new! Meet Personal Transit: How the internet and information technology can reshape transportation

Modern information technologies have transformed just about every facet of our daily lives—except transportation.  In most respects, America's system of automotive transportation remains stuck in the 1950s.  Mass transit has changed even less.  But despite the inertia of large government transportation agencies and the auto industry, surprising innovations are arising in the nonprofit world.  Personnel in one local transportation agency have worked hard to keep seniors and people with disabilities independent—and in the process have learned a lot about how to offer mobility to entire communities. more >

Reshaping Our Infrastructure for the New California

California’s transportation and energy infrastructure are like living systems, going through stages of growth, maturity and decline. After 50 years, the California infrastructure that was created in the 1950s and 1960s is approaching maturity. The systems reached maximum capacity years ago. Now, California must renovate and modify them to meet 21st-Century needs.

California is a leader in passing clean energy resolutions and devising solutions to respond to transportation problems. Now, government and citizens need to start implementing them. To do that, habits must be changed.  more>

Governors Earl Warren and Pat Brown invested large sums of money in the transportation, energy, water, communications and educational infrastructure that accommodated California’s rapid post-World War II growth. Their leadership enabled a way of life that helped make our state the envy of much of the world.

Today, however, California suffers from traffic congestion, rolling energy blackouts, growing air pollution and struggling schools. Clearly, California needs a new vision and strategy to build the infrastructure to fuel its growth and preserve quality of life for the next 50 years. more >