Senator Michael Stack
"Road Safety and High Speed Cameras"

PenTrans Breakfast Forum

Jan. 31, 2014

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Portfolio Associates, Inc.

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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

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AECOM

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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

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COMTO

DRM International, Inc.

Econsult Corp.

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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

Feb. 14th, 2014

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Pennsylvania

SEPTA to extend Media/Elwyn
line 3 miles to Wawa
-The Swarthmore Phoenix

More Benefits from New Transportation Plan as Pennsylvania Municipalities Prepare to Receive $345 Million in Liquid Fuels Payments, Eight Percent Increase from Previous Year
-Sacramento Bee

PA Transportation Bill Money:
Fix-ups or New Roads?
-WNEP 16 Scranton Wilkes-Barre

Washington Township officials plead case
to Pa. secretary of transportation
-Heraldmailmedia.com

Infrastructure investment overdue
-Philadelphia Inquirer

Port Authority to use new,
real-time data in route upgrades
-Pittsburgh Business Times

With Help From Supercapacitors, SEPTA
Trains Are Providing New Services to the Grid
-greentechgrid

Biden touts new Amtrak locomotive
as engine of the future, job generator
-newsworks

Decision Lens Selected by
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission for Information Technology Prioritization Efforts
-EINNewsdesk

PennDOT touts improved
travel information system
-Allentown Morning Call

Feb. 19 land-use webinar to focus on
'transit-oriented/walkable' communities
-Penn State News

High rents forecast for Comcast tower
-Philadelphia inquirer

New Jersey

New Jersey Assembly

eyes Expressway, Parkway,

Turnpike for increased revenue study

-South Jersey Times

New Jersey gas price hike

should be on table, Assembly

speaker tells newspaper

-Lehigh Valley Express-Times

Route 130 in BurlCo again deemed

deadliest road in NJ for pedestrians

-The Trentonian

Rutgers-NJTransit Partnership

Gets Riders with Disabilities

Where They Need to Go

-Rutgers Today

NJPIRG report: University campuses

like Rutgers are transportation trailblazers

-myCentralJersey.com

Alfred Doblin

Port Authority may prove Joe Biden right

-Bergen Record

Nation & World

Senate committee holds hearing
on MAP-21 reauthorization
-Progressive Railroading

Rep. Petri: Need for gas tax hike 'resonates'
-The Hill

T&I Chair Bill Shuster
Complicates Matters With
Push for VMT Fee
-StreetsBlog USA

Far Beyond Rush Hour:
The Incredible Rise of
Off-Peak Public Transportation
-The Atlantic Cities

The Difficulty of Mapping Transit 'Deserts'
-The Atlantic Cities

What Sets Apart the Places
Where People Walk More?
-StreetsBlog USA

The limited accessibility of public transport
-Mappable

What is walkability?
-Community Builders

Cities where no one wants to drive
-USA Today

Todd Litman
Planning too important to leave to planners
-Planetizen

Shaping our future cities: an art form
-LinkedIn

High Speed Rail-Go-Round

California high-speed rail
timeline unchanged despite setbacks
-San Francisco Examiner

Fresno's high-speed rail plans move forward
-abc30 Fresno, CA

Fresno firms land rail contracts
-TBJNow

CA GOP: Shift Gas Tax Revenues,
High-Speed Rail Bonds to Road,
Highway Projects
-capital public radio

Latest Calif. high-speed rail plan predicts
slight dip in cost, more ridership
-The Fresno Bee

Bullet train revenue estimates down,
ridership up in new business plan
-Los Angeles Times

California's HSR authority
awards right-of-way engineering,
survey contracts
-Progressive Railroading

Fort Wayne Commissioners
Make Informal Agreement To
Help Fund High-Speed Rail Study
-INCNow

Planes, trains and automobiles all want
our cash: How should we decide?
-Fort Wayne News-Sentinel

New York high-speed rail - A bleak future
-The Economist

Committee reviewing
high-speed rail proposal for Alberta
-Progressive Railroading

Regional Plan Assoc. Forum

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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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