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The NJDEP is currently in the process of making revisions to the Stormwater Management Rules SWM. The revisions focus mainly on residential site improvement standards which could potentially affect the highways’ stormwater management. These changes will be more stringent thus complicating the development of highway projects through environmentally sensitive areas.
The research team worked with staff across all MTA operating agencies to analyze the impacts of deferring or canceling six projects in MTA’s propose 2005-09 core capital program. The objective was to come up with a clear methodology and means for communicating the fiscal prudence of these projects to policymakers and the public.
The project's major goal is to develop a substantive policy paper describing consensus-based solution(s) to the regions freight transportation problems. The solutions will be described both in terms of the capital program actions which NYSDOT-Region II should undertake as well as the partnerships that should be forged with other agencies responsible for constructing, operating and maintaining the region's highway system.
Traffic congestion interferes with the ability of a transit agency to provide good bus service. By reducing the speed that buses can travel, congestion requires a greater expenditure of resources (particularly the number of buses, drivers, and vehicle hours) to provide a given level of service to the passengers.
While significant efficiencies have been achieved in both urban and interurban freight movements, the substantial growth in trade volumes, increased congestion, scarce and expensive real estate for freight, and diseconomies characterizing supply chains have radically altered freight transport and logistics over the last five years.
Project publications may be ordered by contacting Dr. Ellen Thorson.
The immigrant population has increased markedly in the taxi workforce in urban areas throughout the U.S. necessitating language screening tests as well as longer driver training programs. The challenge of preparing new immigrants to meet the demands of passengers in a complex urban area is enormous. To help meet this challenge, this project conducted a survey of the incoming taxi workforce at the New York City Taxi Driver Institute (NYCTDI) in the first half of 1992.
