Friday Fun: Bike-friendly cafe rolls into Zurich
By nik.clayton.
The morning coffee run just got easier. With many cities around the world seeking to become more bicycle-friendly, Zurich, Switzerland has just taken it to the next level. At the Rathaus Cafe, overlooking the Limmat River in Zurich, cyclists commuting ...
Will Jordan get its advanced bus system?
Amman. By David Bjorgen.
For outside observers, Queen Rania Street, a bustling thoroughfare in central Amman, has an odd feature running for two kilometers down the center of the road: a vacant lane. It has been adopted by cyclists as an unofficial bike lane, ...
Friday Fun: Mapping a day in the life of the London transport system
The Camden Town tube station, one of the busiest in the London underground system. Photo by zer0_pt.
TheCityFix discovered what quite possibly could be the world’s coolest transport-related master’s thesis project-recap video. The recent debut of the BRT in Action Newsletter, published by Santiago, Chile’s Centre of Excellence for Bus Rapid Transit, included a link to Jay ...
Connecting sustainable transport to urban development in India
Chowpatty cityscape, Mumbai, India. Photo by Tom Spender.
In 2011, nearly 350 million people lived in Indian cities. More than 300 million new residents will join them over the next few decades to become part of the new urban India. This population boom will stress an already-pressured urban infrastructure ...
Sedentary lifestyle kills more than smoking
Cycling in Moema, south of São Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Blog do Mílton Jung.
Some actions, such as hopping in your car to go to the bakery, may be putting your life at risk. This week in the online journal, Galileu, Professor I-Min Lee, from the School of Public Health at Harvard University, draws ...
Natural gas and low-sulfur diesel meet again
Johannesburg, South Africa. Photo by Aileen Carrigan - EMBARQ.
This is the second round of a two-part series weighing the benefits of natural gas versus low-sulfur diesel as fuel sources for buses. Natural gas won Round I because when we focus on tailpipe emissions it is less toxic, and ...
São Paulo to integrate bike-sharing with other modes in a single transport pass
Bike-sharing set to expand in Sao Paulo. Photo by Fora do Eixo.
With each passing day, the bike is increasingly becoming part of the urban landscape of São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city. Desiring to more fully integrate bikes as a transport mode – not just recreation – the city of São Paulo ...
World Health Organization report connects road safety with mass transport
A young rider enjoying Transoeste, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo by Mariana Gil - EMBARQBrasil.
On March 14, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its latest Global Status Report on Road Safety, previously published in 2009. The Global Status Report is the authoritative document for traffic safety. The 2009 publication of the report included just ...
The three pillars of successful urban development in Seoul
Relaxing after work along Cheonggyecheon stream, Seoul, South Korea. By longzijun.
In her February post on sustainable urban development, EMBARQ expert Robin King posed the question: “What does good urban development mean to you?” Keeping people in mind, she identified three key areas for action to produce good urban development: Providing ...
Safer mobility, safer climate
A pedestrian crossing in Singapore. Photo by Scania Group.
Each time we travel extra miles in private cars, we emit more CO2, and we create more traffic related deaths and injuries (see data from the International Energy Agency and the World Health Organization). Each year 1.3 million die from ...