Sentences with phrase «on transportation policy»

Ability to speak clearly and honestly about the relationship between, and impacts of, institutionalized racism on transportation policy and planning.

On the transportation policy front, most of the traffic measures put in place for the Beijing Olympics have, as expected, proved to be short - lived.

He's also an expert on transportation policy.

Providing legal counsel in litigation involving actions taken by the Secretary or employees of the Office of the Secretary, in litigation relating to more than one operating administration, and in litigation raising issues of broad or significant impact on transportation policy or the Department;

On June 19th, the University Transportation Research Center hosted a mayoral candidate forum focused on transportation policy.

CIHT will be producing key statements to provide guidance and advice to decision makers on transportation policy.»

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

He is a progressive policy leader on housing, education, economic justice, transportation, environmentalism, and more.

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.

Broadly speaking, Cuomo's upstate economic development strategy remains heavily weighted toward dubious business tax breaks, while his transportation policies still squander resources on stuff like a toll freeze for Thruway drivers.

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.

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But he has faced criticism for his education and transportation policies — issues Nixon hopes to seize on in her campaign.

Gotham Gazette is an online publication covering New York policy and politics as well as news on public safety, transportation, education, finance and more.

He called on the state to increase funding for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and criticized Cuomo's school - takeover policy, but without calling out the governor by name.

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

He said that he and Diaz Sr. have «totally different views» on social issues but he expects him to fight hard on issues like transportation policy, environmental issues and public health issues.

The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), has called on the Chief Executive Officer of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST), Alfred Obeng, to step aside for a full - scale investigation into the alleged sale of contaminated fuel.

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.

The study recommends government agencies focus efforts on enacting policies and programs to better protect rural households during a drought, such as supporting sustainable agriculture projects in the region, increasing transportation options to access city centers and providing access to insurance and credit schemes.

«We're looking for more Michigan - or Great Lakes - level detail on a climate model, which we haven't seen yet,» said Niles Annelin, an environmental policy specialist at the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT).

Haines is one of a number of privacy campaigners who attended a workshop organised by the Intelligent Transportation Society of America to discuss the society's policy on privacy.

In a study published recently in the journal Transport Policy, the researchers analyze the transportation plans of 18 metropolitan areas across the U.S. and Canada — from San Diego to Montreal — and find that many plans focus largely on local environmental and congestion - reduction goals.

«We now have better information sharing between federal agencies and systems to track whether students and researchers have changed their fields of study,» says C. Stewart Verdery, outgoing assistant secretary for Border / Transportation Security Policy at the Department of Homeland Security and one of the officials who worked on the extension.

Andrew Murphy, a policy officer at Brussels - based NGO Transportation and Environment, said European regulators might also step up pressure on ICAO to deliver a strong standard.

«The city doesn't get to its climate goals without cutting how many miles we're driving on our roads and then electrifying the difference,» said Chris Bast, climate and transportation policy adviser in Seattle's Office of Sustainability and Environment.

If the world's cities focused their investments on expanding public transportation, walking and cycling, they could save more than $ 100 trillion in public and private capital and urban transportation operating costs between now and 2050, according to a report released today by the University of California, Davis, and the Institute for Transportation and Development transportation, walking and cycling, they could save more than $ 100 trillion in public and private capital and urban transportation operating costs between now and 2050, according to a report released today by the University of California, Davis, and the Institute for Transportation and Development transportation operating costs between now and 2050, according to a report released today by the University of California, Davis, and the Institute for Transportation and Development Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP).

ACC is calling on the Surface Transportation Board to set aside a highly flawed report performed by InterVISTAS regarding the Board's current rate review policies.

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.

But that would diminish the authority of local school boards; require changes to policies on facilities, transportation, enrollment, and funding; potentially lead to school closures and job losses; undermine «neighborhood» schools; and more.

On the importance of government, for example, Brian Eschbacher, executive director of Planning and Enrollment Services in Denver Public Schools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families, more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and charter schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confidently.

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.

Assault on High School Sports: Destroys Florida High School Athletes Association by turning student athletes into free agents, prevents school districts from having their own policies, allows transfers to other schools without regulations, creates unfair advantages for a few schools, and encourages athlete recruitment by neglecting to provide for transportation.

Section E contains policies, regulations, and exhibits on non-instructional services and programs, particularly those on business management, safety, building and grounds management, office services, transportation, and food services.