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Posts Tagged: transit
How Can Mobility as a Service Enable Smart Cities?
Cities everywhere are coping with increased urbanization, and are struggling to provide mobility choices to their citizens. MaaS aims to help cities provide choice for their citizens, while facilitating smart city initiatives with cost savings and improved efficiencies.
It’s Time to Invest in Connected, Digitized Transportation
As roads deteriorate and highway fatalities continue to rise, citizen satisfaction with public transportation offerings is faltering. Now more than ever, it is critical for the public sector to invest in digitized transportation.
Transit and Wildlife at Baseball Games: Flora, Fauna and Human
Transit takes you out to the ball game!
Adventures in Public Transit when Traveling
Use the bus when traveling
Transit for Shopping Trips
How to do errands without a car.
Stuck in the Middle With You – Opening Traffic Data
We have started opening up data on traffic and travel. Because it is picking up live information from sensors on the streets and roads across the county, you can only view it as feeds (go here and search for traffic). If you are a developer, we’d love to see what you can do with thisRead… Read more »
Transportation Camp – Coming Soon to NY and SF
OpenPlans and Rockerfeller Foundation are presenting TransportationCamp events in NY and SF next month. Advisors for the events include many Gov 2.0 folks, including me. The future of transportation and involvment of stakeholders and innovators is critical, as municipal agencies such as the MTA grapple with major long-term funding imbalances. Tonight, Nick Grossman from OpenPlansRead… Read more »
Analyzing AASHTO’s “Projects and Paychecks: a One-Year Report on State Transportation Successes under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act”
Cross posted from my website: Streetsblog-Capitol Hill’s Elena Schor posted an interesting analysis a report titled Projects and Paychecks: a One Year Report on State Transportation Successes under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (and a website), released yesterday by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), the trade group representing stateRead… Read more »
The Personal Rapid Transit Revolution
As the world searches for an answer to reducing the use of fossil fuels, cities are starting to look to the personal rapid transit (PRT) system as a potential solution. Lately, MISTER, a Polish-based company, has gained increasing notice for their innovative PRT system. MISTER is an acronym for Metropolitan Individual System of Transportation onRead… Read more »