Rail

Melbourne's Public Transit

Melbourne is a city that is experiencing the greatest increase in population in Australia, as well as some of the highest levels of traffic congestion.[read more]

transit-oriented development

Oakland continues to bring new development and innovation to its neighborhoods. Next up is an impressive urban planning initiative to be built in Temescal beside the MacArthur BART station.[read more]

public transit

Friends told me I could easily get a house. But I didn’t want to increase my carbon footprint by moving into a bigger house just because I could afford it. And I was not going to drive to school everyday to study Sustainability.[read more]

car crazy?

With continued fluctuation in gasoline prices and increasingly congested highways, many Americans are becoming more receptive to giving up their cars – or at least trading the daily commute to and from work.[read more]

Kathryn Gray is the coordinator of Transportation for Michigan, a coalition of Michigan communities working to make their surroundings more livable. Kathryn has studied social relations, policy, public affairs, and public administration. At Transportation for Michigan, Kathryn's eyes are focused on 4 major areas - funding reform,...[read more]

transit in Zurich

I don’t think filmmaker Alessandro Della Bella intended to make a video about transit in Zurich, but trains, trams, streetcars and the people who ride them are the clear stars in this hyper-fun time-lapse video.[read more]

Stockholm Metro

Over 90 of the 100 subway stations in Stockholm have been decorated with sculptures, mosaics, paintings, installations, engravings and reliefs by over 150 artists.[read more]

subway-income distribution

When data is visualized, patterns emerge. The same can be said about the New Yorker’s Inequality and New York’s Subway interactive chart, which highlights inequality based on subway stops.[read more]

A public transit system is detested if it’s difficult to use. This is equally true for those walking or biking to mass transit. There's a need to create better systems for people accessing a transit system on on foot or bike.[read more]

London Underground

An ambitious visualization of data gathered on commuter transit patterns by bus and rail in the course of one day in greater London.[read more]

Union Station

Union Station will transition to 100 percent wind power for its electricity load of 18,943,964 kilowatt hours annually. This is equivalent to avoiding the consumption of more than 1,400,000 gallons of gasoline.[read more]

"Grand Paris" transit plan

French officials launched the ambitious "Grand Paris" plan in 2007 to connect suburban residents with economic centers throughout the metropolitan area and reduce their need to travel through the center.[read more]