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Would You Like Fries with Your Sprawl?
I’m told that the room for the weekly PSU Transportation Seminars now allows food and drink. Take advantage at this presentation: Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Winter 2011 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Joe Cortright, Impresa Topic: How Sprawl is Lengthening our Commutes and Why Misleading Mobility Measures are Making Things Worse Abstract: This…
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Walkscore Getting Smarter
One of the criticisms of Walkscore has been that it used “as-the-crow-flies” distance calculations to amenities, so addresses got credit for access to amenities that might not actually be accessible by foot (on the other side of a freeway for example). Well, that’s changing. There’s now a beta of a version that calculates actual walking…