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Policy
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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
Environment
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Transportation and Health: A Tour of the Future

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 12:02 PM

In the world of “total health,” transportation and food are part of the health system. These industries combined make up a large chunk of the workforce and produce a large chunk of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. (The GHG numbers need to be interpreted with great care because there’s probably overlap between the industries. If you [...]

by Ted Eytan
Events

Transportation Data Palooza

Friday, May 3, 2013 3:12 PM

Mobility Lab will be exhibiting at Transportation Data Palooza, hosted by the U.S. Department of Transportation. One of our blog contributors, Shana Retherford Johnson, a senior transportation planner at Foursquare, will be presenting on Acquiring Modal Split and Occupancy Data. The keynote speaker will be Pete Stephanos of the Federal Highway Administration, and closing remarks will [...]

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
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
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
Health
Pedestrian Hack featured

Walking on Mondays Looks Like a Healthy, Smart Business Strategy

Tuesday, March 26, 2013 1:36 PM

I learned so many things at this past weekend’s Mobility Hack Day, which was held at Mobility Lab, a unique organization in our region and nation. “Mobility” refers to transportation, rather than “mobile technology,” although the two are commingled in this world. I have been following all of the amazing analysis and visualizations of Capital Bikeshare, the [...]

by Ted Eytan
Transit Tech
London data featured

Maps in Motion: Telling Stories from Transit Data

Friday, March 22, 2013 2:18 PM

Mobility Lab’s Data Visualization Hack Day (tomorrow, Saturday, March 23) will bring together programmers with agency representatives and community stakeholders. Our goal is to share both the data we have about regional mobility systems and the tools we use to visualize them. There’s something about visual information that manages to engage people and fire the imagination. As [...]

by Michael Schade
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
Mobility Lab & Partner Research
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Heavy Use of Montreal Bixi Bikesharing System Displayed with New Open-Data Map

Thursday, March 7, 2013 10:24 AM

The public now has access to bikesharing data from a new city. Bixi Montreal has released a chunk of data from a day of bikesharing, which I’ve incorporated into my Trip Visualizer. Montreal’s bikesharing system is the largest in North America, with 410 stations. Among the other systems I’ve studied – Washington D.C.’s Capital Bikeshare, [...]

by Michael Schade

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