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A PenTrans Technical Forum:

Road Safety

and

Speed Cameras

Friday, January 31, 8:00 to 10:00 am

At Pepper Hamilton, LLP

3000 Logan Square

18th and Arch Streets, Philadelphia

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PenTrans Board of Directors

Co-Chairs

Beverly Harper

Portfolio Associates, Inc.

Thomas J. Spearing, III.

Hill International, Inc.

Secretary-Treasurer

Tom Halterman

Urban Engineers, Inc.

Mark Alisesky
Michael Baker Corp.

Edward M. D'Alba

Urban Engineers, Inc.

Richard Amodei

STV, Inc.

Bert Cossaboon

McCormick Taylor

Peter Denitz

Parsons Brinckerhoff

Jason Duckworth

Arcadia Land Company

Dan Faust

AECOM

Yassmin Gramian
HNTB

Alex Houseal
URS

Eli Khoury
HDR

Adam Krom

Amtrak

Kate O'Connor
Jacobs

Carol Rose

WTS

Anna Lynn Smith
Parsons Brinckerhoff

Richard P. Voith

Econsult Solutions, Inc.

Emille L. Williams
COMTO

Executive Director

Peter Javsicas

PenTrans Member Organizations

AECOM

Bombardier

CH2MHILL

COMTO

DRM International, Inc.

Econsult Corp.

Gannett Fleming

HDR, Inc.

Hill International

HNTB

IBI Group

Jacobs Engineering

Jeffrey Parker & Associates, Inc.

LTK Engineering Services

Malady & Wooten LLC

McCormick Taylor

Michael Baker Jr.

Parsons Brinckerhoff

Portfolio Associates, Inc.

T&M Associates

SEPTA

STV, Incorporated

Traffic Planning and Design, Inc.

TranSystems

Urban Engineers, Inc.

URS Corp.

WTS

PenTrans Update

Jan. 2, 2014

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Pennsylvania

Wholesale Gasoline Tax in Pa.
Goes Up By 9.5�/Gal.
-CBS Philly Ch. 3

Pa. gas tax to rise Jan. 1,
again in 2015 and '17
-Philadelphia Inquirer

York gas prices to increase
as Pennsylvania transportation bill
is implemented
-York Dispatch

Sheetz Comments On
Pennsylvania Transportation Act
-Convenience Store Decisions

Peduto presents Pittsburgh 'blueprint'
-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

What SEPTA won't be
giving you for the holidays
-Philadelphia City Paper

State's $35.8 million investment
to expand, improve rail and
aviation operations
-WayneIndependent.com

Poll: Transpo Funding
Biggest State News Story of the Year
-Harper Polling

New Year's Wishes for SEPTA
-newsworks

New Jersey

Menendez: Public Transportation Tax Benefit Critical For NJ Commuters

-NJTODAY.NET

4 Reasons Commuter Tax Credit Slashed

-newjerseynewsroom.com

Judge dismisses lawsuit from

Save the Dinky group in Princeton

-The Times of Trenton

Nation & World

Edward Wytkind
Rejecting Scrooge-Like
Transportation Budgets in 2014
-HuffPost

Michael E. Webber, associate professor
of mechanical engineering and deputy director
of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas
How to Overhaul the Gas Tax
-NY Times

New Market Tax Credits Set to Expire
-Next City

Kate Sheppard
You'll Never Guess Which Companies
Are Already Planning For
A Price On Carbon
-HuffPost

Most People Still Drive to Work Alone
-Stateline

Robin Chase, ZipCar founder
Where Do Cars Belong
in 21st Century America?
-Network Musings

Jarrett Walker
A glimpse into the road lobby's
echo chamber, and how to respond
-Human Transit

In a Car-Culture Clash,
It's the Los Angeles Police vs. Pedestrians
-New York Times

Todd Litman
Smarter Congestion Solutions in 2014
-Planetizen

Matt Phillips
11 Reasons Why Bicycling in the U.S.
Is Exceptionally Dangerous
-The Atlantic Cities

Rich Heap
5 Reasons Copenhagen Is EU Green Capital
-Future Cities

Clarence Eckerson, Jr.
NYC Streets Metamorphosis
-StreetsFilms

Ben Fried
NYC's Next Transportation Commissioner
Is Polly Trottenberg
-Streetsblog

Light Rail that Works:
Plan, Integrate and Optimise
-Sourceable

Business owners reflect on
10 years of metro rail
-MyFox Houston

Why Apple's Suburban Spaceship
Could Lose the War for Tech Talent
-Wired

Iowa slams door on Amtrak
-Quad-City Times

Eric Jaffe
Wi-Fi Doesn't Just Enhance Amtrak
- It May Actually Encourage New Riders
-The Atlantic Cities

High Speed Rail-Go-Round

Tommy Thompson Once Again
Backs High Speed Rail
-Wisconsin Public Radio

Road Work Ahead: The year
in California's infrastructure news
-California Economic Summit

High-speed railway to link Beijing, Shenyang
-ChinaDaily USA

Harbin-Shanghai
high-speed train service opens
-Xinhua

Can Hyperloop Actually Be Built?
-LA Weekly

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Energy Independent

Transportation sucks up too much oil

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Andy Singer Cartoon

PenTrans Advisory Group

Beverly Coleman
- Urban Ventures Group, Inc.
Joseph DiFiore

-PB

John Dockendorf

-PennDOT

Karen Gelman
         - Amtrak
Court Gould
         - Sustainable Pittsburgh
Joseph Guzzi
         - HNTB
Chris Jandoli

-Parsons Brinckerhoff

Carol Martsolf

-WTS

Patrick Starr
        - Penn Environmental Council
Julie Green
        - LTK Engineering Services
Vukan Vuchic
         - UPenn
Rick Wooten
   - Malady & Wooten

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