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An Inside Glimpse of How Parking is Going High Tech
Christian Kloc juggles on stage at the January Meetup of Transportation Techies. TDM TAKEAWAY Tech tools are making it easier to balance parking and space needs. The January edition of Transportation...
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Tech “Hacks” Help Create Critical Mass for Bicycling
Thomas Stokell of Love to Ride TDM TAKEAWAY Making bicycling fun and relevant in a tech-driven world takes creative innovation. The bicycle was created in the 1800s, but technology is keeping it...
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Taking Bridj in D.C. Offers Great New Option, and Maybe Even Some Time Savings
TDM TAKEAWAY Bridj offers places (where available) a potentially great new transportation option. I switched up my usual commute this morning and ditched my bike for the chance to try out Bridj, a...
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Should Uber Get Special Treatment? A Look at Sharing-Economy Rules
Rendering of proposed Uber headquarters in San Francisco TDM TAKEAWAY Confusion on regulations for startups is making it tricky for cities and states to innovate with public transportation....
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5 Apps for Catching Your Train and Being Productive on D.C.’s Metro
TDM TAKEAWAY Technology about delays, productivity, and ease of use can greatly improve transit experiences. Mobility Lab’s Transportation Techies has grown wildly to include more than 900 members in...
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Transit Data Gets More Intriguing As the Way It’s Presented Improves
TDM TAKEAWAY Open data from transportation networks is improving the ways we understand how people move through their environments. Adil Yalcin said he was always frustrated that so many data-analysis...
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Apps Are Not the Answer
Kotaro Haro presents to the Techies TDM TAKEAWAY Civic hackers are are an increasingly important ally in correctly planning the public transportation systems of the future. It’s clear that apps,...
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Walking, the Oldest Form of Public Transportation, Goes High Tech
Ted Eytan of Kaiser Permanente TDM TAKEAWAY There is a plethora of new ways to get smarter about how people move through places, and it could usher in a golden age of planning for cities and...
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Washington Post Helps Trumpet How Open Data Improves Our Transit Options
OPTION OPPORTUNITIES By embracing open data, transit agencies can engage interested programmers and encourage improvements to and analysis of transportation systems. Being able to boast online about...
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From Rebalancing to Dock-Blocking: Techies Hack to Make Capital Bikeshare...
OPTIONS OPPORTUNITY Bikeshare operators, governments, and corporate owners should pay close attention to how they could incorporate the discoveries of hackers into improving their systems. Hack nights...
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Transportation Techies: Safer Streets with Better Data
OPTIONS OPPORTUNITY Better data provides opportunities both externally, through road design, and internally, through driver behavior, to make driving safer and more efficient for all road users....
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Transportation Techies: Telling Better Bike Stories with Contextual Data
OPTIONS OPPORTUNITY Contextual, visual information can empower the bike community to pursue safer roads and encourage potential riders to consider biking as a commuter option. Bicycling in Washington,...
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Tech is Good, But We Need Transportation Planning for the City of the Future
This article was originally published by EcoLocalizer and CleanTechnica. TRANSPO TAKEAWAY We will achieve embraceable cities of the future if we get the right people at the table now to start...
View ArticleTransportation Techies’ Metro Hack Night, from Within WMATA HQ
Last night, members of the Transportation Techies group came together to share projects, visualizations, and apps relating to D.C.’s Metro system. The group’s fourth “Metro Hack Night” since Techies...
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WMATA Hosts Metro Hack Night, Announces More Real-Time Data
TRANSPO TAKEAWAY By providing – and improving – real-time system data and working with third-party developers, agencies can help riders better understand potential issues with their commutes and make...
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Transportation Techies: Piecing together data to improve biking in DC
Spring has arrived early this year on the East Coast, so it is already time to break out the bike, if it ever went away during the winter. And this month’s installment of the Mobility Lab-sponsored...
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New bikeshare data standard opens doors for apps and analysis
After years of messy, inconsistent bikeshare data, a new standard has emerged to unite major systems. At the latest Transportation Techies meetup event, which focused on Capital Bikeshare projects,...
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How bikeshare should fit into a low-stress biking network
How do car-dominated streets inform how people use bikeshare? How can we estimate the purpose behind certain bikeshare trips? New tools to help planners and the community answer some of these daunting...
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Boosting Boulder B-cycle with data insights and visualizations
And other news from Transportation Techies Boulder B-Cycle, the city’s bikeshare system, is looking to expand its ridership base. While it has doubled the number of annual rides between 2014 and 2015,...
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Crowd control: Simulating congestion in the D.C. Metro
The D.C. Metro system and its hundreds of thousands of daily riders are routinely tested with singletracking, delays, and train breakdowns. In its fifth Metro Hack Night last week, members of the...
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