Tag: Transportation
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Long Beach to get wireless chargers for their new electric buses
Inductive charging is coming to public transportation in Long Beach, California, with the addition of two wireless charging stations for its electric buses.
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Dear Subaru: It's a bad idea to call your target audience a bunch of smelly loud bums
The car company has been stereotyped for years, but that hasn't stopped them from peddling every tired cliche about transit.
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Obama administration wants to add 10,000 hybrids to government's fleet
The U.S. government manages a huge fleet vehicles, mostly through the General Service Administration (GSA) which oversee 210,000 vehicles directly.
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Driving is so 1995, chart shows
For the last eight years, VMT (vehicle miles travelled) has been dropping; we are now back to 1995's levels. Seems the kids don't care (as much) about cars.
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Greenpeace Campaign Calls for Energized, "Badass" Politicians to Fight CO2
An animated campaign video from Greenpeace delivers gobs of computerized ultra-violence, but for a cause.
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NYC's subway track geometry car blends high- and low-tech
Beneath the city that never sleeps, MTA's "track geometry car" worms it's way through New York's subway tunnels, using a menagerie of sensors and cameras to inspect the tracks.
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Street experiment: How many NYC drivers fail to signal when turning?
How many drivers fail to use their blinkers, endangering everybody else on the road?
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London's annual Design Museum Competition winners announced
It's the Academy Awards of the design world, so let's see who's in the running.
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What if all subways in North-America were connected?
Just for the heck of it, Randall Munroe, mastermind behind the geek-favorite webcomic XKCD, has created a map showing all of North-America's subways connected, from Canada to Mexico.
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24.6 MPG: March 2013 was a record month for fuel economy in U.S.
The average fuel economy of new vehicles sold in the U.S. is still inching up month after month, hitting a new record of 24.6 MPG in March 2013.
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Americans have been driving less since 2005
This multi-year trend cannot be explained away by only gas prices or the recession, though those have certainly played a role.
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Here is a good idea: The Personal Subway Car where you can do all those horrible things in private
It is an April Fools gag from Toronto's Transit Commission with a serious message: get along and don't be disgusting.
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China increases 2020 fuel economy standard to 47 MPG
The U.S. fuel economy CAFE standards of 34.1 MPG by 2016 and 54.5 MPG by 2025 were an important step in the right direction after decades of near-stagnation, and others are starting to follow suit.
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Should we stop flying and live in a "Hundred Mile Habitat"?
TreeHugger founder Graham Hill likes to travel, and gets taken to task for his carbon footprint. Should he be?
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This safer cyclist-friendly truck design could save many lives
Even if you've never driven a single mile in your entire life, a lot of what you own and what you eat has spent hundreds of miles inside a truck. We need to make them safer for pedestrian and cyclists.
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There's nothing new about streamlined aerodynamic transport trucks
A 1935 proposal would deliver an entire house in a super-slick streamlined package
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The problem with cars in the city: "Possession combined with brute force make up ten-tenths of the law"
The big villain isn’t the internal combustion engine, it’s the car.
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'SuperTruck' has 54% better fuel economy than the average long-haul truck
Even if you've never driven a single mile in your entire life, a lot of what you own and what you eat has spent hundreds of miles inside a truck.
