#xtransit

Extra-urban Mobility Revolution Coming to your Doorstep

If I live outside of a city — say, in a spread-suburb, rural area, commuter town or other hard to serve low density area — and if I happen not own a car, or on days when my car is not available, I am going to have a hard time getting to work or wherever it is I need to go this morning.  In principle I have a few choices, for example: (a)  Get down on my knees and beg for a ride from family or…

Convergence: Understanding the New Mobility Paradigm – European Citizens Mobility Forum, Brussels 23 March 2015

The purpose of this first exploratory workshop hosted by the European Citizens Mobility Forum(ECMF) is to solicit peer reviews, critical commentary and action recommendations on the part  of the expert participants on the ideas and proposals set out for the group by the invited speaker.  Observations and recommendations both from the vantage of their specific organizations, and more generally to…

Op-Ed. “Taxis as we know them are expected to disappear”

All of the protests taking place at varying levels of violence in different parts of the world against Uber and Uber-like taxi and shared-transport services are definitely not just an example of a one-shot phenomenon that will resolve itself in different ways in different places but shortly go away, leaving things largely as they always were in our sensationally inefficient mobility arrangements…

Planning Disorganized Transit Systems

We are about one sixth of the way  through this very different 21st century, an era  not of “order”  in the older sense, but rather of chaos.  Chaos however  is not the end,  it is only the beginning.  And while we are on the topic this in from Jarrett Walker in his blog Human Transit in which he reminds us of the power and potential of informal transport.  His concluding recommendation is…