Tools To Use

Tools to Use highlights material that can be used in programming educational content related to mobility management and helping people find better options than single-occupancy car trips.

Toolkit
Hack Day featured

Ideas Aplenty Flow as a Result of Latest Hack Day

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 1:38 PM

Local technologists shared ideas and worked together at Mobility Lab’s recent Data Visualization Hack Day. It’s great to take an online community and bring folks together. One of the participants, Ted Eytan, has already shared his experience of how he learned about new available data sets – see Walking on Mondays Looks Like a Healthy, Smart Business [...]

by Michael Schade
Mobility Lab & Partner Research
Hubway featured

Boston and Minneapolis-Saint Paul Maps Show Bikeshare’s Transportation Impact

Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:06 PM

After building the CaBi Trip Visualizer for the Capital Bikeshare system in Washington D.C. and Virginia, I looked for other cities I could do similar analyses with. I found two other systems that posted the open data that would allow me to create maps showing where their riders are coming and going. I got the [...]

by Michael Schade
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
Mobility Lab & Partner Research
Alexandria map featured

Neighborhood Clusters Added to Updated Capital Bikeshare Trip Visualizer

Tuesday, January 29, 2013 12:30 PM

Capital Bikeshare’s trip history data for the 4th quarter of 2012 has been posted, and with it I’ve made a new version of the CaBi Trip Visualizer. (See last quarter’s version at A Closer Look at Bikeshare Data.) For this version, I’ve strengthened the features that let you examine clusters of stations. When you select [...]

by Michael Schade
Mobility Lab & Partner Research
Michael 4 Mode featured

Side-by-Side Router Compares Driving, Walking, Biking, and Transit

Friday, January 18, 2013 2:05 PM

Online mapping applications have become an essential tool for route planning. The route planner from Google Maps originally assumed everyone wanted driving directions for cars, but has grown to include options for biking, walking, and transit. Availability depends on the location, but I’ve been impressed with Google Maps’ coverage. Using Google’s “application programming interface” (API), I [...]

by Michael Schade
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
Other Important Mobility Research
Clouds featured

2013 Will be the Year of Streamlining Our Business Lives – Forbes

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 3:12 PM

How quickly will the workplace evolve in 2013? Brett Caine, a vice president at Citrix Online Services, has written a fascinating article at Forbes, and many of his trends portend good things for reducing our solo-driving footprints for getting to our jobs. By embracing technology, Caine envisions that businesses increasingly will offer work-at-home options to [...]

by Tom Fairchild
How To

Mobility Lab Express #4

Tuesday, December 18, 2012 3:52 PM

Mobility Lab Express #4 – December 15, 2012 (PDF) This issue, we look inside the Mobility Lab Toolbox, which provides insight into how Arlington County, Virginia and Washington D.C. have implemented transportation-oriented development that works and can easily be replicated.  

by Paul Mackie
Toolkit
Chris Hamilton Mobility Video

The Personal Benefits of “Mobility Management”

Monday, December 17, 2012 12:21 PM

“Mobility management” is, from a personal perspective, about accessibility. It’s about having travel options that are superior to driving alone. For an individual, mobility management has a lot of benefits. You can save a lot of money. Often, you can also save time. You might save on the stress of getting caught in traffic. There’s [...]

by Chris Hamilton
Education
Behavior Change featured

Behavior Changes and Commuting: Making It Easier

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 2:18 PM

I recently attended and presented at the Behavior, Energy and Climate Change conference in Sacramento, California. Although the conference focus was on energy and climate change, the best part was learning about basic behavior-change strategies that can apply to anything – commutes, weight loss, even buying habits. It made me think of one of my own transformations [...]

by Elizabeth A. Floyd

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