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Planning for Public Transit Use in Natural Disasters Can Save a City

Across the country, major cities have increasingly been facing natural disasters. In emergencies like these, transportation infrastructure comes under massive strain to get people out of harm’s way. This raises the question: how can we prepare systems designed for everyday needs to withstand the extreme?

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How Four Communities Are Building Resiliency into Their Transportation Systems

From hurricanes to heatwaves, here are some of the ways we’re thinking about resiliency planning in our projects. 

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NYSERDA’s Bold Ideas to Reduce Carbon Emissions

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) 2022 Clean Transportation Program announced an ambitious goal of cutting state carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050. Here’s how!

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Using Transportation Modeling to Support Safe Evacuations

Evacuation planning is anything but simple. Though we like to use the word “plan,” the reality is natural disasters are wildly unpredictable in nature. Try…

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Resilience Planning: Making Streets Nimble for Future Generations

When the nimbleness of a transportation network is tested, it’s rarely by an expected event – which is why it’s critical for communities to plan…

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