Los Angeles-to-Las Vegas rail line may spur local development
Brightline Aims High After Years of Hopes
High-Speed Rail Kicks Off Florida Service as a Model for California and Beyond
Microtransit Changing the Landscape
App-based Rides Get Into the Public Transit Game
A Turning Point for Malls
Shopping malls, built as meccas of U.S. retailing and mainstays of suburban life, had been suffering for a decade or more due to a “retail apocalypse” brought on by the rise of online shopping.
Storefront Service Centers Put Transit Agencies on Solid Footing
Transit agencies, whether they run buses, trains, ferries, bike share systems, or other mediums of mobility, exist in a state of paradox. While their vehicles, signage and street furniture is highly visible and they serve millions of customers each year, many lack a physical connection with their customers. But some transit providers are working to change that.
Creating Complete Streets
There is no such thing as “a” complete street. No single street is “complete.” Complete streets encompasses more of an idea—and an attitude—than a typology.
Cities Zero In On Road Road Safety
Ambitious, Rapidly Expanding Vision Zero Movement Seeks to End Vehicular Deaths
Ride-Hailing Apps Go the Extra Mile
By some accounts, Uber and Lyft, which are each operating in dozens of metro areas around the country, have only one major challenge left to overcome. It is the one that has baffled transportation planners, highway builders, soccer moms and weary executives for generations: mobility in the suburbs.
Transit Branding’s Virtuous Cycle
If a beer company can fool the public into throwing away its money on the same old product, then aren’t transit agencies doing the very same thing when they promoting and rebrand themselves?
Smart Branding Attracts the Masses to Mass Transit
Today, transit agencies are abandoning the passive approach to ridership. A confluence of design technologies, communication technologies, new trends in urban development and—perhaps most importantly—a cultural shift among young, smartphone-wielding city-dwellers has led to a new, more sanguine approach to the promotion of transit.
Ahead of the Curb
Megabus and BoltBus rolled out brand new coaches, appealing liveries, easily navigable websites, relatively low prices, and, not insignificantly, curbside pick-up and drop-off. They endeavored to be everything that the conventional bus companies were not.
USA TOD-ay
Transit-Oriented Developments Multiplied and Held Their Values Comparatively Well in the Housing Crisis. Will the Trend Continue Post-Recession?
For Transit Agencies, Terrorists Are Moving Targets
Fear of terrorists using the county’s rail network as a vehicle of destruction is all too real in the post-9/11 world.
Transit Agencies Find New On-Ramps to the Information Superhighway
Social media’s stock on the rise as a tool to reach the public
Transit Agencies Find New On-Ramps to the Information Superhighway
Social Media’s Stock on the Rise As a Tool to Reach the Public
Putting Parking into Reverse
As parking requirements facilitate the use of cars, total travel increases, public transit use decreases, buildings scoot farther away from each other, density diminishes, central cities go into tailspins and sprawl increases-all of which, in turn, increases the need for more parking.
You Can’t Spell Subsidy Without B-U-S
A certain radical fringe contends that the benefits of free transit — that is, transit with a 100 percent subsidy (a la schools) — would pay for itself many times over. That might sound a little nuts, except that it’s hard to define a substantive difference between the argument in favor of fare-free transit and that in favor of toll-free roads.
Shoup Shows Cities How to “Just Say No” to Parking
Cities that have no money for infrastructure investments, are crushed by byzantine planning codes, or are otherwise skittish about upsetting the status quo now have no excuse not to consider parking reform.