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Leveling The Playing Field Via “Parking Cash Out”
Donald Shoup pointed out many years ago that if companies pay the costs of parking for their employees, a common fringe benefit (and an expensive one, at that), those employers are essentially giving...
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NYC Subway Extension Arrives ~100 Years Late, But With Beautiful Stations
NYC's Q train recently got a big new subway extension, after nearly a century-long wait for the mythic segment. New Year's Day 2017 saw the first phase of the "Second Avenue subway" opened — that's...
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Bicycles & Autonomous Cars Are On A Collision Course
Bicycles present a unique challenge for city planners and designers of autonomous cars. The question is, what do cities of the future want to be -- still focused on cars or centers of refuge for...
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Watch NYC Change In New Streetfilms Montage (VIDEO)
As change takes us further and further, it is only occasionally that we remember how things once were. The landscape of urbanist environments is certainly changing, and in the best of cases is working...
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Choose Your Next Home With Car-Free US City Transit
The website that brought renters, homebuyers, and realtors a powerful index of walkability has done it again, this time for public transit (source: walkscore.com). At the end of January, Matt Lerner,...
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Win-Win Transportation Solutions With Todd Litman
How Communities Can Reduce Transportation Emissions by 50% Originally published on the ECOreport. “Would we have a sustainable transportation system if all automobiles were electric powered?” asked...
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Chicago 2030: Green Or Ashen?
Editor’s Note: This article is one submission in a live Masdar blogging contest (find out the entry requirements here). Very simply, the focus of the contest submissions is to: “Describe your city in...
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13 New Renewable Cities Speakers
Originally published on Renewable Cities. With [under] one month until the Global Learning Forum takes place, we are very happy to announce 13 incredible speakers and session leaders: Chris Henderson,...
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Bicycling Doubles In Vancouver, North America’s Most Livable City
The city of Vancouver has set another standard for cities across the world. Vancouver recently hit another smart growth milestone or two with upward-spiraling numbers of citizens and visitors freely...
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Comprehensive $64 Million Bicycle & Pedestrian Plan For San Diego
Originally published on Bikocity. Recently, Next City reported on San Diego, California’s $64 million plan to construct a bicycle and pedestrian transit system complete with “protected bike lanes,...
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Panasonic Enterprise Solutions & Sensity Systems Announce Alliance
The Panasonic Corporation of North America division Panasonic Enterprise Solutions and Sensity Systems Inc have announced the formation of a new alliance related to Panasonic’s CityNow initiative,...
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Google’s “Popular Times” Can Improve City Planning
Originally published on Bikocity. When it comes to city planning, research is the key – the key to fluid transportation, efficient land usage, and reasonable allocation of resources. Tim Barton...
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Protected Bike Lane Stats, Galore!
Originally published on Bikocity. As someone who is more than peevish when it comes to biking (for good reason — I have crashed my bike into fences and the like just from being a space cadet), my...
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Solar, EV, Bike, Train, Fossil Fuel News Roundup
Here are some top cleantech (and fossil fuel) stories from around the Interwebs. Enjoy. Solar Power Construction Starts On Solar-Powered Stadium In France Masdar Launches Africa’s Largest Solar PV...
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Electric Bikes, A Rising Force On Urban Transit Landscape — 38 Million Units...
Efforts to transition rapidly to renewable and clean energy solutions while satisfying growing urban mobility needs are key factors accelerating the sale and use of electric bicycles. Widely used in...
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Bicycle Infrastructure Policy Needs To Change To Increase Ridership, Improve...
Via the delectable Bikocity, here’s some recent news on bicycle infrastructure research and the need to change the bicycle guidelines in transportation planning’s “Bible” (something I’ve been...
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Car Hater To EV Lover (What Made Me Into An Electric Car Lover?)
Here’s a short version of how I changed from being ‘ugh’ about cars to ‘meh’ about electric cars to a super EV enthusiast. Check her out: I’m not going to lie — I’ve got issues with cars. My master’s...
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New York City Bike Share Launches — New Tech, Reactions, & How To Use The...
This article originally appeared on Bikocity. New York City (NYC) has finally rolled out the beginnings of its large bicycle-sharing program, Citi Bike, with 6,000 bikes and 330 bike-sharing stations...
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EV News & Bike News (BMW i8 Roadster, Nissan Leaf Quick Chargers…)
Before checking out the EV news and bike news below, of course, be sure to check out our own EV & bike stories if you haven’t seen them all. After you’ve done that, here are 8 more EV stories, 11...
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Singapore Debuts Driverless Navia Electric Shuttle (VIDEO)
One of my favorite things about St. Augustine are the tourist trolleys that shuttle people around the historic sites and let you learn the history of that old city without worrying too much about the...
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