportation at the lowest cost consistent with those and other national objectives, including the efficient use and conservation of the resources of the transportation policies and programs that contribute to providing fast, safe, efficient, and convenient transportation at the lowest cost consistent with those and other national objectives, including the efficient use and conservation of the resources of the transportation at the lowest cost consistent with those and other national objectives, including the efficient use and conservation of the resources of the United States.

The FHWA Administrator convened 24 regional, policy - specific roundtables in cities around the Nation with participation from four DOT Operating Administrators, State and local transportation representatives, the business community, safety and environmental advocates, and freight stakeholders.

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of Aviation Enforcement and Proceedings (AEP) and Office of Transportation Policy have developed informative modular programs that can be used to assist individuals with disabilities and to supplement the training and education of airline employees and contractors.

DOT's Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office (ITS JPO) is working closely with NHTSA, FHWA, OST Research and Technology (OST - R), and OST Policy (OST - P) to execute the joint National Telecommunications and Information Administration, FCC and DOT spectrum research plan.

Stephen Garcia is a Transportation Specialist with the Federal Motor Carrier Administration, where he prepares policy documents and other materials for the agency.

We have an open door policy for any transportation project sponsor to meet with our team to discuss Bureau loan programs that could move projects forward.»

The planning team coordinates across the Department to ensure that DOT's Operating Administrations examine their programs, policies, and activities and take appropriate actions to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Executive Order 12898, the Memorandum of Understanding on Environmental Justice and Executive Order 12898, and DOT Order 5610.2 (a)(Department of Transportation Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations).