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Research Reports
Filter by Author20 report(s) found for Jon Mielke This report presents the findings and recommendations of a study commissioned by the City of Brookings to identify gaps between residents' personal mobility needs and existing services and to recommend actions, including opportunities to improve coordination among area service providers. The study included... In 2005, Congress enacted the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act - A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU). This highway funding legislation created a new Section 5311c program, which provided funding for Indian tribes and the provision of public transit programs serving small urban... This report analyzes the services provided by RCPT and assesses efforts that have been made to coordinate these services with other area service providers and human service agencies. Based on this assessment, the report's final sections present recommendations and implementation strategies related to... Turtle Mountain Reservation is located in Rolette County in extreme north central North Dakota. The reservation and surrounding tribal lands are densely populated and have more residents per square mile than Cass County, North Dakota's most populated county. Unemployment in the area is extremely high... This study reviewed the operations of eight state-run vanpool programs and another seven programs that are run by local units of government. This review focused on the size of each program, funding sources, passenger fares, and overall operations. Some of these services are run with in-house personnel... The study is part of a statewide strategic transportation plan adopted in 2002 by the NDDOT to provide a shared vision for North Dakota's transportation system. The plan's goals call for a transportation system that allows optimum personal mobility. One of the initiatives is the development of a statewide... This is a report on the study that Small Urban & Rural Transit Center conducted for North Dakota Department of Transportation. The study identified and evaluated the current coordination efforts including an inventory of transportation options in North Dakota and made recommendations on how the state... This report is an assessment of the impact that rail deregulation has had on the transportation of agricultural commodities, specifically the Staggers Rail Act of 1980. The purpose of this paper is to examine changes in the grain pricing practices of railroads in the Upper Great Plains pre- and post-Staggers. This paper will attempt to determine if any observable pricing practice changes have taken place and if product and geographic competition have been effective... This paper discusses several factors which influenced the implementation of multiple car rates in the Upper Great Plains. |
