Plug In and Drive
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transportation | Comments OffShai Agassi says his electric cars can save the world. People are listening. There’s a lot to chew over in Wired’s profile of Shai Agassi, the entrepreneur engaged in an audacious experiment to electrify an entire nation’s ...
Less Driving Means Less Dying
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transportation | Comments OffBy Eric de Place I'm a bit late on this, but it's still worth mentioning. Via the NY Times: Traffic deaths in the United States declined last year, reaching the lowest level in more than a decade, the ...
When is the next bus coming … exactly?
Friday, August 1st, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transportation | Comments OffOttawa has introduced "a new GPS fleet tracking system on OC Transpo buses to improve service". Even with such a system, there may be significant challenges to running buses precisely on time with variable traffic. ...
Cut Your Carbon and Save on Auto Insurance
Sunday, July 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transportation | Comments OffBy Adam Stern of Terra Pass. Pay-as-you-drive programs reward those who drive gently. Here’s another example of how the tortoise beats the hare. The insurance industry is starting to offer lower rates for drivers who drive ...
Do Gas Taxes Cover the Costs of Roads?
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transportation | Comments OffThe Texas highway department says no. I thought this was interesting. The Texas highway department – Texas, no less! -- says that roads simply don’t pay for themselves: … no road ...
Aviation X Prize
Friday, July 18th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transportation | Comments OffA couple years ago, I wrote a piece Why We Need An X Prize for Eco-Friendly Air Travel, encouraging a competitive approach towards innovating a way to slash air travel emissions: Air travel presents one of ...
Walk Score: Every Big-City Neighborhood in America
Thursday, July 17th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transportation | Comments Off40 cities, 2,058 neighboords, and one Walk Score to rule them all. By Eric De Place It's here! The biggest 40 cities in America ranked by their walkability. Plus, every single neighborhood in those cities -- all 2,508 ...
GM’s Big Bet: the Chevy Volt
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transportation | Comments OffThe Atlantic has a fun piece on GM's ambitious plan to bring the Volt to market by 2010. I generally don't go in for overripe tales of corporate heroism, and I definitely don't go in ...
TerraPass’ New and Improved Flight Emissions Calculator
Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transportation | Comments OffCarbon offset dealer TerraPass (with whom we're working on our Clean Slate offsets) recently launched a new version of their flight emissions calculator. The updated calculator uses data from go-to travel resource TRX to provide a ...
Moving House(s) By Pedal-Power
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transportation | Comments OffWe recently showed you a chair bungie-corded to the back of a bicycle. Scaling up a little, how do you move an entire apartment by bicycle? The Human Powered Vehicles Operators of Ottawa ...
Plugged In: WWF’s take on the V2G Hybrid
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transportation | Comments OffWhen we walk out our doors in 20 years to take a drive, what kind of a vehicle will we get in? The preferred answer, of course, is a pair of sturdy shoes or a well-maintained bike. ...
Vehicle-to-Grid Plug-In Hybrids, for Free
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transportation | Comments OffThis is interesting: In an analysis of the potential impacts of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles projected for 2020 and 2030 in 13 regions of the United States, ORNL researchers explored their potential effect on electricity demand, supply, ...
Vehicle-to-Grid Plug-In Hybrids, for Free
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transportation | Comments OffThis is interesting: In an analysis of the potential impacts of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles projected for 2020 and 2030 in 13 regions of the United States, ORNL researchers explored their potential effect on electricity demand, supply, ...
Get Your City On Google Transit
Thursday, March 13th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transportation | Comments OffGoogle posed a challenge to all the attendees of the American Public Transportation Association's recent TransITech conference: get your city on Google Transit by Earth Day 2008. We've written before about how great a tool ...
Driving in Circles
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transportation | Comments Offby Clark Williams-Derry Via Brad Plumer: a traffic jam in in a bottle. To me, it's pretty remarkable how closely the real-world experiment above matches up with this java-based computer traffic simulator. WARNING - if you click the last ...
Driving in Circles
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transportation | Comments Offby Clark Williams-Derry Via Brad Plumer: a traffic jam in in a bottle. To me, it's pretty remarkable how closely the real-world experiment above matches up with this java-based computer traffic simulator. WARNING - if you click the last ...
Carfree Cities Conference
Monday, March 3rd, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transportation | Comments Offby Brian Smith Portland, arguably America’s greenest city, will host the 2008 conference Towards Carfree Cities VIII: Rethinking Mobility, Rediscovering Proximity, from June 16-20, 2008. The conference will bring together activists and professionals from around the world ...
Art Center Mobility Summit: A Field Report
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transportation | Comments Offby Justus Stewart I. The Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, was the site of a conference last week titled “Systems, Cities & Sustainable Mobility.” The building is an adaptive reuse (most of the conference ...