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This Week

Daytime Populations on the Rise
Interior Biologists Told to Fundraise
Senate Returns P-Card Purchase Limits to Pre-Katrina Levels
Pilot Program Tracks Drivers' Speed, Location Via Cell Phones
AFV Expo to Fuel Economic Solutions
State Replaces Trees Cut to Kill Beetles
News of the Weird

Features

Daytime Populations on the Rise

If it seems a little crowded on weekdays in cities like Washington, D.C.; Irvine, CA; Salt Lake City, UT; or Orlando, FL; it’s not your imagination. Among cities with 100,000 or more people, these four show the highest percentage increases in population during the day as opposed to their resident population.

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Interior Biologists Told to Fundraise

The U.S. Department of Interior has told its elite ecological scientists that they have to raise 20 percent of their own salaries and research funds from outside sources.

Senate Returns P-Card Purchase Limits to Pre-Katrina Levels

The Senate has approved a measure coauthored by Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Susan Collins and Ranking Member Joseph Lieberman that will help reduce waste and abuse in federal expenditures.

News

Pilot Program Tracks Drivers' Speed, Location Via Cell Phones

The Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) launched the Multi-Modal Travelers Information Systems (MMTIS) as a pilot program with Delcan National Engineering Technology six months ago. MMTIS is the first large-scale cell phone mining program in the nation, in which communications between cell phones and towers is used to provide real-time traffic data. Presently in use in the Baltimore area, MMTIS lets the SHA know the location of traffic problems and how fast the cars are moving. Moreover, MMTIS makes it easy to pinpoint and clear accidents and determine where to concentrate road-improvement funds. Though MMTIS does not provide information about individual cell phone users, critics of cell phone mining worry that the practices could eventually be used by law enforcement agencies. The two-year, $5.7 million pilot project is being funded by Delcan, the I-95 Corridor Coalition, and federal grants.

Source: The National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC).

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AFV Expo to Fuel Economic Solutions

Plan to attend the Clean Cities Congress and Expo 2006, an international event hosted by the Alternative Fuel Vehicle Institute and Arizona Clean Cities, May 7-10, 2006, in Phoenix, AZ. The gathering promises to be the largest alternative fuel and advanced vehicle technology event in the country, if not the world.

For more information, visit: www.afvi.org

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State Replaces Trees Cut to Kill Beetles

Thousands of trees in New Jersey that were removed when they were infested with Asian longhorned beetles will new be replaced. The reforestation will take place on streets and residential properties.

The tree planting project is part of the first phase of the $1.6 million reforestation effort to replace the 5,400 trees. The project is funded through a grant supplied by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service.

Source: Environmental News Service.

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