Uber and other car sharing and ride sharing startups have grown quickly as alternatives for urban transportation that are enabled by mobile technology.
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An expert on urban transportation technology, Sperling says the most obvious change consumers can expect in future transportation is increased prevalence of hybrid and pure-electric vehicles.
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The Segway Human Transporter may or may not change the face of urban transportation, save the environment and bring back Elvis, but it is a pisser to ride.
With that comes opportunities of great interventions, new projects, rethinking urban transportation, creating vast new park systems, and experimenting with urban design strategies that might improve the quality of urban life.
If he wants to scapegoat Congress and the Federal government for shorting cities on housing, Bloomberg has an immense repertoire to choose from: the flat out failure of foreclosure policies, anti-urban transportation funding, lending that stifles mixed-use developments, and so on.
Notes from the Shuttle, for instance, is named not for a common urban mode of transportation but for its more extreme NASA counterpart.
Suburban sprawl is out and is replaced with higher-density urban areas with multiple transportation options.
Urban Guidance considers public transportation options, such as trains, trams, busses and water taxis, whencalculating pedestrian routes.
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Bidois also discouraged the use of public transportation in urban areas and warned that caution should be taken at beaches, especially in El Salvador.
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The most obvious growth area for natural gas in transportation is for urban fleets (taxis, buses and other service vehicles) that have access to a central refueling facility.
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His separate venture capital fund, Fontinalis Partners, has been investing in transportation companies that provide urban mobility services.
This shift to smaller-scaled cities, as Michigan State's Zachary Neal points out, has been conditioned by massive improvements in telecommunications and transportation infrastructure throughout the urban world.
Obama was joined at the meeting by Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General Eric Holder, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
For travel delays, we used the Texas Transportation Institute's 2005 Urban Mobility Report, which compiled the annual delay per traveler for urban areas.
On the up side, though, New York state's per capita income ranks 16th nationally, and its urban population makes heavy use of public transportation.
Last week, the Texas Transportation Institute released its annual Urban Mobility Report, a collection of terrifying traffic stats that arrive on a beeline to transit beat reporters.
The Madrid bombings reveal just how vulnerable the transportation system of a major urban area can be, and whoever carried out this attack in London certainly learned that lesson well.
Claim to fame: Driven by their mission to create a universal digital language for urban living centered around the areas of transportation, navigation and entertainment, founders of MCW participated in Big Apple Apps contest hosted by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the City of New York and won in three different categories.
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This planning process should include measures to encourage compaction of the urban landscape, along with more efficient public transportation.
With Urban Guidance users are able to integrate public transportation into their route, complete with detailed itineraries of transit stops.
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Eco-friendly Philly boasts some 220 miles of bike lanes, good public transportation and the crown jewel of urban parks, 9, 200-acre Fairmount Park.
Ballantine had pledged to cut personal and corporate income tax rates and to use state transportation funding for roads rather than urban rail projects.
Matson's story is a reminder of a growing problem in many of the nation's busy, sprawling urban landscapes: More people are using bikes for transportation amid a culture and infrastructure designed for automobiles.
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At the federal level, one innovative solution can be found in the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, a collaboration of the Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD), the Department of Transportation ( DOT), and the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA).
The federal government provides help to cities through the Department of Transportation, though the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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New construction, forced to the periphery by restrictions and the high costs of urban development, will promote sprawl and dependence on expensive transportation options.
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When this all began I never dreamed my work would start a national movement in urban revitalization, or that I would be receiving this incredible Transportation Innovators Champion of Change award from the White House and the Department of Transportation.
At the Intelligent Transportation Society of America conference here, Portland outlined its urban ITS project, dubbed TransPort.
Images of people on the move in bicycles, airplanes, and pubic transportation dot the New City and attempt to harness what urban means in contemporary society.
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