Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • PBOT Getting Into Parklets?

    Looks like the City is rolling out a “Street Seats” program where you too can turn a parking space into a little bit of urbanism. Let’s hope the pilot program gets some traction. Congratulations to Rebecca Hamilton who pitched this idea as a student project in the Traffic and Transportation class in 2010!

  • Open Trip Planner Goes Production at TriMet

    I’ve enthused here before about what a game changer the Open Trip Planner is. TriMet has just announced that their implementation, which has been in beta for a number of months (and which many folks I know use as their first choice for a trip planning) is now released in production. Happy trips!

  • Transit Board(tm): New and Improved

    The original Transit Board UI The Transit Board™ display application has been the primary display mode for our Transit Appliance project, featuring a paging display ordered by the timing of vehicle arrival. It has served us well, but it’s not perfect. The display was somewhat busy and – especially when trying to display many lines…

  • KBOO Bike Show on Vacation…

    Tomorrow KBOO will rebroadcast this episode…

  • Could Your Smartphone Save Your Life?

    Via Slashdot: GM is working on technology that would allow a car to detect the WiFi in your smartphone and trigger collision avoidance systems. A boon to pedestrians and cyclists? The driver might be distracted, but the car won’t be?