Pop Culture

You might ask what mobility management has to do with pop culture. As Christopher Leinberger, land-use strategist and distinguished scholar at George Washington University, has stated, Hollywood does more market research than any other industry. Movies, television, music, and books not only reflect where we are as a culture, but where we want to go (often quite literally). If TV stars, superheroes, or zombies can assist in informing us on quality-of-life issues, start a dialogue, and get people out of their single-occupancy vehicles, then we’re all for it.

Pop Culture
Road Art featured

Sharing the Road with Art

Monday, May 13, 2013 4:43 PM

Baltimore’s Kinetic Sculpture Race is an engineering challenge, a feat of endurance, and a display of visual kookiness that together make it a signature event of Charm City. But from my vantage points along the 14-mile route, it was also a demonstration of how human-powered vehicles can share the road with motor-powered vehicles. When the [...]

by Michael Schade
Pop Culture
Pedicab Austin featured

Technologies at SXSW Evolving How We Get Around

Thursday, March 28, 2013 10:55 AM

With sessions like “Making Accessible Transportation Modern and Cool,” “Sexy, Safe & Smart Highways,” and “Transportation Apps & the Sharing Economy,” transportation was re-imagined in new and exciting ways at this year’s South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas. Many of these ideas were discussed at local meetups like “Hacking Transportation” and “Bike Culture.” [...]

by Kelly Callahan-Poe
Pop Culture
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Top Commuter Trends at SXSW Interactive 2013

Friday, March 22, 2013 10:02 AM

The South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive 2013 Conference in Austin, Texas took a turn this year away from being the startup launching pad to something more substantial. It became a marketing festival – a place for the estimated 27,000 young, affluent, digital decision makers to connect with one another offline and to preview the art of our [...]

by Kelly Callahan-Poe
Pop Culture
On-Time Arrival featured

On-Time Arrival App Wins Contest, and You Will Never Miss Another Flight

Wednesday, February 6, 2013 3:28 PM

The creators of a nifty, high-tech airport-arrival app in development won this year’s first-ever “Six-Minute Pitch” competition at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 92nd Annual Meeting. I recently had the opportunity, while they were basking in their victorious glory, to ask co-developers Robert Rodden and Susan Paulus a few questions. Tell me about your app. It’s called [...]

by Paul Mackie
Community Design
Silverstein featured

Merging Knowledge of Failures With Successes is the Road to “Complete Streets” for All

Monday, February 4, 2013 3:57 PM

If you’ve ever read the collection of poems by Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends, then the phrase “complete streets” might remind you of the image above from the cover of his book. Complete Streets are streets “designed and operated to enable safe access for all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, and transit riders of all ages [...]

by Zanna Worzella
Environment
Medium group of people standing in subway train doorway

Documentary Details How Riding Trains Reduces Stress

Friday, February 1, 2013 1:11 PM

Less pollution, less congestion … those are good reasons to travel by train, but stress may be an even better one. For instance, people admitted to hospitals for heart attacks have a higher rate of having been in heavy traffic congestion just prior to their medical emergencies than other types of patients. And according to [...]

by Bernie Wagenblast
Community Design
Superdome featured

Transportation Planners Begin Early to Make Super Bowls Successful

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 2:48 PM

The Super Bowl isn’t all halftime shows and commercials. For a long time before the big game even begins, transportation professionals are working on plans to move thousands of people. New Orleans officials say that communications is a key to make sure transportation options are available and move residents and visitors around the city efficiently. [...]

by Bernie Wagenblast
Activity Centers
Affordable housing featured

Strategies Detailed to Remedy DC’s Affordable-Housing Crisis

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 11:09 AM

Lack of affordable housing is an unintended consequence of a region’s success, and can certainly be seen in the Washington D.C. metro area. As the public demand for walkable neighborhoods has increased, low- to moderate-income residents are being priced out of those neighborhoods. And unfortunately, the public policy regarding housing affordability in the United States [...]

by Paul Goddin
Health
Elizabeth on Train featured

Top 10 Bike and Bus Observations From Copenhagen

Thursday, January 17, 2013 3:30 PM

As I’ve mentioned here before, Copenhagen is an eye-opening city for multi-modal commuting options. I mean, you’ve gotta love a city with a golden woman on a bicycle overlooking it. In the early 1900s, the Danish capital was regarded as a top cycling city. Then car culture slowly seeped in. There was massive protesting of [...]

by Elizabeth A. Floyd
Career Opportunities
TRB Snowpocalypse

Transportation Industry Headed to the Shark Tank to Find Best Entrepreneurial Plan

Sunday, January 13, 2013 12:53 AM

TV shows like Shark Tank in the U.S. and Dragon’s Den in Ireland that highlight the ideas of entrepreneurs are growing in popularity. With that in mind, Shana Retherford Johnson, AICP-certified Senior Transportation Planner at the Foursquare Integrated Transportation Planning, came up with the idea to add a little spice to the upcoming Transportation Research [...]

by Paul Mackie

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