Kenyon Corbett Joins Center Staff as Program and Communications Coordinator
Originally from the Baltimore area, Kenyon has also lived in Maine, San Francisco and the Czech Republic. He now calls Washington, DC home. Kenyon has experience working in communications for a public radio affiliate in Baltimore as well as with international Non-Governmental Organizations. He also brings strong research and writing skills to the Center. Most recently Kenyon served as a Senior Project Coordinator helping to oversee a large USAID funded project grant in the Middle East and North Africa focused on peacebuilding and conflict transformation. Kenyon has a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in Media and Communications Studies. He also has training as a video editor. While not trying to learn all he can about the transportation world, he enjoys working in his garden, traveling and cooking. In this Program and Communications Coordinator position, Kenyon will help carry out the Center's mission-critical workforce development programs, and promote the Center's work through communications and outreach activities. He can be reached at [email protected].
Wide-open spaces have long kindled developers' imaginations and attracted stifled city-dwellers looking for a change of scenery and pace. But betting on something near the far reaches of a transit system presents its own set of challenges. Visitors have to get there. If you build it, how will they come? Coney Island is a great example. A new exhibition at Brooklyn's New York Transit Museum traces the trajectory of the transit routes that shuttled urbanites to the shore, and, in turn, how the park grew in tandem with the system.
Mercedes-Benz has partnered with CityPilot to showcase the future of public transportation. CityPilot's new technology, equipped with connectivity, camera and radar systems with data fusion, allows the semi-automated city bus to operate more safely, efficiently and comfortably than conventional buses.
A couple from Cobble Hill threw one of the most New York weddings in history - tying the knot on the Staten Island Ferry and then holding their reception on a packed 1 train during Friday rush-hour. "I think we're the only idiots who would ever do this," joked the groom, Keith Haskel. "We wanted to do it our way, though, and that's exactly what we did. Nobody tried to stop us."
Dubai - CAREEM, the region's leading app based booking service, today announced a strategic partnership with NEXT Future Transportation, Inc. to bring battery-powered, self-driving electric pods to the MENA region. The partnership comes on the heels of His Highness Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's announcement of the launch of the Dubai Autonomous Transportation Strategy, a new initiative aimed at making 25 percent of all transportation trips in Dubai be smart and driverless by 2030. The initiative requires innovation, experimentation and the participation of companies working to transform the current transportation industry across the UAE.
Safe, modern and efficient public infrastructure ensures the well-being of British Columbia communities. The governments of Canada and British Columbia are committed to supporting infrastructure that helps get people to good paying jobs and back to their families after a hard day's work.
Commuters, and maybe a few visiting delegates, will get a sneak preview of SEPTA's new electric buses during the Democratic National Convention next week. An emissions-free bus will offer rides in Center City, shuttling passengers between stops near City Hall, the Pennsylvania Convention Center and Independence Mall. You know, we're deploying at the DNC, but this is by no means a blue state technology," joked Ryan Popple, CEO of Proterra, which manufactured the vehicle.
A three-year pilot program to provide free or reduced-fare bus passes to students at select middle and high schools in Alameda County will begin rolling out this fall. The program aims to reduce the barriers some students face in getting to school, said Tess Lengyel, the deputy executive director of planning and policy for the Alameda County Transportation Commission, which is administering the program. "For many families, the cost of transportation to school has become a barrier," Lengyel said. "This (pilot) will look at how we can reduce those barriers and how we can improve access to transit."
Susan Shaheen, a Berkeley professor specializing in transportation study, may know more about ride-sharing than any other academic in America. And that has put her in a position to broker deals with hot transportation startups: They give her access to their data, and she assesses their environmental impact. Many of these companies are willing to share for the potential to gain unbiased confirmation of a key selling point - that their models have the potential to improve our transportation ecosystems.
The Sacramento Regional Transit Authority announced its new management structure Monday. The organization will be divided into six priority areas: accountability, transit services, partnerships, safety, planning and finance. The reorganization follows the elimination of 20 management positions and the hiring of 16 people to clean buses, trains, and stations every day. Henry Li is Sac RT's new General Manager and Chief Executive Officer. "We are experiencing some significant cultural and business transformation. We want to put our customers first in everything we do," he says. Li has been on the job for four months. He comes to Sacramento from Jacksonville. "We can rebuild this agency as effective, efficient and accountable organization," he says.
Governor Christie said Monday that he has "no idea" how the battle with Democratic legislators over transportation funding will end. But it won't be with Senate President Stephen Sweeney's latest offering. Christie last week met with Sweeney, D-Gloucester, who proposed an amended version of a bill that had bipartisan support in the Senate to raise the gasoline tax by 23 cents a gallon and cut other taxes by about $870 million. Neither side would disclose the details of the retooled version of the bill, but for now the specifics are of no consequence.
