TripGo*. It’s a simple concept. Provide people with an app that lowers individual transportation emissions by efficiently coordinating, navigating, and planning travel routes. Yet it’s a very real, available technology solution in line with the findings in last month’s report, A Global High Shift Scenario, published by the University of … [continued]
How much have we changed as a society due to the greater diversity of transportation choices made by Millennials? Has the automobile seen it’s heyday? The latest Census data from the 2013 American Community Survey examines changes of younger and older commuters — focusing on the country’s largest metropolitan areas. Millennials … [continued]
Travelers with the lightest footprints, pedestrians, and bicyclists, recently earned a boost in their pockets for their carbon-free travel in a small city in Norway. In Lillestrøm, around 10,000 NOK (€1,200) was handed out to pedestrians and cyclists. “Reverse toll money” was part of Norway’s ongoing European Mobility Week celebrations. … [continued]
Washington DC and New York City have sprung to the forefront of a recent Census Statistics release. Each city has improved bicycle infrastructure and shown swiftly rising numbers of bicyclists. The cities have enhanced some networks of modern protected bike lanes, and bicyclists are using them as quickly as they appear. Census … [continued]
Here’s another ingenious and practical infrastructure story from our mentor in all things bicycle and mass transit, Copenhagen. Safety is not a small issue with bicyclists and pedestrians. Copenhagen has many bus stops and cycle tracks with a lot of bicyclists and pedestrians, which provides the need to really integrate them … [continued]
Intuitively, people concerned about the environment have reasoned that riding a bike or taking public transit offer more ecological benefits than driving a car, especially when they’re traveling alone. Now the University of California and the New York-based international nonprofit Institute for Transportation and Development Policy have provided some heady … [continued]
A year ago, the city of Suwon in South Korea motivated people to encounter life from another vantage point. In the neighborhood of Haenggung-dong, residents practiced a car-free experiment that was a brilliant success. The Eco-mobility World Festival encouraged 4,343 residents and car owners to volunteer to give up the use … [continued]
Bikeshares are active in many cities in the United States, in 60 municipalities, and worldwide in over 300 hundred cities. Small progressive communities such as Aspen, colleges such as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and large urban areas such as Washington DC, Boston, and New York City have programs. … [continued]
Here’s some more electric vehicle news from around the interwebs: Jo drives some neighborhood electric vehicles and then tells us what he thinks of them. (GAS2) The Tesla Model S has a new color option, metallic grey. There are only a few Teslas with this color so far. A redditor recently … [continued]
Cumulative worldwide sales of electric motorcycles and electric scooters during the years of 2014 through 2023 will top 55 million units, according to a new report from Navigant Research. The report — Electric Motorcycles and Scooters — provides an overview of expected trends in the e-motorcycles, e-scooters, and related battery technology … [continued]
