Technology

Bellevue Uses Crowd-Sourced Data Project To Delay Safe Street Designs

What makes a street dangerous? Do you need a "cutting-edge" algorithm to answer that question? The City of Bellevue has said yes as it embarks on...

Combining Driving and Transit to Save Time

The introduction of bike-share, car-share and ride-share systems has made urban transportation increasingly multi-modal enabling users to complete different parts of their journey with...

The Good and the Bad of Driverless Cars for Cities

The age of driverless cars is rapidly approaching, and no one seems to know what to do about it. The technology is picking up...

Sunday Video: Dutch Cities Are Better For The Climate

As a companion to Climate Town's crossover video with Not Just Bikes on American cities, suburbs, and climate, Not Just Bikes looks at how...

The Urbanist Relaunched

Today, The Urbanist is launching a brand new theme for our website. It's not only brighter and cleaner, but it also has tons of new functionality and features for...

Sound Transit Launches New Link Real-Time Arrival Information at Stations

Link light rail passengers just got a big improvement. On Tuesday, Sound Transit launched new real-time arrival information at light rail stations to provide...

Sunday Video: Camera Enforcement as Lifesaving Technology

Traffic camera enforcement technology isn’t popular among motorists, but there’s a lot of upsides to camera enforcement of traffic regulations, such as speed limits....

Real-Time Information Signs Going Live On Route 44 Soon

Later this month, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) will flip the switch on newly installed real-time information signs (RTIS) in North Seattle. Between Ballard and the...