MnDOT Library Alert: Sustainability, Public Health, and Transportation

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Sustainability, Public Health, and Transportation

Stakeholder Meeting: Minnesota Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Deployment Plan 

October 13, 2022

2:30 – 4:00 PM

Virtual – via WebEx. Please register here.

The Joint Office of Energy and Transportation and Federal Highway Administration approved the Minnesota Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Deployment Plan on Wednesday, September 14, 2022. Join us to hear about next steps for implementing the plan and how you can get involved. The meeting will be designed for potential implementation partners but is open to the public to attend. Additional details and agenda to follow. Please register here.

Recent news curated by MnDOT Library

SUSTAINABILITY

AV news: goMARTI in Minnesota launches and WRTA selects partners for AV pilot

goMARTI is first public transit project using ADA-compliant AVs in rural America

Mass Transit (September 29, 2022)

 

'It makes climate change real': How carbon emissions got rebranded as 'pollution'

Grist (September 29, 2022)

 

Gas station owners, charging companies oppose Xcel Energy’s electric vehicle charging plan

Minnesota Reformer (September 28, 2022)

 

Hertz is teaming up with oil giant BP to install thousands of EV chargers in the U.S.

CNBC (September 27, 2022)

 

States get final OK to build highway EV charging network

Associated Press (September 27, 2022)

 

Registrations for electric, hybrid vehicles increase at high rate in Wisconsin

WTMJ Milwaukee (September 26, 2022)

 

Minnesota's transition to electric vehicles is long and bumpy

Star Tribune via Mass Transit (September 25, 2022)

 

"It's coming full circle": State leaders look to Indigenous communities for climate solutions

WCCO CBS Minnesota (September 22, 2022)

 

Highway 56 construction plan moves forward

Adding a bike lane

KTTC (September 22, 2022)

 

PUBLIC HEALTH

Bus shelter drug use sparking concerns in Minneapolis

WCCO CBS Minnesota (September 28, 2022)

 

Klobuchar, State Patrol target distracted drivers

Minnesota Public Radio News (September 26, 2022)

 

Blaine becomes first MN city to make street racing illegal

KARE11 (September 26, 2022)

 

Biking while high on meth, opioids is sending thousands to ER

U.S. News & World Report (September 26, 2022)

 

Fatal crash renews calls for change at problematic Arden Hills intersection

Star Tribune (September 25, 2022)

 

Neighbors push for changes at 'dangerous' St. Paul intersection

KSTP (September 25, 2022)

 

Related materials from MnDOT Library

Charging infrastructure access and operation to reduce the grid impacts of deep electric vehicle adoption (open access; Nature Energy, September 22, 2022)

Transportation Insecurity in the United States: A Descriptive Portrait (open access; Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, September 2022)

Minnesota Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Plan (MnDOT, July 2022)

Developing Countermeasures to Decrease Pedestrian Deaths (Center for Transportation Research, University of Texas at Austin, August 2022)

Developing Countermeasures to Decrease Pedestrian Deaths: Guidebook (Center for Transportation Research, University of Texas at Austin, August 2022)

Energy State Bill Tracking Database (National Conference of State Legislatures, updated July 20, 2022)

 

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