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Monthly changes in key transportation indexes

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Sources of the underlying data: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (sales of cars and light trucks). Bureau of Transportation Statistics (revenue passenger miles). Bureau of Labor Statistics (Consumer Price Index). Energy Information Administration (price of gasoline). Census Bureau (population).

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Study: no one knows which city has the highest concentration of PM2.5

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Efforts to fill in monitoring gaps with estimates from satellite remote sensing, chemical transport modeling, and statistical models have biases at individual monitor locations that can exceed 50??g?m Chemical Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis and lead author.

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US Public Transit Ridership in 2008 At Highest Level in 52 years; 10.7B Trips

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billion trips on public transportation in 2008, the highest level of ridership in 52 years and a modern ridership record, according to a report released by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA). in 2008, according to the US Department of Transportation. in 2008, according to the US Department of Transportation.

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US total VMT hits historic high in first half of year; VMT per capita trending upward, but below 2005 peak

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However, on a per capita basis (non-institutional population), VMT, although it has been trending upward for the last year on a 12-month moving average, is still below its peak in June 2005, according to the Federal Reserve Economic Data ( FRED ) database from the Federal Reserve Bank of St.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Interlisp, the language Teitelman had nurtured for 15 years, also was transported to the Dorado, where it was the basis for a research effort that has now grown into the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at PARC.

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