Ergebnis für "Transit" in Geschichte

is a production of Working Group 6 of the HIDDEN COST Action, directed by Jennifer Redmond. HIDDEN — The History of Identity Documentation in European Nations connects past and present to explore how identity documents shape access to rights, citizenship, mobility, and belonging, and how documentation systems can both enable and restrict lives.This project is supported by COST — European Cooperation in Science and Technology, a funding agency for research and innovation networks that connects researchers across Europe and supports collaboration and knowledge-sharing. COST is funded by the ...

This podcast tells the story of the Transportation Justice Leadership Grant cohort program in Washington State. Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) in partnership with Front and Centered join forces to bring together 19 community-based organizations across the state to develop community-led solutions to reduce carbon emissions.

In the nineteenth century, Manhattan's streets were so choked with pedestrians, horses, vehicles, and vendors that a trip from City Hall to Central Park could take hours. Alfred Beach had the perfect solution: build a giant pneumatic tube underneath Broadway from the Battery to Harlem. Air pressure would shoot passengers up and down the island in clean, quiet carriages. But Beach was up against the operators of the horse-drawn streetcars and the politicians in their pay, most conspicuously William M. Tweed, the notorious "Boss" of Tammany Hall.

Mass Motorization and Mass Transit examines how the United States became the world's most thoroughly motorized nation and why mass transit has been more displaced in the United States than in any other advanced industrial nation. The book's historical and international perspective provides a uniquely effective framework for understanding both the intensity of US motorization and the difficulties the country will face in moderating its demands on the world's oil supply and reducing the CO2 emissions generated by motor vehicles.

The Podcast where we discuss all things transit. Join us as we dive into transit systems across the US, bring you interviews with experts and advocates, and engage in some fun and exciting challenges along the way.

Der neue Podcast zu zentralen Aspekten der Migrationsgeschichte!

Two or more people talking about transport history, news, and opinions