I am a bit obsessed with the idea that travel information plays a crucial (and often overlooked) role in sustainable mobility options. Ian Sacs on the Planetizen blog has an idea for how one facet of this issue — mobility information on mobile devices — can get more attention. New acryonyms! (If you’ve been involved […]
Last year, More Riders Magazine Publisher Dan Johnson-Weinberger interviewed Tom Sly, Google New Business Development Manager for Google Transit. “Googling the Future” was published in More Riders Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 2, Spring 2008. The interview/article does a great job at explaining how Google Transit is more than just another trip planner, and how it […]
Yesterday, I discovered a new favorite blog, “Human Transit.” The blog is by Jarrett Walker, a consultant at McCormick Rankin Cagney. On the welcome post, he says: Since 1991 I’ve been a consulting transit planner, helping to design transit networks and policies for a huge range of communities. My goal here is to start conversations […]
From TheTransitWire.com comes an alert that the USDOT Resarch and Innovative Technology Administration is seeking comments on the “Intelligent Transportation Systems Program”. Here are the details from the page at Regulations.gov: DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Research and Innovative Technology Administration [Docket No. RITA 2009-0001] Establishing Strategic Direction for the Intelligent Transportation Systems Program AGENCY: Research and […]