by Christina Olsen | Jun 27, 2017 | Global Mobility Research, Mobility
This interview series is made possible by the Volvo Research and Education Foundations. Each month we feature a leading thinker from VREF’s Future Urban Transport program. Meeting of the Minds took a few moments to talk with Jacqueline Klopp about using technology to...
by Deborah Hoover | Jun 26, 2017 | Economy, Society
I travel frequently on behalf of Burton D Morgan Foundation, visiting other regions in the United States where entrepreneurship is thriving. I am especially happy when flights take the dramatic approach to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport that allows for a...
by Gordon Feller | Jun 22, 2017 | Mobility
This is the second article in a series exploring new technological innovations that are disrupting regional and urban mobility. For more, read the first article in the series, linked here. The leaders of urban transit authorities and public transport agencies now...
by Peter Williams, Chief Technology Officer, Big Green Innovations, IBM | Jun 21, 2017 | Smart Cities, Technology
Steven Hawking recently commented that artificial intelligence (AI) would be “either the best thing or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity”. He was referring to the opportunity that AI offers to improve mankind’s situation, set alongside the risks that it also...
by Lyle Wray | Jun 20, 2017 | Mobility
The general press and transportation specialty publications are bursting with reports of new developments in four major disruptive transportation technologies: Shared rides Electric vehicles Autonomous vehicles Connected vehicles As we look back on the auto revolution...
by Matt Caywood | Jun 19, 2017 | CommonWealth Series, Mobility
Transportation in cities is changing rapidly as new technology-enabled mobility options like bikesharing, carsharing, and ridesharing emerge. Our mission at TransitScreen is to make information about these proliferating public and private mobility choices accessible...
by Ellory Monks | Jun 15, 2017 | Infrastructure
When I was in college, there was always a disconnect between the “civil” and “environmental” parts of my Civil/Environmental Engineering degree. Sometimes it even seemed like the nerds and the hippies were locked in a quiet (but epic!) struggle over the future of the...
by Joan Chase | Jun 14, 2017 | Society, Technology
All my life I have loved cities and strived to understand them. What makes a certain block bustle? Can that historic building be revived? How to connect residents separated by a major thoroughfare? These days I am lucky enough to be thinking about these questions full...
by Stephen Burrington | Jun 13, 2017 | Infrastructure, Society, Urban Parks
Mark Twain once advised, “Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.” In many low-income city neighborhoods, that may seem impossible. The land’s been consumed; built on, paved over, or contaminated, and none is left at any price for parks or other greenspace. But many...
by Gordon Feller | Jun 12, 2017 | Mobility
Digitization continues to plough its way through whole industries, changing such old worlds as retail and finance in ways big and small. In the world of mobility and transport, a number of forces are driving massive shifts in the expectations and the needs of those...
by Gorka Espiau Idoiaga | Jun 6, 2017 | Society
At the end of the 1970s, the Basque Country was emerging from forty years of dictatorship in which any expression of local culture had been repressed. The area was experiencing an industrial collapse that generated high unemployment and an international image directly...
by Greta Byrum | Jun 5, 2017 | Climate Resiliency, Infrastructure
“Often the most holistic ideas come from places with fewer resources, where people think about how technology and media can support solutions rooted in their communities” – Diana Nucera, Detroit Community Technology Project We are only starting to understand the...
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