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Senate Transportation Chair Disses CRC Funding
Quoted in Willamette Week: State lawmakers’ flagging interest in increasing the gas tax next year is driving a hole in a proposed funding plan for the $4.2 billion Columbia River Crossing Project (see “Bridge Over the River Why,” WW, May 21, 2008). A proposed 14-cent-per-gallon gas tax hike had set aside 2 cents for the…
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Updated: PSU Fall Transportation Courses
Update One additional course has been added: We are pleased to announce a new course for Fall 2008: Transportation and Logistics Modeling and Optimization (4 credits) Mondays 10:00 AM -1:50 PM Instructor: Miguel Figliozzi For more details see: http://www.its.pdx.edu/pdf/ce510_T&L_M&O.pdf This course will introduce graduate students to economic evaluation and mathematical modeling including linear programming, dynamic…
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Highway Trust Fund Running on Fumes
Several years ago it was predicted that the Highway Trust Fund would stop being able to meet budgeted funding levels in 2009. The reduction in VMT due to gas prices has moved up the crisis point to, well… now. It’s bad enough that even President Bush is considering reversing his position on transfering funds into…
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Students at Franklin and Jefferson Will Ride TriMet for Free
Scaled down from the original request to pilot all Portland Public Schools students from grades 6-12, the Multnomah Youth Commission has gotten buy-in from the City of Portland and TriMet to allow student ids at Franklin and Jefferson to function as TriMet passes. The program will expand to other schools in 2009.