Innovation Heightened Utility and Deployment (iHUD)

Innovation can be seen from...

Innovation and Research Council (IRC)

What is the IRC?

On June 1, 2021, the Innovation and Research Council...

Innovation and Research

Program...

Denver Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Vision Zero Rapid Response Program

Summary

This document highlights Denver’s Department of Transportation and Infrastructure (DOTI) Rapid Response program (RR Program or RR team) and shows how the program takes a systemic approach to safety and aligns with the Safe System principles to achieve Vision Zero in Denver.

Idea Champions

For a thesis on the role of ideas in the public policy process, researcher Ron Fraser conducted interviews in 1992-1994 with 36 participants in the creation of ISTEA. One of his conclusions was that certain concepts, such as flexibility, were generally accepted by all parties. What was needed...

Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan on the Signing of ISTEA

From remarks by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Senate on January 30, 1992, regarding the Secret Service:

In the State of the Union Address, the president referred to the Surface Transportation Act, which he signed on Dec. 18 in a gulch outside Fort Worth, where a...

A Bush at Both Ends: Before and After the Interstate Era

When President Dwight D. Eisenhower's plan for building the Interstate System and other highways was under consideration in Congress in 1955 and 1956, one of his leading supporters was Senator Prescott Bush of Connecticut.

An imposing figure, Bush stood 6 feet 4 inches tall and had a...

President Ronald Reagan and the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987

The Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987 (STURAA) was widely seen in Congress and the transportation community as the last authorization bill of the Interstate era. The Interstate System was 97.5 percent open to traffic (41,759 miles of the 42,797 designated...

Major Proposals to Restructure the Highway Program

Reprinted, with permission of the Eno Transportation Foundation, Washington, DC, from Transportation Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 1, January 1991 (pages 55-66). Copyright 1991 Eno Transportation Foundation.

Elizabeth Parker

Ms. Parker has been...

Two Bay Area Bridges - The Golden Gate and San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge, the symbol of San Francisco, is not on the Interstate System. It carries U.S. 101 across the bay.

On June 14, 1846, Captain John Frémont declared California's independence from Mexico. He had no right to do so, but he nevertheless raised the banner of the Bear...