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$35 Transit Appliance?
I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how relatively easy it was to get our Transit Appliance software stack running on the Raspberry Pi. I’m using the Raspian OS (a variant of Debian) and the Midori web browser (webkit based). I suppose I shouldn’t be too surprised, since the ARM11-family processor and 512MB of RAM are substantially…
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Featured Class Presentation: Broadway/Flint/Wheeler
Each year, I like to call out one outstanding presentation from the Traffic and Transportation Class. This year I have to plead to some bias since I’ve been aware of this effort for some time. But it’s also not every project that’s already been submitted by the City to ODOT for funding. There are also…
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Where Would You Put Transit Stations in the Southwest Corridor?
Metro has a new on-line planning tool up for the Southwest Corridor project. It lets you choose where you think the station areas should be for High Capacity Transit (but you only get to pick five!) and also gets your input on modal and community investments. Check it out, it’s called “Shape Southwest”.
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Another Year, Another Great Set of Class Presentations
Every fall I look forward to participating in the panel discussion during the Traffic and Transportation Class presentations of student projects (even more so this year because I had to miss last year due to a conflict). Each year the standard gets higher and higher, and this year is no exception! Later in the week…