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Lovely Data featured

Data Palooza Helps USDOT Plan for Our Transportation Future

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 12:21 PM

Imagine the following scenario: Your daily commute in Washington D.C. requires taking metro’s green line to Gallery Place, then transferring onto a metrobus to your final destination. Unfortunately, the Washington Capitals hockey team is playing at Gallery Place’s Verizon Center. The game has just completed, and the street is teaming with Caps fans. Traffic is [...]

by Paul Goddin
Community Design
Jeff Speck featured

Author Jeff Speck and 10 Reasons to Go Car-Lite

Friday, May 10, 2013 12:06 PM

Jeff Speck has gone from being a city planner and architectural designer to one of the world’s most-acclaimed authors on walkability in a relatively short time. The author of Suburban Nation (with Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk) and Walkable City spoke at a recent symposium sponsored by Mobility Lab and the Association of Commuter Transportation. Here are 10 [...]

by Paul Mackie
Policy
Rideshare featured

The Fine Line Between Ridesharing and Taxi Cabs

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 4:09 PM

This morning, Facebook, ever knowledgeable about users interests and preferences, recommended an app to me called SideCar. Clicking the SideCar link resulted in an application page soliciting users to join its fleet of drivers with the pitch, “You drive every day. Why not get paid for it?” SideCar is a smartphone-enabled, instant-match ridesharing service, and [...]

by Paul Goddin
Health
Capitol Hill Village featured

Let’s Get Entrepreneurial to Help Older Adults Maintain their Mobility

Monday, April 22, 2013 12:18 PM

Many of us with older parents are feeling an increased burden when our loved ones can no longer drive. Jurisdictions tasked with providing older adult transportation are figuring out how to address this demand as well. According to a study by the Maricopa Association of Governments’ Municipal Aging Services Project, public transit demand will nearly triple [...]

by Stephanie K. Firestone
Environment
Mexico bus station featured

Join Us for Free Lunch This Week on Mexico City Transportation

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 1:54 AM

Please join us for lunch on Wednesday, April 17 to hear from representatives of EMBARQ/Mexico about their groundbreaking success in Mexico City. EMBARQ is the sustainable transportation initiative of the World Resources Institute. It collaborates with local transport authorities to reduce pollution, improve public health, and create safe, accessible, and attractive urban public spaces in Mexico, Brazil, China, India, Turkey, [...]

by Paul Mackie
Community Design
Stuttgart featured

Transport Planning and Policy in the U.S. More Car Oriented Than in Germany

Thursday, April 4, 2013 1:41 PM

Germany and the United States have some of the highest levels of car ownership in the world. However, ground passenger transportation in Germany is less car dependent than in the United States. Driving for more trips and longer distances makes the U.S. transportation system less sustainable than the German system. Looking at the Washington D.C. and Stuttgart metro regions provides [...]

by Ralph Buehler
Mobility Lab & Partner Research
WAMU featured

WAMU Reports on Arlington’s Commuter Successes

Tuesday, March 26, 2013 11:00 AM

WAMU 88.5 FM (a Washington D.C. National Public Radio affiliate) features Mobility Lab today on both an excellent radio segment and a web feature article by knowledgeable transportation-beat reporter Martin Di Caro. Here is an excerpt. Listen and read the full article here. ——————– While the District of Columbia grapples with proposed changes to its parking [...]

by Paul Mackie
Other Important Mobility Research
Bike commuting featured

The State of Bike Commuting in the DC Region

Monday, March 4, 2013 2:11 PM

The Mid-Atlantic Universities Transportation Center has published “Trends and Determinants of Cycling in the Washington D.C. Region,” written by myself and my co-authors Andrea Hamre, Dan Sonenklar, and Paul Goger. Mobility Lab is further publishing the key findings from this report, in two parts. The first part highlighted our key findings on cycling trends and policies [...]

by Ralph Buehler
Economic Prosperity
LaHood Tim Kelley featured

“Bikes Equal Business” is Message at Next Week’s National Bike Summit

Friday, March 1, 2013 2:55 PM

Next week, BikeArlington and friends head across the river to Washington D.C. to join with more than 800 bike advocates and enthusiasts from around the U.S. taking part in the National Bike Summit, which is put on by the League of American Bicyclists. This year’s theme is “Bicycle Means Business” and will examine the economic benefits [...]

by Tim Kelley
Environment
San Fran walkers featured

San Francisco Crunches Numbers on Health Benefits of Biking and Walking

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 11:38 AM

Researchers from the Bay Area have quantified the public health benefits of increased biking and walking as a way to reduce greenhouse gas pollution for San Francisco and its surroundings. They found that increasing average daily walking and bicycling from 4 to 22 minutes: reduced the chances of cardiovascular disease and diabetes by 14 percent [...]

by Paul Mackie

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