Research Recap, December 3rd: Londoners Ditch Cars, $1.9 Trillion Saved, Electric Vehicles' Counterproductively
Rail and bus use are way up in London.
Welcome to “Research Recap,” our series highlighting recent reports, studies and other findings in sustainable transportation policy and practice, in case you missed it. Londoners’ Rail, Bus-Centric Lifestyle London is leading the U.K. wide drop in auto-use and licensing of ...
Friday Fun: It's A Bird! It's A Plane! It's a …Gondola!
Some concept stations for urban gondola systems. Courtesy of Frog Design.
  Here at EMBARQ, we perform research and share best practices across a wide gambit of the ground transportation spectrum: from buses and their fuels, to pedestrians and their safety. Gondolas, however, fall somewhere in between surface transport and …skyways. ...
Global BRT Webinar To Be Held Tomorrow
BRT systems move 24 million people over 3,781 kilometres of road daily. Photo by Erwin Morales.
Mark your calendars! The Across Latitudes and Cultures  – Bus Rapid Transit Centre of Excellence (ALC-BRT) is announcing a monthly webinar series to share timely public transit research and encourage ongoing international collaboration across the BRT space. The series is ...
Apply for the Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship!
Apply for the Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship!
  The Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship is now seeking applicants to innovate for sustainable transport. Lee was a founder of EMBARQ and dedicated his professional life to the efficient use of energy in mobility. An astrophysicist and a studied musician, ...
Emissions Regulations, An Integral Part of A Larger Policy Toolkit
Emissions Regulations, An Integral Part of A Larger Policy Toolkit
Aiga Stokenberga, the author of this blog post, completed this research as an intern in EMBARQ in Summer 2011.  Her research product is one of the last articles co-authored by the late Dr. Lee Schipper. EMBARQ encourages young researchers working ...
ADB Transport Forum 2012: Full Speed Toward Inclusive and Sustainable Mobility
ADB Transport Forum 2012: Full Speed Toward Inclusive and Sustainable Mobility
“We cannot continue as we are,” echoed the participants at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Transport Forum 2012 held in Manila earlier this month. Demographic trends around the world indicate that 44 million people will move to cities every year. ...
Friday Fun: Bus Stops Crackle, Swing
Friday Fun: Bus Stops Crackle, Swing
In the modern cityscape, the bus stop is dismissed as an object without artistic merit. Ubiquitous and simultaneously invisible -unless a delay forces the commuter’s eye-  few people recognize bus stops as places that can make a meaningful contribution to ...
Thanksgiving Travel In Perspective
Above, Union Station in Washington, D.C. the day before Thanksgiving. Photo by Matt Kroneberger.
Thanksgiving, an American holiday of grand proportions, combines the United States’ two biggest loves: car travel and excessive eating. The holiday, celebrating a colonial truce, embodied through the sharing of foods at a common table, will bring many families together…many ...
The Trillion Yuan Question: How Can China Fund Its Sustainable Growth?
Congestion in Urban China is appalling...and growing.
This post was originally featured on WRIInsights and was co-authored with Daniel Bongardt, Transport Policy Advisor with the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ).  China—especially its cities—has embraced sustainable transport in a big way. The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development recently urged Chinese cities ...
Friday Fun: The Biceberg Bike Locker
Friday Fun: The Biceberg Bike Locker
A version of this post was originally featured on TheCityFix Brasil by Maria Fernanda Cavalcanti. Bicycle storage is traditionally very simple. Typically, a banded piece of metal is affixed to the ground, allowing the cyclist to lightly anchor to bike to rack ...