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On February 28, Dr. Yingling Fan, McKnight Land-Grant Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, will be leading a seminar at the NCSG on the effects of investments in light rail on access to jobs, social equity and regional economic development.  The presentation will be held at 3:30 PM in 1112 Preinkert Fieldhouse.

The Maryland Port Administration (MPA)/Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) announced today that it is providing funding to enhance the Mid-Atlantic Dray Truck Replacement Program, which is funded by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and administered by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Air Management Association (MARAMA) and the University of Maryland Environmental Finance Center.

At the 91^st Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, NCSG researchers presented a number of papers as a part of findings from various studies. The authors of these papers include Sabyasachee Mishra, Timothy Welch, Fred Ducca, and Chao Liu.

Maryland planners, developers and land-use advocates consider the state’s smart growth tools too weak to overcome citizen opposition and regulatory barriers, frustrating their desire for development within existing urban areas, finds a new University of Maryland study based on interviews with a representative group of stakeholders.

Research Assistant Professor Sabyasachee Mishra, Ph.D., has been awarded a research grant from the Maryland State Highway Administration. Dr. Mishra will create a freight mode and route choice model for alleviating freight congestion in Maryland. Transportation Policy Research Group Senior Research Scientist Frederick W. Ducca, Ph.D., will serve as co-principal investigator on the project.