Tag: public transportation

September 21, 2018

Of the many acronyms engineers spend their lives internalizing, few are more valuable than KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid. Constrain the problem, reduce the variables, and make life as easy as possible when designing novel systems — like, say, a […]

August 31, 2018

North Carolina legislators don’t exactly have a track record of supporting projects related to clean tech, mass transit or sustainable development. In fact, from banning planners from using future sea level rise projections to battling with tech giants over the […]

April 11, 2018

UBER: IT’S NOT just for cars anymore. Less than a decade after launching, it has rolled out rides for the normies (UberX), for those who don’t mind sharing (UberPool), and for those who don’t mind walking (Uber Express Pool). It […]

February 21, 2018

TODAY, UBER IS launching its latest innovation in ride-hailing, one it has spent the past year spinning up. There’s new tech architecture, a novel user interfaces, and in-app intro schemes to teach the rider how to use the new service. […]

January 31, 2018

THIS IS HOW quickly transportation has changed in urban America. In July 2010, a service called UberCab went live in San Francisco—that’s fewer than eight years ago. Washington, DC’s Capital Bikeshare, the country’s largest bike-sharing program, really got off the […]

September 26, 2017

As the Paris climate change agreement was being put together, debated, and finalized in December 2015, it was becoming increasingly clear that cities would be an important, if not essential, factor in whether nations could meet their greenhouse gas reduction […]

June 28, 2017

The hype and unsubstantiated hope behind the self-driving car movement continues unabated, distracting from addressing necessities of old “mobilities” such as inadequate public transit and upgrading highway and rail infrastructure. At a conference on Driverless Cars sponsored by the George […]

May 3, 2017

Almost nine in 10 Americans (88 percent) recognize public transportation systems provide a wide array of benefits to the communities they serve, according to a new HNTB Corp. America THINKS public opinion survey. The survey, Public Transportation-2017, found 83 percent […]

March 7, 2017

BRINGING BRIDJ TO Kansas City seemed like a no-brainer to transit officials. For just $1.50, anyone could use an app to summon a ride downtown in van that would follow a route calculated on the fly by an algorithm. No […]

February 23, 2017

Caltrain, which connects riders from San Francisco to the Silicon Valley hub of San Jose, currently carries approximately 60,000 riders a day. Making the trains electric would increase ridership, save money on operating costs and help the environment, advocates for […]

January 24, 2017

Data has transformed all manner of industries, and the transport industry is no exception. That’s the conclusion of a recent report from the Urban Transport Group. “Emerging data will mean transport users will become far more fully informed about their […]

January 3, 2017

IN THE WORLD of gigantic infrastructure projects, there’s a fair amount of “hurry up and wait.” Cost overruns, construction delays, unforeseen hiccups—it’s all de rigueur in this multi-billion dollar space. The worldwide economic slump that began in 2008 did not […]

December 15, 2016

The Utah Transit Authority (UTA) awarded New Flyer a contract for up to 35 (or 70 equivalent units or EUs) 60-foot New Flyer Xcelsior® diesel-electric hybrid buses. The contract includes a firm order for 25 (50 EUs) 60-foot diesel-electric hybrid […]