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 […]
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 […]
Recently, someone directed me to look the Santa Cruz Metro 2007-2008 Short Range Transit Plan. One of its features is an evaluation of the Santa Cruz Metro website based on the results of a web-based public survey. As part of the planning process, it makes a lot of sense to evaluate websites, and other components […]
This article appeared in the Times-Standard on October 23, 2007. Google Transit is a new service that provides customized public transit itineraries. If you’ve ever used a website like MapQuest for driving directions, you will instantly understand Google Transit. To figure out how to travel somewhere using Google Transit, just enter starting and ending locations […]