Sentences with phrase «of transportation policy»

Transportation managers who work in the public sector are also involved in the development of transportation policy.

«The Republican House leadership hijacked the transportation bill for political purposes,» says Deron Lovaas, director of transportation policy for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

She shares with us her observations on cycling infrastructure and culture in the Russian capital from the perspective of a transportation policy researcher.

That's because US Department of Transportation policy requires two physical side mirrors to be affixed to a new car.

The Office cooperates with the Office of General Counsel, the Office of Transportation Policy, and modal offices in developing the Department's position on all relevant legislative matters.

The Office of Transportation Policy is the office responsible for recommending overall surface transportation policy initiatives to the Secretary.

The Permitting Dashboard website, hosted and managed jointly by the Department's Office of Transportation Policy and Office of the Chief Information Officer, is one element of a larger, government - wide effort to streamline and increase transparency into the federal permitting and review process.

Unauthorized access is a violation of U.S. Law and Department of Transportation policy, and may result in criminal or administrative penalties.

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.

An overview of the US Department of Transportation policy on linking to to external websites from DOT.gov.

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.

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.

«People really hate the GPS idea,» admits Robert Poole, director of transportation policy at the Reason Foundation in Washington, D.C., and member of the Mileage - Based User Fees Alliance.

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.

Saying that he plans to release a broad statement of transportation policies next week, Massey declared that he would «initiate [a] system overhaul immediately» to address «major switching problems» responsible for many of the recent subway delays.

The Office of the Chief Economist examines transportation policy issues from an economic perspective, conducts analyses of the economic effects of transportation policies, and designs more economically efficient policies.

The Environment team within the Office of Policy Development, Strategic Planning and Performance works across the spectrum of energy and environmental issues, coordinating across DOT's modes and with other Federal agencies to ensure that the environmental impacts of transportation policies are considered at all levels.

«One looks in vain,» he wrote Johnson, «for a point of responsibility below the President capable of taking an evenhanded, comprehensive, authoritarian approach to the development of transportation policies or even able to assure reasonable coordination and balance among the various transportation programs of the government.»

Not exact matches

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.

In addition to the president, the Coalition has booked a number of Trump administration officials, including Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and White House Director of Policy and Interagency Coordination Carlos Rosillo.

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.

This fundamental shift will reshape urban transportation, and is being driven by changes in the regulation, pricing, and workforce policies of ride - hailing services.

These employees also collect data on the regional impact of government policies like taxation, international trade, labour markets, transportation or agriculture.

«As you consider the Administration's proposal, I ask that you consider policies that will bridge the partisan divide and serve the myriad needs of communities across the country — including those of Nevada,» Sen. Catherine Cortez - Masto of Nevada wrote in a letter to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Gary Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council.

Discouraging people from getting from place to place is hardly the goal of any sensible transportation policy.

As part of the Michigan legislation, the law will establish the Michigan Council on Future Mobility, an arm of Michigan's Department of Transportation, to recommend policies setting industry standards.

Through relief flights, the transportation of emergency supplies, airline employee volunteer efforts and fundraising programs facilitated through airline mileage programs, U.S. cargo and passenger carriers transported more than 4.5 million pounds of life - saving food, water and supplies, accommodated more than 6,500 evacuees, relocated hundreds of stranded pets and relaxed travel policies to more than 80 airports in the path of the hurricanes.

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.

«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.

«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.

Simon Fraser University's Sustainable Transportation Research Team and Clean Energy Canada have prepared a comparison of EV policies from the B.C. Liberals, B.C. Greens and B.C. NDP.

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.

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.

The most current version of Chit Chats Express's Battery Transportation Policy is available here.

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.

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao on Wednesday announced the U.S. DOT is seeking public input on policies to hasten the deployment of self - driving trucks, buses and passenger cars, including vehicles that require no human input to operate.

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.

It is an extension of the principles, policies, and practices of capitalism to the global scale aided by the modern means of research, communication and transportation.

Instead of committing to helping families and individuals improve their social and economic conditions (by pushing policy makers to strengthen access to affordable housing, health care, child care, public transportation, job training, etc.), we blame them.

The Sikh Coalition, United Sikhs and the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund are lobbying members of Congress in an effort to pressure federal transportation authorities to re-examine a policy they say unfairly scrutinizes members of the Sikh community.

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.»