Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Digging up the blog

Hi team,

I've gone through the team blog and pulled out some posts related to movement and cities that we may be able to use for the wall poster or serve as a launching pad for some of your research:

Investigation

Where are all the automatic cars? (Looking into what happened to the technology, what's ahead)

Where did all the PRTs go? (Looking into what happened to the Personal Rapid Transit technology)

How LA, Tokyo, Houston, and New York developed and looking into what caused them to become "transit cities" vs "car cities"


Data


Historical Cost of Cars

Clogged Arteries (Economic loss of congestion in the US)

University of Tokyo's forecast for Tokyo

Urban Movements (how to categorize urban movements, statistics from the US)

Two categorization of cities (How to define cities, examples of some)

Fuel Economy in the US

Megacity Measures

Dynamics of Urban Change (How changes in cities are caused)

Components and Performance of Urban Transit System

City Population S-Curves

City Population Data and more

Gapminder - Great source for all sorts of data on countries


Articles and Anecdotes:

Underground bicycle parking from Tokyo

Welcome to the Movement Economy

Dean Kamen talks about the Segway

Slumping car sales in Japan (Why the young people aren't buying it)
and my analysis

Crazy Concept Cars from Japan

The View from the Road


Visions of Urban Mobility

Sick Transit from HBR 2008 et al

Future of Transportation from the Past

Infrastructure limits

Automobile's future is electronic and green: GM chief

Mobility and Affluence and Sushi's Response

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