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Businesses Take Responsibility for Advancing Sustainable Transportation
February 3, 2010 – 10:58 pm | No Comment

Businesses Take Responsibility for Advancing Sustainable Transportation

Mitch Jackson is the Director of Environmental Affairs & Sustainability for FedEx Corporation (and he also writes for the FedEx Citizenship Blog.) This month, FedEx is beginning work with EMBARQ — the producer of TheCityFix …

U.S. Colleges Score Big on Sustainable Transportation
October 26, 2009 – 11:04 pm | No Comment

U.S. Colleges Score Big on Sustainable Transportation

Is the recession putting the brakes on sustainable transportation projects? Not at colleges and universities, it seems. The 2010 College Sustainability Report Card, released earlier this month, gave 105 institutions an “A” for transportation. Only …

Persuading for Pedestrian Zones (Part 1)
October 2, 2009 – 2:09 am | One Comment

Persuading for Pedestrian Zones (Part 1)

The flows of both traffic and history move in sometimes mysterious ways. At the turn of the 21st century, cities, such as D.C., clamored to integrate the amazing new technology of automobiles.  As most urban …

CGI Live Blogging: Investing in Girls and Women…for Safer Public Transportation?
September 23, 2009 – 10:51 am | 3 Comments

CGI Live Blogging: Investing in Girls and Women…for Safer Public Transportation?

This morning’s plenary session on the second day of the Clinton Global Initiative was all about “Investing in Girls and Women.”
Moderated by acclaimed journalist Diane Sawyer, co-anchor of Good Morning America and Primetime, the discussion …

Transit Experts Discuss Cool Ideas for Mobility-Inspired Businesses
August 6, 2009 – 10:46 am | 2 Comments

Transit Experts Discuss Cool Ideas for Mobility-Inspired Businesses

Janette Sadik-Khan rides a bicycle to work. Photo via New York magazine.
Kate Rockwood of Fast Company magazine interviewed six entrepreneurial transit experts about how to get city dwellers out of their cars for the September …

Reduce Car Culture to Increase Access to Healthier Food
June 18, 2009 – 3:51 pm | 7 Comments

Reduce Car Culture to Increase Access to Healthier Food

By reducing parking space requirements, cities can reduce car culture – and encourage the development of healthier grocery stores – in underserved areas. Photo by Wenzday01
Today, the New York Times alerted me to a problem …

REPORT: Sustainable Transport that Works: Lessons from Germany
June 16, 2009 – 1:51 pm | 4 Comments

REPORT: Sustainable Transport that Works: Lessons from Germany

Freiburg, Germany is one of the most livable and people-oriented cities in the world. Photo by Roby©.
Transport and urban development policies in European cities are recognized as being more balanced than those of the rest …

Lessons From San Sebastian
May 28, 2009 – 11:09 am | No Comment

Lessons From San Sebastian

EMBARQ presents a slideshow about the concept of “Mobility Management (MM)” in San Sebastian, Spain.
View the entire slideshow here.
Mobility Management
At the core of Mobility Management are “soft” measures like information and communication, organising services and …

Cycle for Health: Recycling Bicycles to Save Lives in Rural Africa
May 15, 2009 – 9:57 am | No Comment

Cycle for Health: Recycling Bicycles to Save Lives in Rural Africa

The Cycle for Health logo, via the Buckminster Fuller Challenge Web site.
Yesterday, The City Fix wrote about the winners of the 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, a design competition to “support the development and implementation of …

Ode to Bicycling
April 22, 2009 – 9:34 am | No Comment

Ode to Bicycling

Kyle Boelte published an article in The Christian Science Monitor entitled “The Soul (and Sense) of Biking to Work.” While he makes both a wonderful, practical, and emotional appeal to would-be commuter bikers – …