Houston’s Plan to Make “Bicycle Interstates” Out of Its Utility Network
Washington, DC – July 29, 2014 – Long lanes of grass alongside power lines are almost as ubiquitous in Houston as highways. There are roughly 500 miles of high-voltage utility rights-of-way criss-crossing the city, and they’re mostly just dead spaces, forming weedy barriers between neighborhoods. What could the city do if it repurposed these underused spaces? Inspired by an …
Uber Study Declares Uber is Great for Boston, But Take it With Several Grains of Salt
Boston, MA – August 8, 2014 – A recent study performed by Uber shows that the smartphone-based car hire company has done what traditional taxis either can’t or won’t: serve all areas of the city quickly and reliably. But—and this is a big but—Uber’s study used data from a 2013 study of Boston’s taxi scene …
Big Blue Bus Expo Integration Study
The Big Blue Bus Expo Integration Study won the 2018 Implementation Award from the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Planning Association, granted to a planning endeavor that displays a substantial project accomplishing optimistic changes as a result of outstanding planning work in the Los Angeles region. With the arrival of the Expo Line, a …
Transportation Projects Don’t Need to Take as Long as They Do
By Terra Curtis and Paul Supawanich Washington, DC – July 10, 2014 – Why are new car models released every calendar year? And, why do those apps on your phone download updates every few days? These consumer products are the outcomes of a design and production process that values prototyping, rapid iteration, and a learn-from-mistakes …
Transit projects are about to get much, much easier in California
San Francisco — July 8, 2014 — The report that Michael Schwartz sets down on the table is truly enormous. It looks like it has eaten several smaller reports and laughed as they tried to run away screaming. The document is some 700-pages long and several inches thick; that’s not counting the second volume or …
Connecting Cities
New York, NY – June 17, 2014 – With more than half the world’s population now living in cities, and as the speed of urbanization continues to increase, urban mobility is fundamental to the ability of cities to work effectively. In this report we argue that friction in mobility will be reduced by mobile technologies and …