Eleven Ways Adaptive Signals Frustrate, Discourage, and Endanger People Who Walk
Things don’t always work as planned. That certainly must be the feeling at the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) after the rollout of high-tech...
Car2Go is now integrated with The Transit App
The Transit App just keeps getting better and better. Yesterday, software engineers behind the app enthusiastically announced the roll out of a new transportation service to...
Midweek Video: So You Built the Wrong Transit System… What Now?
RM Transit discusses how some cities may have built the wrong transit system for their needs. It may not be the end of the...
Sunday Video: Metro Systems
City Beautiful explores why more American cities don’t have metro systems like New York City and Chicago.
https://youtu.be/bLtmJHHqbh8
While there are no one answer for this,...
Transit App Rolls Out Local Update
The Transit App gave the Puget Sound a very quiet, but welcome update last week. The long-awaited—and constantly requested—integration of scheduled data for Community Transit was...
Sunday Video: Google’s Self-Driving Car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk3oc1Hr62g
Google has put out a fascinating video of its self-driving car. It's amazing how well behaved the vehicle is around pedestrians, cyclists, and other...
Urban Hubs Need A CLT Boost
This is the second in a two-part series on cross-laminated timber; read the first here.
I've proposed creating a cross-laminated timber (CLT) bonus by adding 35...
Top Apps Emerge from Seattle’s Commute Hackathon
At the end of Seattle's Hack the Commute on Sunday night the judges selected three potentially game-changing software applications for further development. Over the...