Browsing Tag
Transportation
187 posts
Transportation (Human-Powered. Animal-Powered. Car. Bus. Train. Boat. Commute.) related materials.
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…
The Most Walkable Cities In Texas
When it comes to walkable cities, Texas tends to get a failing grade. It’s well-deserved: compared with cities…
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…
Your Perfect Home In Singapore, Depends On You – A Quick Guide
Deciding where to live is, aside from selecting a school, the biggest single decision that keeps expats awake…
Uber Rides Against Drag Of Fines And Regulations In California
A California judge has ordered Uber to pay $7.3 million for failing to provide certain data requested by…
Where Cars Of The Future Must Pass Through First
It’s like a dream world for children obsessed with toy cars—and scientists obsessed with auto inventions. On July…
How NYC Transit Leverages Analytics For Better Services
New York City Transit Uses Analytics to Improve Service to Public To make sense of all the data…
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…
How Ford Innovation Center Tackles Transportation Tech
As cities grow more congested, Ford wants to be there for customers whether they buy, rent or share…
How To Create A Sustainable Community With Public Works
Communities both big and small are having a sustainable makeover in order to reduce energy demand, utilise renewable…
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 Public Transport And Bikes Can Co-Exist On Streets
A design solution known as the “floating” bus stop is gaining attention in U.S. cities. It’s one of…
Driverless Pods Could Reduce Traffic Congestion In India
This futuristic “personal rapid transit” network would deliver passengers right to their doors. Now they just need the…
How Transit Mismanagement Drives Poverty
Trains of the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) are “five times more deadly” than those in other countries, an…
How Public Feedback Transformed Auckland’s Bus Shelters
Auckland bus shelters are set for a new design following public feedback. During July and August 2014 Auckland…
Enjoying Mobility In Stuttgart
Stuttgart has set an aspiring goal when it comes to mobility on two wheels: the long term, the…
Well Done Vancouver! Well Done Planners!
Much of my life’s work is based on the optimistic assumptions that people are basically intelligent and so…
The Shortest Paths To Happiness
Figuring out how to walk quickly from A to B is easy. Just plug two addresses into your…
Why Our Cities Need Smart Transport
The reform of urban mobility remains one of the biggest challenges confronting policy makers around the world. According…
New App Touts Cheaper Parking In Chicago
Parking in Chicago is bad. With the privatization of its parking meters and its reputation as one of…
Great Transit : Boon To Local Businesses
Jobs are moving back into city centers, but there’s still an awful lot of them in the urban…
Easy To Praise Smaller Cities, Harder To Fix Large Ones
The mayors of Latin America’s biggest cities gathered in Buenos Aires for the C40 forum to discuss their…
Cooler Cities With Electric Vehicles
EVs are not only greener, they also could alleviate sweltering city summers. Conventional cars produce a lot of…
How Hong Kong’s Subway Turns A $2 Billion Annual Profit
You can find one of Hong Kong’s most profitable businesses about 30 meters below the earth’s surface. The…
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…
Every City Should Have Something Like San Francisco’s Mass Transit Access Map
It lets you see exactly how much of the city you can reach in a given time window.…
Copenhagen’s Cycling Innovation
From ‘green wave’ traffic lights and majestic harbour bike bridges to digital countdowns and foot rests at junctions,…
The Next-Generation Airport Is A Destination In Its Own Right
Why the new Indianapolis terminal will be a model for others to come. INDIANAPOLIS—Robert Chicas is old enough…
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.…
7 Cities That Are Starting To Go Car-Free
Urban planners are finally recognising that streets should be designed for people, not careening hunks of deadly metal.…
What Old Transit Maps Can Teach Us About A City’s Future
An analysis of once-rejected, later-constructed routes in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Houston. Houston, Atlanta, and Los Angeles are…
Why Can’t Public Transit Be Free?
The main goal of transportation that costs riders nothing—getting people out of their cars—can’t be achieved by eliminating…
Smartphone: The Transport Innovation Of The Decade
In a previous New York City mayoral election, supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis bragged that he was the only…
Communities Of The Future Will Be Organised on Transportation
The era of transit-oriented development and “networked livable communities” has arrived. The Great Recession has fundamentally changed the…
5 Crucial Principles For 21st Century Transportation Systems
Handling tomorrow’s mega-trends means rethinking today’s infrastructure. Over the rest of the 21st century, cities will face many…
A Guide To Safer Streets and Simple Rules – Courtesy of New York City
In the past decade or so, New York has seen a considerable decline in traffic fatalities (30 percent…
Within Walking Distance
New research from Southern California has found that residents of neighborhoods with a central core of shops and…