Sentences with phrase «for transportation policy»

Congestion pricing «never really went away» said Mitchell L. Moss, the director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at New York University, noting that «it has an intrinsic appeal — a single solution that raises revenue, improves our environment and reduces congestion.»

I heard she had studied public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School and had taken a job with the late Senator Daniel P. Moynihan, but only recently I read that she had just been confirmed by the Senate as the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy under Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, having done stints with Senators Charles Schumer and Barbara Boxer and become an expert in matters near and dear to Automobile Magazine readers» hearts - roads, highways, and transportation policy.

The Office shall play the lead role in advising the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy and the Under Secretary for Policy on the development of policies related to innovative finance and procurement.

The Resource Directorate serves as the focal point for management guidance while providing resource oversight for the Office of the Under Secretary, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs.

Polly Trottenberg, the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy, on the state of our transportation infrastructure and why the gas tax can't pay for it all.

The DOT Credit Council members include six representatives from the Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST): the Deputy Secretary of Transportation (Chair), the Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs (Vice-Chair), the Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy, the General Counsel, the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy, and the Director of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization.

Guidance across agencies will be streamlined to an appropriate degree through the DOT Working Group, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy, and the Departmental Office of Civil Rights.

The Office of the Resource Directorate serves as the focal point for resource oversight for the Office of the Under Secretary, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs, and the Build America Bureau.

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 national system.

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy is the office primarily responsible for recommending transportation policy initiatives to the Secretary, Deputy Secretary and Under Secretary.

Ensures that the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy is briefed on the activities of the Build America Bureau and prepared for monthly meetings of the Council on Credit and Finance.

Mitchell L. Moss, another member of the task force who is the director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at New York University, said that was «a missed opportunity.»

Congestion pricing «never really went away» said Mitchell L. Moss, the director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at New York University, noting that «it has an intrinsic appeal — a single solution that raises revenue, improves our environment and reduces congestion.»

Mitchell Moss, director of the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management is also on the panel.

Mitchell Moss, Director, Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management, Henry Hart Rice Professor Urban Policy and Planning at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

In a forthcoming report from New York University's Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management by Eric Kober entitled «Uses and Abuses of Value Capture for Transit,» Kober writes that the first, similar iteration of the proposal «diverts New York City's largest and most stable tax source in a manner that could affect the City's fiscal stability.»

At 8:45 a.m., Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, NYU's Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Appleseed Inc hold breakfast forum, which includes the unveiling of a new report «Downtown Rising: How Brooklyn became a Model for Urban Development» and remarks from Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, The Puck Bldg, 295 Lafayette St., Manhattan.

Lindsay is also a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute and a visiting scholar at New York University's Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management.

This is in addition to the more than $ 6 billion each year needed for low - income energy efficiency programs, $ 8 billion for transportation policies and programs, and $ 3 billion for clean energy R&D.

Not exact matches

So policy makers focus on «core inflation,» which ignores changes in prices for fruit, vegetables, gasoline, fuel oil, natural gas, mortgage interest, intercity transportation, tobacco products and indirect taxes.

On one hand, the slow lane for self - driving cars isn't totally unexpected, as the Trump administration continues to chart its course in major transportation policy debates and decides which federal programs to keep or replace.

That estimate comes from the Economic Policy Institute's (EPI) 2015 Family Budget Calculator, which measures the annual cost of necessities for one adult to live a secure, yet modest, lifestyle by estimating the costs of housing, food, transportation, health care, other necessities, and taxes.

Transportation policy experts say that high - speed transit in the United States has been stymied not so much by technological challenges as by the challenges of acquiring rights of way and getting enough money for the required infrastructure.

The most important policy action for mitigating the damage of a recession is for the central bank to keep interest rates low, according to the respondents, followed by increasing spending on transportation and other infrastructure projects.

«Child migration will affect certain states and localities differently, based on where costs such as education are incurred but also based on gains in terms of spending for things like shelter and transportation,» said Michelle Mittelstadt of the Migration Policy Institute.

Other highlights included a report on ridesharing and innovative transportation options, the passing of seven policy resolutions at the BC Chamber AGM in Kelowna, advocating for transit and transportation funding in the Lower Mainland, the redesign of the Sounding Board newspaper, and the unveiling of a new logo and new website.

«For vehicle malfunctions due to warrantable issues, transportation services for the first 500 miles is covered by Tesla; is limited to one tow per incident; and does not cover transportation due to issues not covered by the warranty,» notes Tesla's revised Roadside Assistance poliFor vehicle malfunctions due to warrantable issues, transportation services for the first 500 miles is covered by Tesla; is limited to one tow per incident; and does not cover transportation due to issues not covered by the warranty,» notes Tesla's revised Roadside Assistance polifor the first 500 miles is covered by Tesla; is limited to one tow per incident; and does not cover transportation due to issues not covered by the warranty,» notes Tesla's revised Roadside Assistance policy.

«The more likely someone is to use Uber and Lyft, the more likely they are to take public transportation, and for our industry that is very heartening,» said Darnell Grisby, the group's director of policy development and research.

The top sectors expected to see employment growth are leisure and hospitality, trade, transportation and utilities, according to the Center for Business and Policy Research at the University of the Pacific.

On Tuesday, Arizona's director for policy and communications at the state's department of transportation, Kevin Biesty, said existing regulations were sufficient and that the state had no immediate plans to issue new rules.

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.

Although the modern trucking industry has existed for over a century it is still younger than the railroad, which still holds tremendous influence over transportation policy today.

It reimburses policyholders for expenses like hotel stays, dining out and alternative transportation up to the limit of a policy.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The White House said Thursday that President Donald Trump plans to nominate a Lyft Inc executive as under secretary of transportation for policy.

The Shared Mobility Principles for Livable Cities were developed in 2017 by Robin Chase, Zipcar co-Founder, and a consortium of leading city and transport organizations including: the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, ICLEI — Local Governments for Sustainability, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, Natural Resources Defense Council, Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT), Transportation for America (T4America), Rocky Mountain Institute, Shared - Use Mobility Center, and WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities.

This problem today is engendered and sustained by virtually every institution responsible for the creation of the built environment: the real estate development industry; the construction industry; federal, state and local regulatory agencies; the rule - of - thumb manuals of transportation engineers; the lending policies of banks; the professions of architecture and planning; the patrons of architecture; and above all the zoning ordinances that regulate where and how buildings get built.

Angela Glover Blackwell, Appointee for Member, President's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Angela Glover Blackwell is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Policy Link, a nonprofit organization that strives to advance economic and social equity, improving access and opportunity for all low - income people and communities of color, particularly in the areas of health, housing, transportation, education and infrastructure.

Those nine areas are focused on agriculture (carbon farming), increasing energy efficiency, reducing food waste, eliminating commodity - driven deforestation, reducing the climate impact of packaging, advocating for responsible policies, committing to 100 percent renewable power, reducing short - lived climate pollutant emissions and transportation - related emissions.

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.»

Her previous work experience includes the Center for Community Change as a policy analyst on transportation issues and Housing Comes First, Missouri's statewide low - income housing coalition, as director of tenant organizing.

The plan establishes a set of six fundamental principles for the region, which include: transportation and other infrastructure upgrades; new commercial and residential growth; land use and transportation decisions based on policies like the Global Warming Solutions Act and the Clean Energy and Climate Plan; creation and preservation of workforce housing that matches new job rates; creation and maintenance of an effective public transit system; and coordinated planning and implementation efforts.

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.

It addresses changes to the federal tax code, education, sexual harassment policies, and increased funding for The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Ultimately, the mayor needs to join Gov. Andrew Cuomo in support for congestion pricing, which has proved effective in cities like London and Stockholm, according to Jon Orcutt, spokesman at the nonprofit TransitCenter and former policy director at the city's Department of Transportation.

«We don't have tolls on any of our state highways, so we don't have revenue generating mechanisms for many of the projects,» said Robert Zerrillo, the acting director of policy and planning for the state Department of Transportation.

Cuomo and de Blasio, both Democrats, have been battling for years over tax and transportation policy, governmental competence, how to manage outbreaks of infectious diseases and even the fate of an errant deer.

During his time in the Assembly, Brian has established himself as a consistent progressive voice for affordable housing, equitable transportation policy, and addressing income inequality.

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 report, «Vision Zero: How Safer Streets In New York City Can Save Over 100 Lives A Year,» was issued on June 8th by the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy and Transportation Alternatives.

The New Yorkers for Clean Power campaign, a coalition which includes uptown organizations, will focus on advocacy to engage the public, local governments and businesses to push forward renewable energy and clean transportation options and to expand the state's clean energy policies, said Campaign Coordinator Renee Vogelsang.