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4 minutes of reading • Mobility Lab, Research, Transport

American Cities’ Biggest Transportation Innovation is Decidedly Low-Tech

American cities are experiencing a major transportation shift from car-centric policies to people-oriented streets, with increased bus and bike lanes, bike-sharing, and public spaces. A TransitCenter report credits local civic groups, city leadership, and transportation agencies for these lasting changes. The report recommends strategies for reinforcing such innovations, including political support and internal advocacy, acknowledging a societal move towards walkable urban areas and the need for continued local action to sustain this trend.

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3 minutes of reading • Mobility Lab, Research, Tech, Transport

Transit’s Surprising Advantage is Sitting Right in your Pocket

With public-transit use riding a 58-year high of 10.8 billion trips last year, it only makes sense to ask: why? Technology may be partially responsible for public transit’s record ridership, but probably not in the way you think.

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1 minute of reading • Mobility Lab, Transport, Videos

What Would Make your Commute Better?

Jeff Bezos’ $250 million purchase of The Washington Post in 2014 changed the direction of the newspaper in some fairly significant ways. Among them: The Posts’s focus became less local and more global, it began expanding digital access dramatically (promoted by the Kindle, of course), and started spending some serious cash on events. One of these events is the America Answers series.

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3 minutes of reading • Mobility Lab, Research, Tech, Transport

Uber’s Plan for Self-Driving Cars Will Make its Taxi Disruption Look Quaint

Uber has fundamentally changed the taxi industry, but its biggest disruption may be yet to come. The ride-hailing company has invested in autonomous-vehicle research, and its CEO Travis Kalanick (pictured above) has indicated that consumers can expect a driverless Uber fleet by 2030.

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3 minutes of reading • Mobility Lab, Planning, Research

New Research Reveals the Cost of Sprawl to Municipal Coffers

Dispersed, car dependent land use patters — sprawl for short — is more expensive for cities than a pattern of development favoring density. That’s the takeaway from a report by Smart Growth America.

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3 minutes of reading • Mobility Lab, Tech, Transport, Wash DC

D.C. Entrepreneurs Still Focused on Transportation

Washington D.C.-based shared-ride company Split was one of two transportation startups who participated in the Tech.Co Startup Competition last month, showing that Washington remains a prolific incubator of transportation-related startups, and that entrepreneurs believe there are additional transportation problems that need solving.

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3 minutes of reading • Mobility Lab, Planning, Research

Businesses are Moving Back Downtown

The deciding factor in Panasonic’s move of its North American headquarters from Secaucus, New Jersey to Newark was public transportation, according to Jim Reilly, Vice President of Corporate Communications.

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5 minutes of reading • Controversial, Cycling, How-To, Mobility Lab

Slow Down! And Four Other Rules to Make People Love Cyclists

Just as there are two Americas, there are two types of cyclists. First, there are the Cyclists with a capital “C,” clad in Lycra and obsessed with speed. These cyclists may spend upwards of $1,000 on a bike, are often male, and everything about them signals that cycling is not for us mortals. These adrenaline junkies consider traffic laws mere “suggestions.”

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high angle shot of suburban neighborhood

4 minutes of reading • Mobility Lab, Research, Wash DC

D.C. Housing May be Less Expensive than the Suburbs

The conventional wisdom is that living in the city is much more expensive than living outside of it. Taxes, entertainment, and groceries all add up to a slightly higher cost of living in the city. Housing, though, is the expense that tips the scales decidedly in favor of the suburbs. Or does it?

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4 minutes of reading • Arlington, Cycling, Mobility Lab, Research, Wash DC

The Good and the Bad of the Capital Bikeshare Member Survey

Capital Bikeshare’s 2014 Member Survey indicates that even as Washington D.C.’s bikeshare service has grown by leaps and bounds, its users have become older, whiter, and wealthier.

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4 minutes of reading • Mobility Lab, Research, Tech, Transport

How Much Should Uber be Regulated?

Sharing-economy companies like Uber, Lyft, and AirBnB continue to disrupt industries as they create services that are incredibly appealing to consumers. Whatever your opinion on these companies, the decision regarding if, and how much, they should be regulated is important. It will help determine the speed of technological innovation in the U.S. and the direction our economy takes.

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father guiding her daughter riding a bike

3 minutes of reading • Arlington, Cycling, Mobility Lab

A First Look at Arlington’s New Bike-Ped Safety Messaging

Arlington hasn’t unveiled its new PAL marketing campaign yet, but Mobility Lab received a preview of it. Soon to show up on ART buses, in Arlington Metro stations, and local newspapers, the new series of ads are colorful and friendly in their gentle and light-hearted admonition for drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists to show each other a little love and share the road.

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2 minutes of reading • Cycling, Mobility Lab, Wash DC

Unlimited Bikeshare Parking? Yeah, We Got That.

We already know that an overwhelming amount of Capital Bikeshare members are really happy to have this cost-saving, healthy, non-polluting, and auto-traffic-alleviating transportation option available in the Washington D.C. region. Now there’s yet another reason for them to love the system.

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the us capitol white house near a lake at night

2 minutes of reading • Mobility Lab, Research, Wash DC

Is Washington D.C. One of the Worst Cities for Drivers?

File this one under “lists you don’t want to appear on.” Consumer finance website NerdWallet has released a list of the top 10 Worst Cities for Car Drivers. Washington D.C., number two on the list, proves once again that the term “gridlock” doesn’t just apply to the city’s politics.

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3 minutes of reading • Cycling, Mobility Lab, Research

A Bikeshare Station on Every Corner?

A new study from the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) says people use bikeshare more when a given area has more stations. But the study makes a density recommendation that’s going to be hard to ever meet, and not everyone agrees it’s a good idea in the first place.

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