Public Transportation

Public Transit in Lagos

Bus Rapid Transit systems is a ‘transport system’ that is rapidly being adopted by many governments and cities around to world to solve commuting and human movement problems within their cities.[read more]

Public Transit of the Future?

The promise of a fully automated highway network has captivated the imaginations of futurists and aspirational engineers for several generations. In these visions there is a wide range of so-called “intelligent vehicle systems."[read more]

Urban Design Walkability

 

Walkers are practitioners of the city, for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities.[read more]

Mainstreaming Green Insfrastructure

Green infrastructure is now big time, given the head of water for the Environmental Protection Agency is now promoting its benefits.[read more]

Urbanism Speakeasy is a podcast with a particular focus on human-scale design. We love streets and places designed for people, regardless of how they happen to travel. No advanced technical degrees or silver spoons required on this show. Our primary goal is to share technical information and trends in ordinary language. The show is...[read more]

free public transit?

The foremost response to my thought experiment on farebox recovery is that transit should be free. Why don’t we treat transit like we treat elevators? Functionally they appear very similar.[read more]

tramlines

Tramways have a greater impact on communities than local governments give them. Tramways connect people and business in a way that no other physical medium can.[read more]

 

elderly and mixed-use communities

 

68% of US seniors defy the stereotype of selling the family home and moving to the sunbelt. They typically cited proximity to family and friends, amenities, the presence of public transit, and the ability to walk daily as reasons to stay.[read more]

frustration index!

While city planners and officials regularly use data to measure things like ridership and congestion, they’ve yet to fully harness the power of data to communicate the human experience of using public transport.[read more]

gas a thing of the past?

WAVE, funded by a $2.7 million grant, have unveiled the Aggie Bus. This electric bus charges through induction, topping up its batteries from a charge plate in the ground whenever it collects passengers.[read more]

Bus Rapid Transit

A Bus Rapid Transit system is coming to Washington, DC in the spring of 2014, good news for DC residents, who are currently dealing with the worst traffic in the country.[read more]

the future of San Francisco transit?

But one of the biggest challenges facing public transit is the issue of intermodal passenger transport. Using two or more modes of transportation on a single journey is often difficult.[read more]