On Tuesday, a panel of city staff and outside experts engaged Flagstaff City Council in an informative discussion on “The Big Shift,� a term used to describe a transformative approach to transportation management.
The Big Shift represents a move toward strategies of transportation management that empower multi-modal use (modes other than automobiles) and utilizes the latest modeling to evaluate infrastructural design.
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