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Commute
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How the World Commutes
The latest results from Statista’s Global Consumer Survey have revealed how people around the world commute to work, school or…
How To Travel Around The City For Less
Getting around a major city centre can be very expensive – especially if you’re doing it day-in, day-out…
How You Can Keep Yourself Entertained While Travelling Through Your City
If you are travelling through your city to get to where you need to be then, you will…
Where US Commuters Spend The Most Time Stuck In Traffic
The commuters of Los Angeles experience the worst traffic conditions in the United States. This is based on…
A Better Daily Commute Is Possible – Just Ask Residents In These Cities
Public transport plays a vital role in cities around the world, connecting people to their jobs, schools and…
Stuck In Traffic? Productive Things You Can Do While In Your Car
For most people, congested traffic is a daily scenario when going to classes or to work. This problem…
Which US Cities Make It Easiest To Commute Without A Car?
A new study examines 20 American cities and finds most are sorely lacking in non-car ways to get…
The Urban Commute Reimagined As A Rhythmic Subterranean Ritual
New York City’s legendary, and recently much-beleaguered, subway is one of the largest, oldest and most heavily trafficked…
How Much It Really Costs You To Drive To Work
With more and more workers moving to the cities, megaregions are expanding, and as they grow, so do…
Top 10 Cities In The US If Public Transport Is Your Thing
According to the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, the average auto commuter in the United States spends 42 hours…
How Portland Is Paving Ways For The Safest Cyclist Intersections
Researchers at Portland State hope to be the first to develop standard guidelines for protected bike lane crossings.…
What Long-Distance Trains Teach Us About Public Space In America
“What people don’t like about the train is the time lapse. People don’t have time to tie their…
What Makes People Use Public Transport?
As traffic congestion continues growing in urban areas, more and more cities have realized that investment priority should…
How Americans Get To Work
The way that people get around can say a lot about how a place is made up. In…
The 5 Best States For Driving
Bankrate’s recently released “Best and Worst States for Drivers” rankings place Minnesota at number five spot. The Bankrate…
How Transportation Nourishes And Shapes Urban Communities
It is estimated that by 2050, two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities. Denser cities and…
The Transportation Choices That Millennials Want
To attract young professionals, cities increasingly are going to have to think multi-modal. With no long-term solution in…
How Car-Centric Cities Like Phoenix Learned To Love Light Rail
While other cities have struggled to finance their existing transit, Sun Belt cities like Phoenix have embraced light…
Why So Many Want Yet So Few Ride Mass Transit
Closing the support-usage gap will be key to a strong public transportation future. Every transit advocate knows this…
Hacking Your Ride For The Next Generation Transit Tools
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority hosts the three-month challenge to hunt for new transit tech beyond the…
How To Caffeinate Your Bus Commute Creatively
Transportation start-up Leap has launched a high-end public bus service in San Francisco that has everything on board…
What Cities Can Do to Increase the Use of Alternative Transport
A few weeks ago, we invited people to share their thoughts with us about what their cities could…
How Transit Mismanagement Drives Poverty
Trains of the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) are “five times more deadly” than those in other countries, an…
Mumbai Metro: Your Credit Card Is Now Your Fare Card
Every second counts when you’re racing to catch a bus or a train, and stopping to buy or…
Jeff Speck : The Walkable City
How do we solve the problem of the suburbs? Urbanist Jeff Speck shows how we can free…
These Ads Will Make You Want To Ride The Public Transit
Different cities all over the world have their own unique modes of public transport and riding them need…
All The Ways Germany Is Less Car-Reliant Than The U.S., In 1 Chart
There are rather a lot of ways, as it turns out. For two Western powers with comparable wealth,…
The One Chart That Explains All Your Traffic Woes
When we build more roads, we invite more cars. If you’ve ever found yourself stuck in traffic in…
Throwback Thursday : Seattle In Transit
Definitive motor ways of the past pave way for the future. As a city that’s had plenty of…
Around The Tube In 2 Minutes
It’s a living, breathing transit map. Have you ever spent your commute on public transit feeling not unlike…
What Your Nearest Transit Station Says About Your Income
New visualisations map household income by rail stops in Chicago, Portland, Atlanta and D.C. A city’s transit system…
Using Beijing Subway Makes You Smarter, Literally
Riders can stop playing Angry Birds and download something a bit more enriching. On the subway in Beijing,…
How Overlooked Colonial Railways Could Revolutionize Transportation In Africa
Resurrecting relics of imperial rule is an unorthodox transit-development policy. But Africa’s “secondary cities” are set to benefit.…
Cars And Robust Cities Are Fundamentally Incompatible
50 years ago, experts predicted automobiles would drain the life from urban areas. Their predictions are coming true.…
Design Lessons From These Superb BRT Stations
Ideas that help distinguish the service from a regular old bus. The United States has a lot to…