Pinboard: bookmarks for fakeisthenewreal tagged 'transport'

<<The vision for Water Street proposes broad integrated changes in the physical environment to sustain the success of Lower Manhattan's key commercial corridor. The character of the Water Street subdistrict calls for ambitious and holistic intervention across each facet of the physical environment. The product of a two year effort, this study was designed to capture and synthesize the views of a broad and inclusive range of stakeholders.>>

nyc plan planning transport
october 2010 by fakeisthenewreal

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Abogo Transportation Cost

Overlays heat maps of household transportation cost on US Metros. From CNT.

map usa economics transport
august 2010 by fakeisthenewreal

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Transportation Nation -

Tristate region public radio bloggin on Transpo issues

to_rss blog radio journalism transport
june 2010 by fakeisthenewreal

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Housing and Transportation Affordability Index

Mapping tool from CNT for doing side-by-side comparisons of carbon/expenses/density/etc for US metro areas. Pretty snazzy.

map usa planning car housing transport urban
march 2010 by fakeisthenewreal

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The Pyongyang Metro: pyongyangmetro.com

Excellent analysis of rolling stock, propaganda, and history of the Pyongyang Metro.

korea transport transit subway
january 2010 by fakeisthenewreal

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National Transit Database

datasets and yearbooks for US transit. Get that juicy cost per passenger mile and revenue mile data!

transport transit usa archive data
january 2010 by fakeisthenewreal

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CHICAGO TRANSIT & RAILFAN
chicago transport history
november 2009 by fakeisthenewreal

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"Hoboken Daylighting" In Lieu Of Bump-Outs | Planetizen

"vengeful sect that attempts to summon the spirit of Robert Moses every December 18th by smashing two chunks of macadam over a flaming can of Pennzoil"

transport hoboken writing urban planning new.jersey
november 2009 by fakeisthenewreal

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Bay Area Burden »Home

Calculating the connection of location and transportation costs within the metro area.

housing transport sf money
november 2009 by fakeisthenewreal

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Ride the City: safe bike routes made easy

finds "safe" bike routes in the five boros. Needs a "sort of safe but still direct" setting, but a useful reference and decent implementation.

bike nyc mapping transport
september 2009 by fakeisthenewreal

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Contrail - Biking Community Tool // studio gelardi

Bikes lay down faint chalk lines, which become a kind of community-powered bike lane. Great idea, but what is the device? The sleek fixies in the rendering seem to be magically making chalk.

bike transport design social
march 2009 by fakeisthenewreal

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Streetsblog » BRT, Rail, and New York City: A Conversation With Walter Hook

Outlines ridership/capacity issues for BRT vs light rail.

transit interview brt transport
february 2009 by fakeisthenewreal

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LimeWire Creator Brings Open-Source Approach to Urban Planning | Epicenter from Wired.com

on the open planning project and technology in transpo and community planning

planning technology urban transport
february 2009 by fakeisthenewreal

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The Last Traffic Jam by Stewart Udall – The Atlantic (October 1972)

Relying on Middle Eastern oil will be an economic and political disaster! Start building smaller and more efficient cars & public transit.
If only.

depressingly_correct_prediction energy writing magazine transport the_sadness
november 2008 by fakeisthenewreal

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CTPP 2000 Products
census planning usa transport
september 2008 by fakeisthenewreal

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NYS DOT Project Flowchart

awesome flowchart.

transport nys planning viastreetsblog
august 2008 by fakeisthenewreal

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Shipping Costs Start to Crimp Globalization - New York Times

Transport gets more expensive -> production moves closer to consumption

news economics transport energy geography consumption globalization_cracks_up
august 2008 by fakeisthenewreal

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Arizona Rail Passenger Association » “Hattie B” Commuter Train Helps 1980 Flood Situation

washed out bridges -> emergency rail line in phoenix

transport rail phoenix arizona trains
july 2008 by fakeisthenewreal

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Airline Route Maps

collected by airline

map transport archive
june 2008 by fakeisthenewreal

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NYCDOT - Truck Routing
via:asalzberg redhook transport trucking
may 2008 by fakeisthenewreal

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RITA | BTS | Transtats
transport statistics census usa
february 2008 by fakeisthenewreal

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institute for rational urban mobility
nyc transport org urban policy planning
january 2008 by fakeisthenewreal

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Green Line Extension | Home Page

MBTA puts up a website.

boston somerville massachusetts trains transport
november 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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world.nycsubway.org/Showing Image 33237

Green Line (E) showing on-street ROW. slow(er) but space efficient

transport trains boston
november 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Middlesex_Canal_(Massachusetts)_map,_1852.jpg / Wikimedia
map history massachusetts somerville canal transport
october 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Middlesex Canal Association

There once was a canal. Now there's I-93

canal history somerville massachusetts transport
october 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Transportation System Performance
boston transport trains bus archive
october 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Image:Boston Post Road map.png - Wikipedia

"3 major alignments were the Lower Post Rd (Rte 1 along the shore thru Providence), the Upper Post Rd (US 5 & US 20 from New Haven via Springfield) & the Middle Post Rd (Hartford diagonally to Boston)"

transport wikipedia map i'm_not_looking_for_a_new_england mail
august 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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The Urban Ring | Home Page

plan to built BRT circle line in Boston-Cambridge-Somerville-Everett-Chelsea

boston transport bus planning
august 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Locust St.

long posts of music+photo+quotes about different modes of transport

blog music history transport
august 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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The Unreality of Airplanes

wendell berry, contrails, flu pandemics

viajsguntzel air transport travel hidden_patterns weather
june 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Rail Line Drives Utah Development - New York Times

TODs in SLC

news transport urban planning utah
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Stay Free! Daily: Solving New York's traffic problems

Q: So a big highway disappears and the traffic increase on other streets was barely measurable?
A: Yes, a highway carrying 80,000 vehicles a day collapsed and... nothing.

urban planning nyc transport traffic interview
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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the act.of route: world cities in motion - fifteen. interchange city.multiple mini-derives 3.4 -3.7

I want to read this kind of writing about every city.

hong_kong transport urban the_everyday
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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CO2 output from shipping twice as much as airlines | The Guardian

~18m containers making ~200m trips on 70k ships use ~300m tonnes fuel and generate 600-800m tonnes of CO2, 5% of global total. [if each container doesn't generate $74K each year, we're not getting our environmental degredation's worth]

environment boat transport world
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Matters of Scale - Bicycle Frame | Worldwatch Institute

Auto: 1,860; Bus:920; Rail:885; Foot:100; Bicycle:35 (a little specificity would be nice, but it's the web, a'ight)

energy environment transport
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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The New Yorker : Lewis Mumford : The Skyway's the Limit

"[W]e will wake up one morning to discover that our city has become as helpless and useless as a stranded whale, unable either to swim back to the sea or crawl forward on land." (it feels awful to tag end_of_rome on something nearly 50 yrs old)

awesome mustread end_of_rome nyc urban via:things transport planning
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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strickland.ca - transportation energy efficiency (fuel consumption)
energy environment transport sustainability
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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The Open Planning Project: Welcome
planning org transport
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Rethinking Development Report 3 | Battling Traffic: What New Yorkers Think About Road Pricing

Get behind me, car: great maps of rush hour congestion

nyc map traffic transport reference
december 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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CTA | Circle Line Alternatives Analysis Study - Screen 2 Analysis
transport chicago
november 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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ITDP
org international transport
september 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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List of Control Cities for Use in Guide Signs on Interstate Highways

"A control city is a city or locality posted on a traffic sign indicating forward destinations on a certain route."

usa transport car geography psychogeography
august 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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bcrr.jpg (JPEG Image, 3760x2888 pixels)

great 1874 brooklyn map. north to lowerleft. check out sunset park street grid extending into the harbor.

map brooklyn trains transport history
may 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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railspeed.pdf (application/pdf Object)

heavy, light & commuter rail transit speeds.

transport trains subway
may 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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New York Fliers May Get Choice a Bit Farther Out - New York Times

"There is no place within 100 miles of New York City where you can buy land for less than a bazillion dollars." ---> I'm posting this bc. of use of the word 'bazillion'

transport nyc air travel
april 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Public Transportation: Wherever Life Takes You

American Public Transportation Association

transport subway bus usa
april 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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WSJ.com - Strangers on the Train: Highway Work Forces Chicagoans Off Road

Ms. Schue (42) had never been on a train in her life. "I'm still very...," she says, choking up ... "I miss my car."

chicago transport traffic
april 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Chicago Tribune news: It's pink!

"the Chicago Transit Authority shunned conventional wisdom and picked pink to name a branch of the L." Guess they're saving Gray for the circle line. Will lack of colors kill future expansions?

transport chicago subway design
march 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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City of Chicago - Central Area Plan

"The planning department now intends to seek approval [for] the plan ... on June 12, 2003" // no word on what happened.

chicago urban planning transport
march 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Travel Time Tube Map (Built with Processing)

great!

london mapping time transport
march 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Ask Carole

CTA Chair Carole Brown has a blog

blog chicago transport subway
march 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Seoul Metro
korea transport subway
march 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Ancient Routes

"A site devoted to exploring the ancient trade routes around the Mediterranean"

map transport history
march 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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The Lawn Chair Pilot

Amazing lawn chair pilot (1982( floated to 16000 feet via 35 helium-filled weather balloons. Landed safely.

la transport awesome
march 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Ship locations

live ship locations in world.
This is me setting up a scrape of this image.

map world transport hidden_patterns the_everyday gps
march 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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National Highway System

What is the National Highway System?

map usa transport car
february 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Interstate Travel Forecast Map

truckerweather.com :: interstates colored by weather conditions (purple => windy, green => rain), etc., with superimposed temps. Great, if a little ugly.

map transport trucking usa weather
february 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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BTS | Map 3 - Top U.S. Domestic Freight Interstate Pairs by Mode: 1993

MSpaint map/chart from the bureau of transport statistics. interesting facts, too.

map dirtstyle usa transport
february 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Horseshoe Curve - Altoona PA - Google Maps

During the first half of the 1900s, the Horseshoe Curve was considered, along with the Panama Canal, the Empire State Building, and the Bay Bridge at San Francisco, one of the engineering "Wonders of the World."

transport trains pennsylvania history google
february 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Officials Find Drug Tunnel With Surprising Amenities - New York Times

cf. Mexican Perforation

mexico usa transport drug
january 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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TerraPass | Prevent global warming, reduce carbon dioxide pollution, promote alternative energy

indulgences 2.0: "your money goes to alternative energy projects to offset the global warming impact of your car's CO2 emissions." or get a bike & zero your emissions.

environment activism transport car energy
january 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Google Local - Canal Origins Site

satellite img of prev post

chicago history transport map canal
december 2005 by fakeisthenewreal

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Chicago Landmarks | Site of the Origins of the I&M Canal

the genesis of chicago

chicago history canal transport hidden_patterns
december 2005 by fakeisthenewreal

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