While piloting courseware in Charlotte this summer, Center staff had the opportunity to follow along with video equipment as CATS rail vehicle maintainers spent time on the shop floor getting hands-on training. As a result, we produced six step-by-step instructional videos to supplement the APS and Batteries suite of courseware. Topics include: Safety before Working, Battery Inspection and Maintenance, APS Removal and Installation, APS Inspection and Maintenance, APS Ventilation Inspection and Maintenance, and Squirrel Cage Removal and Installation. The videos will be made available to Consortium members online and will be linked to from the courseware itself.
For information about having your agency's training and equipment featured in upcoming videos, please contact Kenyon Corbett.
His transportation secretary is likely to be one of the more essential players. Mr. Trump, a real estate magnate, has said that infrastructure redevelopment will be a priority of his first 100 days in office. And Ms. Chao has experience - politically and personally - in navigating the competing centers of power in the capital. She is married to Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader. This will be her second time serving in a White House cabinet if she is confirmed. As secretary of labor under President George W. Bush, she was the only official in his administration to serve all eight years.
Iran's transit potentials have been limited due to sanctions. However, in the post-sanctions era, Iran has made attempts to tap its potentials in the transit sector. Located in western Asia, Iran links West and East Asia together. Covering an area of some 1.6 million square kilometers, Iran is the world's 18th-biggest country. Its northern neighbors are either land-locked or have no access to high seas, which makes their transit route options pretty limited. On the other hand, other Western Asian countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan or Iraq have been deeply sunk in security challenges, making them unsafe paths for the transit of goods to and from central Asian countries.
In a speech marking his first anniversary with the agency Wednesday, Metro General Manager Paul J. Wiedefeld will introduce a post-SafeTrack agenda shifting the emphasis from track infrastructure to railcars, the source of a majority of the system's delays.
Long the scourge of personal computers and small businesses, ransomware -- like the virus that struck San Francisco Muni's computer systems over the weekend -- is becoming increasingly common among large corporations and public agencies are no exception, digital security analysts said.
Federal regulators say the nation's railroads are making slow and uneven progress in installing positive train control, technology that could prevent train crashes, and there is growing concern that several railroads may not make the government's deadline for implementing the system.
Frederick County's transit agency is taking part in a federal pilot program to help develop new safety rules for transit departments. TransIT Services of Frederick County is one of three systems in Maryland, along with those in Charles and Montgomery counties, testing new safety procedures to be used by the Federal Transit Administration. The pilot program will look at how to implement a safety management system for transit agencies of different sizes.
The MTA, a division of the Maryland Department of Transportation, is one of the largest transit systems in the United States, and its buses, light rail, subway and paratransit serve riders in Baltimore and throughout the state of Maryland. In early 2012, the MTA had a problem - too many of its recently trained bus drivers were involved in accidents.
The deceptively sweet smell of dirty, poorly refined gasoline lingers in Ryan Popple's memories from his days leading a U.S. Army platoon protecting convoys of fuel and supplies that kept American forces moving during the Iraq War. Seeing how much fuel was needed and the effort to keep getting it, he thought: Something's wrong with this picture. "If you weren't pushing fuel forward you had to be doing the reverse logistics, going back to refuel." While resupplying at a port, he says, "we would literally offload... armored vehicles in Kuwait and you'd see oil tankers going the other way."
Marin will have a first by late next summer - all-electric buses rolling around the county on a permanent basis. Marin Transit will buy two all-electric battery buses as part of a $1.6 million project to get cleaner-burning vehicles on the road. The project will provide an opportunity to test the technology using the two 35-foot buses, expected to arrive in September 2017. The program will allow the district to develop expertise on the buses and steer future and potentially wider use of the battery-powered buses.
Hailed as "America's Subway" when it began operating 40 years ago, Washington's Metro transit system now could serve as Exhibit A for the U.S infrastructure woes President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to fix. Crucial to helping the federal government run smoothly, the second-busiest U.S. subway is facing falling ridership, accidents, a $290 million budget gap, job cuts and soaring costs to fix its crumbling rail lines.
One of the unheralded national stories from Election Day is just how well trains and buses did at the ballot box, as voters in dozens of cities approved local tax increases to expand and improve public transit. "Election Day 2016 was historic for ballot measures that supported investment in public transportation," says Jason Jordan, director of the Center for Transportation Excellence, which tracks such ballot initiatives.
New Castle, DE - The nearby factory that made Dodge Durangos closed eight years ago. The General Motors Boxwood Road Plant - open since 1947 - closed the next year. So did the oil refinery in Delaware City. In the span of a year during the financial crisis, once-prosperous northern Delaware had to confront post-industrial devastation. I came here to New Castle looking for a jolt of hope after the terribly dispiriting presidential campaign. I came to see one of the more promising attacks on the Great American Stagnation.
