9/16/2016
A very potent combination of forces has emerged in the growth center of North Carolina where managers of a public-interest commercial district pride themselves in state-of-the-art development and land management.
Research Triangle Park (RTP) is in the center of the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel metrople...
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8/15/2016
Sorry,
Governor Cuomo, leader of the Empire State: your planners and policy-makers
lack vision. A new century is upon us, and it does not help to dwell in 20th
century thinking.
The
Hudson Valley is a centrally located, hilly, treed region with abundant fresh
water that runs south with a mighty ...
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6/28/2016
US DOT invested
significant research and development resources into possible new modes of
ground transport in the early 1970s. Out of its AGT programs came many airport
APM applications, a few amusement rides and, in Europe, driverless metros. Also
studied, with little result, were AHS - automated ...
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5/11/2016
PRT’s CONUNDRUM
Why the
business case for personal rapid transit is blocked.
Lawrence J.
Fabian, Trans.21 and Stan Young, NREL
May 2016
Urban transport policy-makers have new street-based mobility
options. The emergence of robo-cars, robo-cabs, robo-delivery vehicles,
robo-vans and robo-b...
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3/19/2016
Mass ownership of cars surged after WW-II causing massive
congestion and urban flight in the US. Eisenhower sealed the problematic deal
in the 1950s in the deteriorating Interstate Highways that put down a
continental network. It ripped apart cities. Transit use declined dramatically.
Urban cores w...
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1/22/2016
Some twenty professionals and enthusiasts at the Technix workshop organized by ATRA at the University of Maryland on January 9 engaged in a
charrette for several hours divided into three teams, each assigned to think
out to 2040 and modern mobility in three different settings. Before...
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