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Driverless Cars and the Cult of Technology

By on September 7, 2018 in Cars, Culture, Development, Environment, History, Traffic, Transportation, Trends

We constantly hear that driverless cars are just around the corner. We’re told they will revolutionize transportation and enable us to continue using our car-based transport and land-use system. If they’re made by Tesla, they’ll be powered by magic, solar-powered, super efficient batteries and we’ll all be able to keep living our hyper-mobile, hyper-consumptive lifestyles […]

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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

By on May 18, 2018 in Roads, Transportation, Trends

Quite a furor surrounded the recent death of Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, AZ, her body broken by a ton of steel and glass, processors and sensors. The most perplexing aspect of the tragedy, though, was the subsequent frenzy of legislative action, an outpouring of posturing that revealed, if nothing else, the deep denial we as […]

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National Links: Urban Emissions Higher Than We Thought

By on March 12, 2018 in Land use, Transportation

Every day at The Overhead Wire we collect news about cities and send the links to our email list.  At the end of the week we take some of the most popular stories and post them to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the DC region.  […]

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Chart of the Day: Projected Decline of Individual Car Ownership

By on September 14, 2017 in Cars, Chart

Here’s an eye-opening chart for your Thursday. It comes from a RethinkX (a think tank) report released earlier this Spring. The report is titled “Rethinking Transportation 2020-2030: the disruption of transportation and the collapse of the internal-combustion vehicle and oil industries.” The chart shows a projected shift away from individual car ownership and to something […]

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Here to There Podcast Episode 5: EMPLOYMENT | drivers

By on June 23, 2017 in Podcast Network, Transportation

This week’s episode of Here to There looks at the rapidly changing transportation economy and the opportunities and challenges it presents for the over 5 million professional drivers (which include truck, taxi, school bus, and transit bus) in the United States. Au courant services like ride-hailing  (Uber, Lyft) and car-sharing services (Car2Go, ZipCar) are already disrupting traditional labor markets […]

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Chart of the Day: New York City Uber Effectiveness with and without Surge Pricing

By on June 1, 2017 in Chart, Economics

Here’s an interesting chart from The Economist (sent in by Board Member Dana Demaster) that centers on the effectiveness of “surge pricing” as used by Uber in Manhattan. Here you go: The concept of surge pricing is something that comes up a lot in urban design discussions, especially around solving issues like parking, transit fares, […]

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National: Parking Industrial Complex, SXSW Complaints, and Rail to the Strip

By on March 27, 2017 in Land use, Transportation

Every day at The Direct Transfer we collect news about cities and send the links to our email list.  At the end of the week we take some of the most popular stories and post them to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the DC region.  […]

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National Links: Eminent Domain, Cafe Urbanism, and Company Towns

By on March 8, 2017 in Land use, Transportation

Every day at The Direct Transfer we collect news about cities and send the links to our email list.  At the end of the week we take some of the most popular stories and post them to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the DC region.  […]

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Chart of the Day: US Metro Areas Ranked by Ridesharing Usage

By on October 25, 2016 in Transportation, Trends

Here’s another great chart from Portland-based City Observatory showing the number of people who work driving ridesharing cars like Uber and Lyft per capita (the so-called “gig economy”). It’s not carsharing per se (so does not include car2go or Hourcar), but a chart based on (self)employment statistics. Here’s how the data was collected: We want […]

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The Direct Transfer: Boston’s Two Halves, Urban Political History and More!

By on October 10, 2016 in Land use, Transportation

Every day at The Direct Transfer we collect news about cities and send the links to our email list. At the end of the week we take some of the most popular stories and post them to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the DC region. […]

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