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• Long Trucks and Road Trains

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 632
  In discussions of the road trains of 6-8 vehicles that are kept in close formation for higher fuel efficiency and as a step toward robotic driving there is concern that the long line of vehicles would present issues for vehicles entering and exiting the highway. In this 46 page pdf presentation on Truck Weight ...
  5 hours ago

• Rate transit and walking options

  
  ecotravel news — Authority: 122
  Ecolocalizer reports on the web site that lets you rate the "walkability" of places in your neighborhood. Walkscore rates a neighborhood’s walkability on a 1 to 100 scale based on a number of criteria such as proximity to restaurants and grocery stores. Now, they’ve added a transit rating which takes into account ...
  8 hours ago

• Live From San Diego: Top Three Things To Do If You’re Not From California

  
  YPN Lounge — Authority: 120
    Brian Copeland By Brian Copeland, 2009 NAR Convention Blogger Coming from one of the “land locked” states, Tennessee, I sometimes forget the perks of coming to a place like San Diego.  As the sun rose over the bay outside my hotel this morning (a rarely seen site for me since I’m a late sleeper and ...
  12 hours ago

• SARTRE Project for Autonomous driving Video and Survey of Attitudes to Road Safety Technology

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 632
  Project on Social Attitudes to Road Traffic Risk in Europe (SARTRE) New technologies to enhance road safety Surveyed atttitudes to three different types of road safety systems. These were those that: • Helped the driver (aid systems), • Imposed certain behaviour (alert and intervention systems), • Could be ...
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• Riyadh Metro

  
  Saudi Jeans — Authority: 413
  Driving my car in King Fahad Road the other day, I was listening to MBC-FM’s Rana al-Qassim . The blabbering radio host has come to be associated in my mind with her overuse of the brotherly salutation “akhoi,” an attempt to deter the sexual advances of drooling Saudi callers, I guess. Although I think her ...
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• Empty morning bus

  
  Urban Sketchers — Authority: 563
  Yesterday morning I took a slightly earlier bus than my usual Tuesday morning connection, and found the bus empty until halfway to work. Passengers started filing in before I completely finished this sketch, but I kind of liked the empty bus so didnt fit any into it. This was done in my small pocket sketchbook, ...
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• In Honor of Veterans, 2009

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 605
  This Veterans Day, as we honor the sacrifices made by soldiers who’ve served and those who continue to do so, we mark the 91st anniversary of the end of World War I. It seems so long ago to most of us — ancient history. Yet history is a teacher and if we don’t listen, we’re bound to repeat the same mistakes. ...
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• Gold Line to East Los Angeles to open this weekend (Source: Pasadena Star-News)

  
  Pedestrian View Of Los Angeles — Authority: 130
  Link: Gold Line to East Los Angeles to open this weekend - Pasadena Star-News Gold Line to East Los Angeles to open this weekend Posted: 11/10/2009 02:05:24 PM PST LOS ANGELES - The Gold Line Eastside Extension, which will connect the end of the Gold Line at Union Station to within one miles of the city border ...
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• Roundup of articles on the Regional Connector

  
  Pedestrian View Of Los Angeles — Authority: 130
  Link: Curbed LA: Regional Connector: Know All the Possible Downtown Stops           Roundup of articles on the Regional Connector           Article 1           Regional Connector: Know All the Possible Downtown Stops Monday, November 9, 2009, by Neal Broverman See link for all ...
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• Subway extension debated

  
  Pedestrian View Of Los Angeles — Authority: 130
  The Daily Bruin | Subway extension debated Subway extension debated Community considers pros, cons of bringing Metro Purple Line to Westwood Boulevard By Kelly Zhou Nov. 9, 2009 at 2:17 a.m. For maps, click here and here . UCLA students expressed both their encouragement and concern for the Westside ...
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• Sketches on the train and tube in London 15

  
  Urban Sketchers — Authority: 563
  Some recent sketches on public transport.
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• Bike Programs Rolling Out Across China

  
  Cleaner Greener China — Authority: 121
  On three separate occasions over the last few months I have spoken to, or worked with, a group in Shanghai who was looking at the opportunity of start up bike sharing programs across Shanghai, and to bring back the bike. These conversations, it seems, are ones that are going on all over China, and there have been a ...
  2 days ago

• Unsuck DC Metro

  
  FamousDC — Authority: 595
  Start with the socks & sandals …Unsuck DC Metro: Rider Hall of Fame: Super Mega Fail Share on FacebookRelated posts:Metro Art FailRantworthy: Ticked Off Metro RiderMetro Opens Doors. It Just Can’t See TrainsRelated posts: Metro Art Fail Rantworthy: Ticked Off Metro Rider Metro Opens Doors. It Just ...
  2 days ago

• CHSRA Initiates Statewide Land Use Planning Effort (Source: California High Speed Rail Blog)

  
  Pedestrian View Of Los Angeles — Authority: 130
  Link: California High Speed Rail Blog: CHSRA Initiates Statewide Land Use Planning Effort Sunday, November 8, 2009 CHSRA Initiates Statewide Land Use Planning Effort San Francisco Chronicle architecture columnist John King writes today of an ambitious state planning project known as Vision California. The ...
  3 days ago

• Getting bullet train, Gold Line on track (Source: DailyBulletin.com)

  
  Pedestrian View Of Los Angeles — Authority: 130
  Link: Getting bullet train, Gold Line on track - DailyBulletin.com Getting bullet train, Gold Line on track David Allen, Staff Writer Created: 11/07/2009 06:06:59 AM PST HIGH-SPEED RAIL may one day travel through the Inland Valley, although the process itself is moving at low speed. By late 2012, a precise ...
  3 days ago

• LTCC Opposes Regional Connector Build Alternatives (Source: Rafu Shimpo)

  
  Pedestrian View Of Los Angeles — Authority: 130
  Link: LTCC Opposes Regional Connector Build Alternatives – Rafu Shimpo LTCC Opposes Regional Connector Build Alternatives By GWEN MURANAKA RAFU ENGLISH EDITOR IN CHIEF === The Little Tokyo Community Council on Tuesday stated its opposition to the two current build alternatives proposed for the Metro ...
  3 days ago

• 19. Montreals Public Bike System - Best Inventions of 2008

  
  Today's Top Voted Bookmarks — Authority: 151
  19. Montreals Public Bike System - Best Inventions of 2008 A great example of what a government can do to benefit its citizens, its taxpayers and itself. A perfect example of the proper way to use tax dollars in a manner that actually generates additional revenue for the city while reducing taxes for its citizens. ...
  3 days ago

• Some good news regarding public transportation...

  
  Praja - know. care. participate — Authority: 134
  Here is some good news concerning public transportation.... timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Thumbs-up-to-BRTS/articleshow/5210470.cms Of course it has nothing to do with Bangalore.....In fact I cannot think of any good news coming out of Bangalore in the recent past - except the fact that infighting may ...
  3 days ago

• Streetcar-mania

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 147
  Streetcars may be coming to a street near you in many cities. What links Boise, Cincinnati and Charlotte — and Salt Lake City, Dallas, Atlanta and Kansas City, where streetcar tracks abandoned in 1953 still poke through the city’s weathered asphalt — is they’re among dozens of local governments hoping ...
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• Transit Legend in Russia

  
  PostMuse — Authority: 127
  This very busy mapcard shows the incredible Moscow Metro. Elena notes that it must be a rare card in my collection, but it just appears so. It is from a boxed postcard set called Wanderlust: 30 Postcards for Insatiable Travelers, and not at all rare. I’m quite thrilled to have it postmarked from Moscow, with lovely ...
  3 days ago

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