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FRA Announces $5.3B in Rail Investments, Including $2B for Amtrak
Funding will support grade-crossing improvements, infrastructure upgrades, and new Amtrak equipment in 23 states.
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SEARCHMENUSEARCHFunding will support grade-crossing improvements, infrastructure upgrades, and new Amtrak equipment in 23 states.
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New study shows that higher revenue per room translates to a potential $313 million in revenue per year for “rail cities” — cities which have direct rail access to airport terminals.
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Will study the costs and benefits of Hop On Cincinnati, a downtown trolley bus system, as a potentially more affordable alternative.
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The $240 million reconstruction project, slated to begin in spring 2014, will create a facility that will serve as a community focal point and an anchor for economic opportunity on Chicago’s South Side.
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Executive-level professionals are retiring in greater numbers. Industry organizations and agencies are putting training and mentoring programs in place to instill leadership skills and attract and advance more women and young people. Young employees say more work is needed to raise the industry’s visibility to bring in talent.
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The Airport TRAX, which has six stations, is now on full schedule, with trains from downtown to the airport running every 15 minutes on weekdays and every 20 minutes on weekends. It travels at speeds up to 60 miles per hour.
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We visit a sampling of projects, from Maryland MTA’s Purple Line, which was approved to be delivered via public-private partnership, to Perth, Australia, where a 14-mile network is being planned.
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The STMMerci app uses precision marketing to provide local event and product offers exclusive to transit riders based on their preferences and locations.
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The deaths of two track workers forced BART to end its “simple approval” method that allowed workers to walk along the tracks in pairs, with one person serving as the lookout.
Read More →Using information from the study conducted by the agency and MBA candidates from Boston University could help MBTA bring in more revenue, and possibly, offset some of the agency’s debt.
Read More →Overall, 2013 companies on Deloitte's list achieved revenue growth ranging from 137% to 208,897% from 2008 to 2012, with an average growth of 2,600%.
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