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Analysis:CA HSR's job-creating figures fall short of promise! Legislators who support the 520-mile high-speed rail plan in California have explained that its $99 billion cost is justified because creating the network would create 1 million jobs. A review by the San Jose Mercury News indicates that only 20,000 to 60,000 jobs would be created. There's no way it could be a million, writes Mike Rosenberg. The workers "would have to cram shoulder-to-shoulder just to fit along the rail line between San Francisco and Anaheim," he says. |
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TRANSPORTATION NEWS Airports and highways in the U.S. are already congested, and by 2050, there will be another 100 million people in America. Those facts, and a depressed economy, mean now is the time to borrow to purchase rights of way for high-speed rail and create jobs, writes John Rosenthal. "Investment in rail is a step toward energy independence," and "abandoning this cost-effective, energy-efficient, environmentally friendly, revenue-generating grand vision would be a mistake we would regret for generations," he argues. Learn More.
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(image description.:Black line shows laser scanning) ICT’s study found that 3-D laser scanning realized “significant man-hour savings over traditional surveying.” Scanning took 18 man-hours/mile while the conventional method took 28 man-hours/mile. Learn More. MESSAGE FROM THE T&DIPRESIDENT On behalf of the Transportation and Development Institute (T&DI) Board of Governors and staff, wishing all a prosperous New Year. WOMEN IN ENGINEERING Women comprise more than 20% of engineering school graduates, but only 11% of practicing engineers are women, despite decades of academic, federal, and employer interventions to address this gender gap. Project on Women Engineers’ Retention (POWER) was designed to understand factors related to women engineers’ career decisions. Over 3,700 women who had graduated with an engineering degree responded to our survey and indicated that the workplace climate was a strong factor in their decisions to not enter engineering after college or to leave the profession of engineering. Workplace climate also helped to explain current engineers’ satisfaction and intention to stay in engineering. Learn More.
Construction is under way to fill two missing highway links in a route that connects Kenya and Ethiopia. The two countries see the project as a way to strengthen both their transport network and economic integration. Learn More. T&DI Committee Meeting Schedule during Transportation Research Board week Jan. 22, 2012 Public Transport 9-4:00pm, Hilton, Kalorama T&DI COMMITTEE REPORT |
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Riding High-Speed Rail to a U.S. Recovery
ICT Research Project Selected as one of Nation’s 16 Highest Value 
Ali A. Selim, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE 
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