By Robbie Webber at SSTI, Latinos are being pushed to urban edges, rural areas with few transportation options, posted on June 3rd, 2019: affordable housing, job access, Latino, transportation options A study by researchers at UT Health San Antonio details the barriers that Latinos in the U.S. face because of poor access to transportation options. Inadequate transit options, unreliable or spotty schedules, long commutes, and a …
How should congestion pricing work in the future? It may be based on “square-foot-second of road capacity”
How should congestion pricing work in the future? It may be based on “square-foot-second of road capacity” that accounts for the width of the vehicle, the size of the buffer zone around it, and the time you occupy that space. New York’s Adoption Of Congestion Charging Might Mean Something Much More Radical Could Come Brad Templeton, Forbes, 28 May 2019 …
Why Public Transportation is Better Outside of the US
Why Public Transportation is Better Outside of the US excerpt from Jonathan English Even when the United States built expensive rail systems, it never took care of the basics. Cities rarely provided good, frequent local connections that allowed people to actually get to rail stations without walking or driving. To this day, in most parts of American cities, it is all but …
From Mobility to Access for All: Expanding Urban Transportation Choices in the Global South: Up to half of urbanites experience restricted access, leading to high travel burdens and/or exclusion from opportunities
by Christo Venter, Anjali Mahendra and Dario Hidalgo – May 2019 Many cities are experiencing a decline in access to jobs, services and people due to a confluence of two trends: rapid urbanization and motorization. Lack of access afflicts both low-income communities scattered throughout the city and low- to medium-income people living in suburbs and peripheral settlements who use private cars and motorcycles on long, congested …
Sacramento councilmember proposes free transit for students
By Katie Pyzyk@_PyintheSky May 28, 2019, Smart Cities Dive Sacramento City Councilmember Jay Schenirer has proposed providing all students in the city with free transit passes through a partnership with Sacramento Regional Transit (SacRT). All children from kindergarten through 12th grade who live or go to school in Sacramento would be able to ride buses and light rail for free …
CleverShuttle CEO & Co-Founder Talks Sustainable Ride-Pooling in Germany
May 27th, 2019 by Erika Clugston , Clean Technica If two people are going in the same direction, why not share a ride, lower the cost, and save on money and gas? This was the logic that the founders of CleverShuttle had in mind when they formed the company in Munich in 2014. Now, five years later, the on-demand ride-pooling startup has taken off and …
E-buses are quieter and cleaner than traditional alternatives, require 60% less maintenance, save money, and cut air pollution. Diesel buses were causing 20 percent of the pollution in Shenzhen with .5 percent of vehicles.
Electric bus adoption has lots of roadblocks: New reports offer solutions: New research from the World Resources Institute offers roadmap for electrifying mass transit By Patrick Sisson May 21, 2019, SHARE An electric bus in Krakow, Poland pausing at a charging station. Shutterstock Transportation is one of the largest sources of carbon emissions, and amid the barrage of big-picture initiatives and bold pledges, one of …
MN: Park-and-ride transit gives suburban commuters higher access to jobs
MAY 22, 2019 Park-and-ride transit gives suburban commuters higher access to jobs, by University of Minnesota A park-and-ride facility in Eagan. Credit: Mike McCarthy Park-and-ride facilities enable many suburban and exurban commuters in the Twin Cities metro area to reach roughly as many jobs as urban transit users, according to a first-of-its-kind study from the Accessibility Observatory at the University of …
Has Seattle Found the Solution to Driving Alone to Work? How a fast-growing city has invested heavily in mass transit alternatives to keep a lid on gridlock
By ERICK TRICKEY, Politico, May 23, 2019 Read more Erick Trickey is a writer in Boston. SEATTLE—Three years ago, this fast-growing, hilly city of 725,000 people took a huge leap toward a longtime civic dream: becoming a place where it’s easy to live without driving every day or without owning a car at all. In March 2016, the region’s Link light-rail system, which ran …
Making communities more livable through transit-oriented development: Top 10 “must do’s”
Third in a series being published in advance of State-City Collaboration on Clean Energy Transformations, taking place from May 29–30, 2019 in Vancouver, British Columbia in parallel with Clean Energy Ministerial 2019. Written by Mike McKeever, a Senior Advisor and former Chief of Staff to Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is an essential component in any sustainable …