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Department of Public Transportation Headquarters in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. Photo by Drew Alt.
It’s 4:00 p.m. on a Wednesday and I am sitting shirtless at a hotel in southeastern Nigeria. I am not at the office because electricity from the grid was no longer and there was no diesel for the generator. My laptop gave me the “I need juice, please” message then promptly shut down.
I arrived in Nigeria in February 2010 as part of IBM’s Corporate Service Corps, a program that sends teams of “IBMers” for short-term consulting assignments in emerging markets. With me are 14 other top employees from around the world, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Hungary, India, Japan, Malaysia, Holland, United Kingdom, and the United States.
For the next four weeks I will be working with the Department of Public Transportation (DOPT) to enhance the management and operations of the public transport system in Cross River State. Together with my project partner Vicky Chin, from IBM Canada, we have been asked by the DOPT to tackle three main objectives:
Google Maps now has directions for cyclists!
In 2005, Google started offering directions for car drivers, then two years later, it added transit routes. The map navigation expanded to pedestrians in 2008. We’ve already written about …
Raising the price of gas to $7 per gallon may be necessary to meet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2020 targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 14 percent, says a new report from Harvard’s …
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Today is International Women’s Day, a celebration observed since 1911 to recognize the economic, political and social achievements of women around the world. Eric Britton at World Streets wrote a commemorative piece on how …
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The U.N. General Assembly proclaimed on Tuesday that 2011-2020 will be the “Decade of Action for Road Safety,” recognizing the “tremendous global burden” of fatalities and injuries resulting from road crashes each year.
Road traffic …
Welcome to TheCityFix Picks, our new series highlighting the newsy and noteworthy of the past week. Each Friday, we’ll run down the headlines falling under TheCityFix’s five general themes: mobility, quality of life, environment, public …
Last week, Mexico City came a couple steps closer to reducing the 5 million vehicles that pass through it each day with the launch of its new bike sharing program, Ecobici. The Federal …
Los segundos pisos atienden la demanda de una ciudad que vive bajo un concepto de individualidad que ya no responde a las necesidades de las megalópolis del Siglo XXI. Es preciso desarrollar un diseño inteligente de sistemas de transporte público que permitan la reducción de emisiones contaminantes. Las soluciones parciales, focalizadas, no sistémicas, envían el falaz mensaje de “resolver el problema de movilidad”, empero…
Last Friday, sustainable transport advocates came a step closer to gaining widespread support for Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in India when Bangalore officials announced that the government will move ahead with the implementation of the …
They’ve been all over the news lately – the Chevrolet Volt, the Nissan Leaf, the Tesla Roadster. And they’re coming soon: Electric vehicles are expected to hit the streets late this year. If …
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