Today, I spoke to some of the transportation community’s key stakeholders, including academics and mayors from across the country, at the National Summit on Transportation and Opportunity.
At the summit, I imagined a future built upon our shared goal of connecting communities and people to Ladders of Opportunity.
If you’re curious about how innovative transportation planning can lift Americans out of poverty and connect people to opportunity, I encourage you to check out Volpe’s outstanding speaker series, The Future of Transportation: Safety, Opportunity, and Innovation.
Today, I want to shine the spotlight on Volpe’s next speaker, Ben Hecht, whose talk From Transit to Access: Rethinking How Cities Connect Their Residents to Opportunity will take place tomorrow, September 23 at 12 PM Eastern.
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) today released National Transit Map data, a geospatial database containing the information from 270 transit agencies that provides open, machine-readable data about their stops, routes, and schedules.
While USDOT is a federal agency, the impacts of our projects are felt most profoundly at the local level – on the roadways, transit systems, and other infrastructure that people use in their everyday lives.
Last week, I saw the game-changing potential of transportation firsthand when I joined local leaders in Baltimore to announce $10 million in TIGER funding for the North Avenue Rising project.
Funds to Provide Job Training for Transportation-related Careers in Eight States
WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced the Every Place Counts Design Challenge, which aims to raise awareness about existing transportation infrastructure barriers and identify innovative solutions to reconnect communities to jobs, healthcare, education, and other essential services.
Each day on this blog we highlight the ways in which transportation has connected us as a nation. Just think, before our highway system, that cross-country road trip you are planning for the summer would have been nearly impossible.
But today, in my speech at the Center for American Progress, I sought to inform on how past transportation infrastructure decisions have divided us.
Nothing in our built environment is accidental. And it’s no different in transportation – intentional design can be seen in all forms of transportation infrastructure – transit systems, airports, railroads and ports. But this intentional design is especially evident in our nation’s highway system.
When I talk to people about the inherent opportunities in mass transit, there are really only two things I want them to remember.
First, in low-income communities, public transportation can be an economic engine with lasting implications for housing, jobs, schools, safety, and health. And second, those gains aren’t happenstance. Local officials and neighborhood nonprofits need to aggressively go after transit-oriented (TOD) investment dollars if they want to leverage bus and rail lines to transform struggling areas.
To date, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) has invested more than $400 million in TOD projects. We’ve learned that the difference between success and failure, often, is an intentional effort to bring TOD dollars to places starving for new capital. It takes strong collaborations among city leaders, community groups, and residents to make that happen. And, when it does, the impact is significant...
