Thursday, December 11, 2008

The Upside of High Oil Prices: Part 2, Long-term Effects

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The U.S. and several other countries are in an economic recession which was caused in part by the extraordinary increase of crude oil prices...

The Upside of High Oil Prices: Part 1, Short-term Effects

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The U.S. and several other countries are in an economic recession which was caused in part by the extraordinary increase of crude oil prices...
Tuesday, December 9, 2008

The EZWay Transportation Plan for Oahu

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The basic goals of this plan are to provide (a) substantial congestion relief largely caused at the H-1/H-2 and H-1/Moanalua freeway merges ...
Monday, December 8, 2008

UH-Manoa Announces Competition on Sustainability

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I am thrilled that the UHM has put sustainability front and center with today’s announcement of an internal $1,000,000 research competition,...

Some Options for Architects Who Dislike Traditional Elevated Rail

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The architects’ society, AIA Honolulu, drafted comments on the rail DEIS. Basically they are in favor of the rail concept but they do not w...
Wednesday, December 3, 2008

20 Simple but Important Questions for the Rail DEIS

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The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) of the City’s proposed rail system is the document that should provide answers to all reason...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Care about Oahu’s Energy Dependency? Look into Cars not Rail

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Fossil fuel energy dependency and “carbon footprint” (a 21st century moniker for air pollution and green house gasses) are major concerns of...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

Policy and Infrastructure: A New Course for Civil Engineerring Majors at UH-Manoa

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CEE 491 – Policy and Infrastructure Dr. Panos D. Prevedouros Spring 2009 Infrastructure is a rather complex and not-so-clearly defined word....
Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Is 50.6% a Win for Rail?

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Official results for Oahu can be found from the state office of elections: http://hawaii.gov/elections/results/2008/general/files/cch.pdf O...
Sunday, November 2, 2008

Proposed 19 Mile Rail for Oahu. Bottom Line Benefit: 1% Increase in Transit Trips

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Since 2006 I have been saying that the proposed rail on Oahu is nothing short of a joke. The just-released 2008 Draft Environmental Impact ...
Saturday, November 1, 2008

Does Rail Stimulate Long Term Urban Growth and Development?

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Proponents of rail argue that billions of dollars of development will occur along a rail line and they offer multibillion dollar estimates ...
Friday, October 31, 2008

Initial Comments on the City Released Untitled and Undated Draft EIS Summary

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This document is endless blah-blah with very few project specific numbers. Cost has escalated from $3.7 billion in 2006 to $4.8 billion in c...
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Pavement Maintenance

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Hawaii at 0.39, had the second lowest score in the nation in Interstate Pavement Serviceability in 2004. The average score of Pavement Serv...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Letter to U.S. DOT Secretary Mary Peters

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I assisted Cliff Slater of Honolulutraffic.com in preparing this important letter to U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Mary Peters...
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InfraConsult Goes Ballistic about the EZWay

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InfraConsult is a private company hired by the Mufi administration to manage the rail project. Mike Scheider of InfraConsult recently wrote...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

The Power of Performance-Driven Criteria

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Performance Driven Contracting is one of several techniques and technologies in contracting and construction that enable faster and less co...
Sunday, October 19, 2008

How Little We Know about Mufi's Rail

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Of course it is my strong recommendation that Honolulu registered voters vote NO in the city charter amendment asking for the establishment ...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Mufi Misrepresentation about BRT

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In a Honolulu Advertiser-sponsored debate on October 15, 2008 at the Plaza Club, Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann explicitly mentioned that FTA...

6 Questions for the EZWay

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A past governor of the State of Hawaii sent me a half dozen questions about the EZWay Transportation Solution that I developed in collabora...