by Danny De Gracia II During last night’s mayoral debate, former Honolulu managing director Kirk Caldwell sarcastically asked retired Governor Ben Cayetano whether or not he would ask President Kennedy what his backup plan was in response to his challenge to go to the Moon. I think it’s worth reminding the former managing director of a few things: Funny Caldwell should mention going to the Moon, because the cost of a single Saturn V...

by Panos Prevedouros A well known transportation academic posed this question recently to other transportation experts. Failure he said. You decide the criteria. Failures could be big small, but not too small and localized. I am looking for projects, systems, technologies, or policies that have been failures. To provide a response in a general way, I had to define failure in a general way. So I defined it as “the usefulness of a...

Professor Roth’s remarks at Kapolei Hale on Feb. 28, 2012.  

by Cody Hensarling Honolulutraffic.com recently released an important commentary debunking the myth that rail usage is less energy-intensive than auto vehicles. The summary of the commentary as presented by Honolulutraffic: “Rail transit in New York is more energy efficient than your car. But you don’t live there. The Honolulu rail transit would be more energy efficient than your car when it would be coming into town in the morning...

Honolulu, HI – a panel of international, national and Hawai‘i experts will gather at the Mission Memorial Auditorium on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 from 12:30 pm to 4:00 pm to discuss development, major infrastructure projects, transportation and offer solutions to traffic congestion on O‘ahu. The American Dream Coalition (ADC) and the Small Business Hawai‘i Educational Foundation are co-sponsoring the conference that is free to the...