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Transportation planners and modelers demand accurate and robust tools to conduct their everyday work. These tools require analytics and visualization based on a Big Data foundation.

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Highway, heal thyself Tom McKeag, greenbiz.com

On a recent drive along the dense highway corridor from New York to Boston, an hour-long traffic jam quickly put the brakes on a bright, sunny morning.

“It must be an accident," I thought.

But when I …

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5 Benefits of Telecommuting for Your Small Business Margaret Jacoby, huffingtonpost.com

Employees the world over want to work from home, but many small businesses shy away from allowing telecommuting in their place of work. Maybe it's because they are afraid of losing control over employees, or maybe it's because they don't know enou…

Jarrett at HumanTransit.org, humantransit.org

Read Eric Jaffe's piece today on the effect of microtransit (UberPool, LyftLine, Bridj, Leap) on our cities. The question about all these private operators, seeking to create something between large-scale transit and the private car, is this: Are…

Nicely nuanced piece. VERY concerned over the long-term implications for low-income and special need communities with this service.

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[email protected] (Scott Wong), thehill.com

A gas-tax hike is dead on arrival in Congress, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Tuesday.Transportation advocates have pushed to increase or index to inflation the 18.4-cents-per-gallon federal gas tax as lawmakers scramble to...

FHWA Will Help Cities Get Serious About Measuring Biking and Walking Angie Schmitt, streetsblog.org

This counter in San Francisco gives planners reliable, up-to-date data about bike trips on Market Street. Photo: Aaron Bialick/Streetsblog SFThe lack of good data on walking and biking is a big problem. Advocates say current metrics yield a spotty…

These new ride-sharing apps actually involve sharing rides Ben Adler, grist.org

Why are companies that enable you to order a cab with a smartphone labeled “ride-sharing” and lumped into the “sharing economy”? They are nothing of the sort, really. You don’t share a ride with an Uber driver any more than you share a cup of coff…

This article certainly misses the fact that there has been a lot of work on these types of apps for a number of years. Highlights the disconnect between the environmental and transportation media.

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Spending on our crumbling infrastructure By: David Wessel, brookings.edu

Larry Summers recently said something startling: “At this moment . . . the share of public investment in GDP, adjusting for depreciation, so that’s net share, is zero. Zero. We’re not net investing …

An interesting piece in looking at this in terms of depreciation instead of expenditure level.

Star Tribune Staff, startribune.com

Few would disagree that Minnesota’s transportation system is in tough shape, but it’s not just roads and bridges that are ailing.

The silver tsunami quote towards the end of the article is key...

The secret history of the taxi wars Heather Smith, grist.org

In part 1, we examine how Uber and Lyft are part of the great tempification of America.Setting: Evening. San Francisco. 1889. A businessman named F.S. Chadbourne disembarks from a ferry and grabs a ride from one of the horse-drawn taxis — o…

The best backgrounder on the taxi industry, and how Uber and Lyft really aren't that new, that I've seen yet.

John Oliver recruits all-star cast to make infrastructure sexy By Patrick Kevin Day, latimes.com

John Oliver never shies away from difficult or tangled subjects on "Last Week Tonight." He's tackled the net neutrality debate and the importance of the bills passed by state legislatures, neither of which are particularly sexy on the surface. But…

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American mass transit is dying Henry Grabar, salon.com

Three of the four largest systems in the country have been crippled this winter — and the worst is yet to come

The great transit systems of the Eastern Seaboard are in crisis.

In New York, the Metropolitan Transit Authority is operating a subw…

Good read that could use a bit more of a supporting data set.

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By Emily Badger March 4 at 12:49 PM Follow @emilymbadger

Seattle's "one regional card for all" transit card. Courtesy of Flickr user Oran Viriyincy under a Creative Commons license.

Earlier this week, transit agencies in and around Seattle…

Good explanation of the logic behind what was a political football in Seattle when proposed.

Murray Unveils “Move Seattle” Martin H. Duke, seattletransitblog.com

Priority ProjectsAmong the critiques Candidate Murray made of Seattle’s series of transportation master plans (Transit, Pedestrian, Bike, and Freight) was that the projects in those plans were neither properly integrated nor prioritized. Yesterday…

Good summary of the City of Seattle development wish list

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