Alexey Pozdnukhov: Smartphones and Smart Cities | ITS.Berkeley.edu 2013-09-27 "Computer scientists do applications, but they’re disconnected from the realities of how transportation systems actually operate and how they’ve been designed," he explained. "And physicists working in complex systems are the same–very, very disconnected from real systems. We’re all trying to work on Smart Cities from different perspectives." via Alexey Pozdnukhov: Smartphones and Smart Cities | ...

A Cure for Bus Bunching | ITS.Berkeley.edu 2013-09-27 Tablets are mounted in the bus so drivers can easily keep track of when they’re running ahead or behind schedule by glancing at the colored bars, each representing a minute, instead of conversing with dispatchers. Red bars tell drivers to slow down, green bars to proceed normally. The blue bars indicate the driver is on ...

Gas 2 | What is the future of fuel? What’s new? What’s next? Since 2007, Gas 2 has covered a rapidly changing world coming to terms with its oil addiction. 2013-09-19 I think one of the best ethical problems to place the driverless car in is the Trolley Problem. In this example, in place of the trolley is a school bus loaded with kids and you behind the wheel of a car on a narrow road and you are going to crash. This is a no ...

Fare Enough — How Smart Technology Could Waste Commuter Time and Money | Sua Son 2013-09-18 Further, many organisations and companies do not fully understand the specific needs of different urban solutions. A new system can only be fully implemented when the developer understands its target culture. Whilst a sudden change in the Netherlands transport payment system might challenge the everyday Dutch commuter, it works spectacularly well in South Korea, where ...

Mapping Silicon Valley’s Gentrification Problem Through Corporate Shuttle Routes | Wired Opinion | Wired.com 2013-09-07 Last year, my colleagues at Stamen and I used a grant from the ZERO1 Biennial in San Jose (with the support of the James Irvine Foundation) to follow the corporate commuter shuttles around San Francisco, count people getting on and off them, and collate and combine their reports into a map of the area’s clandestine ...

Opinion: Ride the Hyperloop before decade’s end? – CNN.com 2013-09-02 Needless to say, the possibilities for improvements are endless. We’ve just embarked on a path that can bring together the visionary transportation engineers, architects, urban planners and information technology experts who are willing to collaborate on the design process and flesh out its flaws to make the dream of building the world’s fastest and safest ...

Lousy Commute? Use This App to Let Your Elected Officials Know | Autopia | Wired.com 2013-08-03 The I’m Stuck app, from infrastructure advocacy group Building America’s Future, is designed to give commuters a platform to let public officials know when their infrastructure is failing them. It’s a new twist on an old planning strategy of counting the number of riders and drivers who use a particular route. But instead of sending ...