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TriMet Unveils All-Electric Test Bus
TriMet held a press event today to unveil an all-electric bus. The bus is on loan to the agency by the manufacturer, BYD Motors, for testing and demonstration purposes for the next two weeks. I attended the event today, took a short demo ride, and interviewed TriMet and BYD representatives for this video. The bus…
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Hack on the Transit Appliance Next Week
Last week I mentioned that TriMet had released a set of upgraded APIs. Now it looks like I’ll get a chance to play with them – and I hope you’ll join me! I’ve been asked to lead a session on the new APIs at next week’s TriMet Hackathon. Skip Newberry, President of the Technology Association…
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Hail Mary Pass to Save the Highway Trust Fund
T4America supports an effort in the Senate for a twelve-cent increase in the Federal gas tax.
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TriMet APIs Keep Getting Better
TriMet is holding their second developer event, a hackathon, in conjunction with the Open Source Bridge conference in a couple of weeks. Today, in preparation for the hackathon, TriMet released version 2 of their arrivals API, including information on detours, delayed vehicles and even experimental features like how heavily loaded a bus is… The also…
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The Longer You Car Share, The Less You Car Share
This article looks at car sharing, attempting to figure out how many cars are removed from our streets, and what the impact on VMT is. The consensus is 9-13 cars per sharing vehicle (compared to claims of up to 32 cars). But the really interesting finding is that there is substantial VMT reduction even though…