Technology

A Data-Driven and Technological Approach to Parking Management: Seattle’s 2015 Fall Pay Parking Rates...

Seattle takes a very data-driven approach to paid parking rates and restrictions throughout the city. Each year, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) conducts a...

Sunday Video: Making The New York City Digital Subway Map

https://youtu.be/eQE7iGp5c3U New York City now has a dynamic digital version of the subway map that blends the best of the classic Massimo Vignelli design with...

Microsoft’s $500 Million Pledge Has Set the Bar for Tech Industry

Technology centers like the Bay Area, New York, and Seattle are becoming unaffordable for all but the wealthiest. What responsibility does the tech industry...

Newest Transit App Version 4.2 Integrates Modes Seamlessly

Navigating the world by bike and foot just got easier through Transit, the super-intelligent mobile app built for smartphones and tablets. Transit also bundled...

Transit App: Now Supporting Accessibility Information

Transit App's most recent update now includes accessibility information for some 230 transit agencies, including Community Transit locally. The information is fairly basic, showing...

Will Soil Save Cities from Climate Change?

After reading Kristin Ohlson’s The Soil Will Save Us, I was tempted to pack up and head for the countryside to become an organic...

Metro Debuts New Digital Arrival Signs with More to Come

Since the start of Northgate Link service this month, King County Metro has brought online a network of new digital real-time information signs (RTIS)....

How Seattle Might Regulate Short-Term Vacation Rentals

Short-term vacation rentals have become an increasingly prominent feature of the urban environment in Seattle. Just three years ago, there were only a couple hundred Airbnb...