By John McPhee
What John McPhee's books all have in universal is they are approximately actual humans in actual areas. right here, at his adventurous most sensible, he's out and approximately with those who paintings in freight transportation.
Over the previous 8 years, John McPhee has spent massive time within the corporation of people that paintings in freight transportation. unusual providers is his sketchbook of them and of his trips with them. He rides from Atlanta to Tacoma along Don Ainsworth, proprietor and operator of a sixty-five-foot,eighteen-wheel chemical tanker wearing hazmats. McPhee attends ship-handling college on a pond within the foothills of the French Alps, the place, for a university of $15,000 every week, skippers of the most important ocean ships refine their services in twenty-foot scale types. He is going up the "tight-assed" Illinois River on a "towboat" pushing a triple string of barges, the final vessel being "a good buy longer than the Titanic." And he travels by way of canoe up the canal-and-lock advertisement waterways traveled through Henry David Thoreau and his brother, John, in a home made skiff in 1839.
Uncommon vendors is vintage paintings through McPhee, in prose exceptional, as continually, by way of its author's hot humor, prepared perception, and wealthy feel of human personality.
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Agency Definition of Sustainability Progra ms/ Offices Highlighted Notes/Highlights Oregon Dep artment of Transportation (ODOT) Using, developing, and protecting resources in a manner that enables people to meet current needs while providing for future generations to meet their needs, from the joint perspective of environment, economic, and community objectives. • Sustainability Plan ODOT is institutionalizing the concept o f sustainability through the development of an integrated strategic sustainability program and an implemented sustainability plan.
Agency Definition of Sustainability Programs/Offices Highlighted Notes/Highlights California Department of Transportation Ensuring that environmental, social, health, and economic considerations are factored into decisions about transportation activities. • Smart Mobility Caltrans is managing many programs that relate to aspects of sustainability and span regional and statewide levels. They are relatively well advanced in measuring these concepts. The agency is working to begin to implement projects that will bring to fruition those goals and objectives identified in the strategic planning and policy documents.
Various other tools and resources, such as a compendium of performance measures (included in Appendix B and as an electronic spreadsheet on the CD-ROM that accompanies this 47 48 A Guidebook for Sustainability Performance Measurement for Transportation Agencies guidebook), a sustainability checklist, and information about existing performance measurement programs and best practices further support the guidance provided. The presentation materials included on the CD-ROM can also be used by your agency to develop an interactive workshop or gathering of a working group to develop performance measures.