Walking Through Black History Digital Humanities Project

The focus of the project was to illustrate African American history including four periods: Antebellum, Reconstruction, Jim Crow and Civil Rights. We focused on choosing sites that could illustrate that history most effectively, noting that the Reconstruction era is often the most challenging of the four periods in that it is short-lived with little material culture left

0-6891: Using Public Transportation to Facilitate Last Mile Package Delivery [Project Summary]

0-6891Commerce and quality of life in Texas depend on the daily delivery of millions of tons of goods shipped efficiently and affordably over Texas\u2019 multimodal freight transportation system. Continued growth of business to consumer e-commerce has increased demand for package shipping services, and rural areas face a particular challenge in finding efficient last-mile delivery of goods (from freight drop to final destination). The network of rural transit agencies and intercity bus carriers may effectively bridge the last-mile gap in package shipping from the freight drop point to the final destination by providing last-mile package delivery services in exchange for a service fee