The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (CA) is considering expanding all-door boarding to its bus fleet. Muni riders with Clipper cards or proof of payment already have the option to board light-rail vehicles through the back door. Now the agency is considering extending the policy to buses to speed up operations on crowded routes. TheRead… Read more »
Hey Everyone, Places for the Community Day are going fast with only a few places remaining. If you would like to book your place you can do so now by visiting the Learning Pool website. The event will be held on 14th September from 9am-4pm in the Camden Centre, London. Speakers on the day includeRead… Read more »
I’d like to share with you one of the best recent applications that also represents a good approach how to combine theoretical knowledge and practical background in one case. Here it is,Startup Genoma Compass that could become a very popular and efficient way to measure startup success and to define in what stage of developmentRead… Read more »
Join GovLoop and our partner IBM to learn how to use analytics to boost efficiency and cut costs in our next GovLoop training on 9/8 at 2pm – RSVP **************************************************************************************************************************************** I remember the first time I got excited about statistics. I was in an introductory to statistics class and was taught how to use SPSSRead… Read more »
From Monday 8/29 morning’s TSP Talk market commentary: Stocks opened sharply lower on Friday but investors seemed to find some positives from the Fed after the Ben Bernanke speech in Jackson Hole, WY. From Reuters on Ben Bernanke:“Although he said the Fed would consider what more it could do to boost growth — comments thatRead… Read more »
Last week, while most of the east coast was bracing for Hurricane Irene, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited the Department of Energy’s NREL facilities in Colorado on Thursday. The Secretary General spoke highly of the work being done at NREL, and expressed his desire to learn from NREL’s example, saying: “I’m here at NRELRead… Read more »
One of the most common complaints we received at the city where I used to work was sewer odors in homes or businesses. The callers always assumed it had to be caused by the city sewers, and therefore, they always requested that we flush our lines to solve the problem. So the city had adoptedRead… Read more »
Metra (IL) will no longer accept passes that customers have laminated because the plastic coating disables anti-counterfeiting features on the paper tickets. The concern surfaced when four counterfeit passes — all of which were laminated — were discovered on the Union Pacific North Line, which operates between Chicago and Kenosha (WI). “We consider these ticketsRead… Read more »
I can always go back to pushing bits of paper. And every time I do not believe I can make a difference I will watch this. And if that doesn’t work, I will come back to this post, this post that says these things we do and some things I have affected and some thingsRead… Read more »