Failure to Act: The Economic Impact of Current Investment Trends in Water and Wastewater Treatment Infrastructure is a first of its kind report that looks at the economic costs associated with failing to maintain the nation’s aging water delivery and wastewater treatment infrastructure.  The focus of this report is on the pipes, treatment plants, pumping stations, and other infrastructure that make up the nation’s public drinking-water and wastewater systems.

EDR Group's Glen Weisbrod spoke in front an international audience at the 39th annual European Transport Conference, held 10/10/10-10/12/11 in Glascow, Scotland. Weisbrod spoke on "Defining Economic Impact and Benefit Metrics from Multiple Perspectives: Lessons to be Learned from Both Sides of the Atlantic."  Visit the Conference Website

EDR Group, with assistance from Howard/Stein-Hudson, organized and produced two Panama Canal Expansion Study listening sessions in San Francisco and New York City in late September,  presented by the US Department of Transportation and Maritime Administration.

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July 27, 2011: Today, the American Society of Civil Engineers released a report, entitled "Failure to Act: The Economic Impact of Current Investment Trends In Surface Transportation Infrastructure," which was a study performed by EDR Group.

For the Strategic Highway Research Program (Project SHRP2-C32), EDR Group was recently awarded a research project designed to enhance the continuing management and operation of TPICS products. 

Midwest High Speed Rail Association released study titled  "The Economic Impacts of High Speed Rail: Transforming the Midwest," featuring economic impact analysis performed by EDR Group.  The full technical report is now available.

The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) recently awarded its 2011 Grand Prize to the South Coast Rail Economic Development and Land Use Corridor Project, in which EDR Group was part of the team.

The Marlborough Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) announced that it selected a consultant team that includes EDR Group, to assist in the preparation of an economic development master plan. 

The United States Maritime Administration (MARAD) recently awarded EDR Group a major study of Panama Canal Expansion... 

Steven Fitzroy presentation to the US High Speed Rail Association, November 2010.

Glen Weisbrod presentation to a Symposium on Transportation Policy, Northwestern University.  Nov. 2010.

EDR Group develops report on Transportation Investment and the Massachusetts Economy, July 2010.