New Library Materials
Items added during: August 2023
Contents:
- Information Extra
- How to request listed resources
- New Materials
- AASHTO Digital Publications
- Ebooks in the CloudLibrary Platform
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Information Extra
Collection Close-up: Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (print | ebook | e-audiobook)
Parking, quite literally, has a death grip on America: each year a handful of Americans are tragically killed by their fellow citizens over parking spots. But even when we don’t resort to violence, we routinely do ridiculous things for parking, contorting our professional, social, and financial lives to get a spot. Indeed, in the century since the advent of the car, we have deformed—and in some cases demolished—our homes and our cities in a Sisyphean quest for cheap and convenient car storage. As a result, much of the nation’s most valuable real estate is now devoted exclusively to empty and idle vehicles, even as so many Americans struggle to find affordable housing. Parking determines the design of new buildings and the fate of old ones, patterns of traffic and the viability of transit, neighborhood politics and municipal finance, the quality of public space, and even the course of floodwaters. Can this really be the best use of our finite resources and space? Why have we done this to the places we love? Is parking really more important than anything else?
These are the questions Slate staff writer Henry Grabar sets out to answer, telling a mesmerizing story about the strange and wonderful superorganism that is the modern American city. In a beguiling and often absurdly hilarious mix of history, politics, and reportage, Grabar brilliantly surveys the pain points of the nation’s parking crisis, from Los Angeles to Disney World to New York, stopping at every major American city in between. He reveals how the pathological compulsion for car storage has exacerbated some of our most acute problems—from housing affordability to the accelerating global climate disaster—ultimately, lighting the way for us to free our cities from parking’s cruel yoke.
Transportation Research Record
TRB’s journal Transportation Research Record is now published in digital-only format. Full text is available to MnDOT employees. Check out new articles or sign up for an alert at Transportation Research Record.
How to Request Listed Resources
To request an item below, please fill out the Ask a Librarian form. Each listing links to a digital copy if available.
ACCIDENT PREVENTION
Wrong-way driving solutions handbook
TRB NCHRP 1050
AIRPORTS
Automated pavement condition survey practices at airports
TRB ACRP SYN 124
ASPHALT
Ignition furnace correction factors: identifying influences and minimizing variability
TRB NCHRP 1060
AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Realistic Timing Estimates for Automated Vehicle Implementation
TRB NCHRP 1049
ELECTRIC VEHICLES
Identifying and optimizing electric vehicle corridor charging infrastructure for medium and heavy-duty trucks
TL220 .K53 2023
EQUITY
Centering the margins: the transportation experience of underserved communities
HE193 .F36 2023
MAINTENANCE
Enhancement of the practice for certification of inertial profiling systems
TRB NCHRP 1057
PARKING
Paved paradise: how parking explains the world
HE336.P37 G73 2023
PRESERVATION
AWPA book of standards, 2023 ed.
TA424 .A86x 2023
RIGHT OF WAY
Maximizing transportation assets by building community connection through innovative deployment of rights of way and airspace
HE336.U74 D68 2023
Acquiring utility property interests and reimbursing utility relocation costs: a guide
TRB NCHRP 1054
ROAD FINANCE
State highway system classification and investment: a survey of state practice
HE203 .L65 2012
TRAFFIC SAFETY
Highway safety behavioral strategies for rural and tribal areas: a guide
TRB BTSCRP 8
Improving MPO and SHSO coordination on behavioral traffic safety: guide and toolkit
TRB BTSCRP 7
TRANSPORTATION PLANNING
Integrating resilience concepts and strategies into transportation planning: a guide
TRB NCHRP 1052
TUNNELING
Critical findings for tunnel functional systems
TRB NCHRP SYN 607
WETLANDS
Stormwater pond maintenance, and wetland management for phosphorus retention
TD657 .J36 2023
New title added to AASHTO Digital Publications
The following is available from AASHTO. Instructions on how to access it can be found here.
AASHTO LRFD Movable Highway Bridge Design Specifications (3rd Edition, 2023)
New ebooks in the cloudLibrary platform
The Library's ebook collection requires a MnDOT Library ID to check out and read books. Contact the library using the Ask a Librarian form to request a MnDOT Library ID or if you have forgotten yours.
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World [ebook | e-audiobook]
The Psychological Safety Playbook: Lead More Powerfully by Being More Human [ebook | e-audiobook]
Lost Art of Connecting, The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Business Relationships
[e-audiobook]
Taking Charge of Adult ADHD: Proven Strategies to Succeed at Work, at Home, and in Relationships [ebook]
Succeeding With Adult ADHD: Daily Strategies to Help You Achieve Your Goals and Manage Your Life [ebook]
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