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Deeper Dive on Nextbus
Following up on our initial questions about cases in which the Nextbus arrival information system used by Portland Streetcar might be not entirely accurate, two PSU class project teams took their own look. I had a chance to sit in on the team project presentations, which are now posted online. The headline is that while…
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The Greening of the Suburbs
A post on Planetizen today offers a link to a Newsday article discussing the future of suburbs in America. Triggered by recent efforts in Nassau County, New York, Scott Carlin, an associate professor of geography at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, offers suggestions for reversing the trends of individualism and consumerism and…
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Easier To Love A Streetcar Than A Light Rail
What’s in a name? Well, maybe not much in Shakespeare’s time, but in our present-day society of perception-beats-reality, word association means quite a bit. This article, relayed via Planetizen, discusses this concept with respect to rail-based transportation: Streetcar vs. Light Rail “It bugs me that such an awkward, engineering-specific term – light rail – has…
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Where to go with Bus Technology
A number of things have been happening with the development of bus transit technology available in the United States in the past decade. We’ve seen: Widespread deployment of Diesel-electric hybrid buses in cities such as New York and Seattle British-style double-decker buses on the Las Vegas Strip and now being evaluated in San Francisco Special…