Articles from 2013

• Should drivers receive great tax breaks than mass transit riders? The Washington Post, December 28, 2013
• Photos for MTA’s Arts for Transit program spruce up subway stops. Transportation Nation, December 11, 2013
• Green bike lanes send the message that roads are not just for vehicles. Posted by STREETSBLOG.net, December 11, 2013
• Bus rapid transit implementations around the world improve cities in many ways. The City Fix, December 10, 2013
• Is mass transit doomed in America? Posted by SALON, December 2, 2013
• Hoping to engage and empower people in the public planning process, Portland media firm creates “Unity3D Visualization” software to let users manipulate and evaluate the features of a streetscape design. Posted by DC.STREETSBLOG.ORG, November 27, 2013
• Billions needed to fix transit in San Francisco. Posted by SF Gate, November 25, 2013
• Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett signs $2.3 billion transportation bill to improve state’s highways, bridges and mass-transit systems. TribLive.com, November 25, 2013
• Can you take your eyes away? A piece of data viz shows how public transit reduces congestion. The Atlantic, November 18, 2013
• Victory Media named Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority (WMTA) 2014 “Military Friendly Employer”. The media company publishes G.I. Jobs and Military Spouse magazines. Progressiverailroading.com, November 12, 2013
• In Moscow, to prepare for the upcoming 2014 Olympics and to promote exercise, Olympic Changes installed special ticket machines at the Moscow subway station. The special ticket machines accept exercises instead of money as payment for a subway ticket. Posted by viralviralvideos.com, November 11, 2013
• A mobile app called “Tiramisu”, which in Italian translates to “pick-me-up” will help disabled individuals navigate sidewalks and transportation. thetartan.org, November 3, 2013
• As a proud project team member, Acumen is happy to note that after nearly 16 years of planning and waiting, developer CCGI broke ground on the old Oakland Army Base site this week as the first stage of the $1.2 billion Oakland Global Trade and Logistics Center project., ENR California, October 2013
• The Chicago Transit Authority intends to display public art at newly-renovated Red Line stations on its southern Dan Ryan Branch., InfrastructureUSA, October 12, 2013
• An on demand minibus operation in Finland allows riders to request a ride and choose their own route using a smartphone., WIRED, October 11, 2013
• You know who was a sustainable transportation supporter? Mahatma Gandhi., The City Fix, October 2, 2013
• Nearly 70 percent of millennials use multiple ways of getting around a city or suburb., American Public Transportation Association, October 1, 2013
• Amtrak teams with Google to create interactive train locator map., ZDnet.com, September 30, 2013
• California Gov. Jerry Brown signs“bike buffer” law., San Francisco Bay Guardian Online, September 24, 2013
• Transit “Trolley Dances” give a dance company a platform., The New York Times, September 24, 2013
• The Regional Transportation Agency implements a modern street car system in the City of Tucson., rtamobility.com, September 21, 2013
• Beijing, China subway offer rewards to riders for recycling., The Transit Wire, September 13, 2013

• Study shows that living near good transportation can make you happier., The Atlantic Cities, September 12, 2013
• Federal lawmakers push to improve tax benefits for transit riders., Posted by DC.STREETSBLOG.ORG, September 10, 2013
• The Bay Area welcomes the new east span of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge., Posted by The Associated Press on npr.org, September 3, 2013
• City planners must prepare for population increase in urban areas to curb traffic problems with more public transit availability, The Guardian, September 3, 2013
• Port Angeles’ Clallam Transit tests new mobile Internet connection called “MiFi”, Peninsula Daily News, August 26, 2013
• Students create wearable smart cards, Boston Globe, August 26, 2013
• New smartphone app debuts, “I’m Stuck,” helps transit users with gridlock and infrastructure advocacy, Building America’s Future, August 13, 2013
• Rail safety grants awarded to 8 agencies, Metro Magazine, August 7, 2013
• Caltrain, Teen Digital Arts Program Partner to Produce Safety Videos, Caltrain, August 6, 2013
• Bus Rapid Transit gets another green light from the Oakland City Council, TransForm, August 1, 2013
• Can Free Transit Work in a Real City?, Streetsblog, July 31, 2013
• SamTrans up for a share of proceeds from San Mateo County tax measure, SF Examiner, July 31, 2013
• Stuck With Bad Transit Options? There’s an App for That, DC.Streetsblog, July 30, 2013
• Denver RTD chief named ‘Outstanding Public Transportation Manager’, Metro Magazine, July 30, 2013
• HP’s ‘Modern Silk Road’ Cuts Carbon, Costs, Shipping Times, Environmental Leader, July 25, 2013
• APTA to celebrate 9 agencies for sustainability efforts, Metro Magazine, July 25, 2013
• Clipper Cards Do Double Duty for Travelers, MTC, July 24, 2013
• Tapping the Private Sector to Grow Service, Metro Magazine, July 24, 2013
• Sharp Jump in Ridership for AC Transit?, Mass Transit, July 18, 2013
• Reports can only help public transit’s case, Metro Magazine, July 17, 2013
• BART Strike Illustrates Heated Debate Over Public Sector, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, July 7, 2013
• Bombardier Unveils Newest Very High Speed Train in Italy, Bombardier News, July 3, 2013
• Why You Should Be Angry About CA’s “Highest Gas Tax in the Country, LA.Streetsblog, July 1, 2013
• Personal Rapid Transit Revival, Government Technology, June 28, 2013
• Circling the Bay in 30 Days on Foot and on Transit, Peninsula Moves, June 27, 2013
• 30 million trips and counting: BART celebrates 10th anniversary of SFO extension, June 21, 2013, BART
• City Officials Unveil a People-Friendly Street in Fisherman’s Wharf, SF.Streetsblog, June 20, 2013
• How smart technology could change public transit, Phys, June 17, 2013
• Tokyo’s underground bike-storage robots, Boing Boing, June 10, 2013
• Study: FRA Regulations Make Us Less Safe, Streetsblog, June 10, 2013
• Visualization of 9 Years of Metrorail Ridership, PlanItMetro, June 4, 2013
• Attacking the Language Bias in Transportation Engineering, DC.Streetsblog, June 3, 2013
• Bad Bolts & BART Accidents = Build 2nd Transbay Tube, Urban Life Signs, May 31, 2013
• Meet Bay Area Bike Share, SF.Streetsblog, May 31, 2013
• Many don’t know how much they pay for roads, survey finds, The Washington Post, May 28, 2013
• BART Votes To Allow Bikes On Board During Rush Hour, Huffington Post, May 24, 2013
• SF Officials, Advocates Take a Ride on BRT and Bike-Share in Mexico City, SF.Streetsblog, May 23, 2013
• Anthony Foxx: Transportation Projects Are Economic Drivers, WNYC, May 22, 2013
• Suburbanization of Poverty Isolates a Growing Number of Americans, DC.Streetsblog, May 21, 2013
• SFMTA Unveils Bay Area Bike Share and Announces Open House, SFMTA Press Room, May 17, 2013
• Millennials Will Drive More As They Age, But Still Less Than Their Parents, DC.Streetsblog, May 14, 2013
• (Ped) Tunnel Vision, Urban Life Signs, May 11, 2013
• Inequality and Mass Transit in the Bay Area Diagram
• 3 Initiatives to Drive the New Secretary of Transportation, Huffington Post, May 7, 2013
• Historic Union Station Facing Renovation Plans, CA;, Mass Transit, May 3, 2013
• Amtrak Subsidy Gone, States Must Pay the Freight to Keep Rail Routes, New York Times, May 2, 2013
• One Year later, Who is Riding the Expo Line, USC Annenberg Digital News, May 1, 2013
• Meet Your Next Transportation Secretary, DC Streetsblog, April 29, 2013
• In Colorado, a Big Legal Victory for Active Transportation Funding, DC Streetsblog, April 25, 2013
• BART adds online feature to estimate train crowding, The Transit Wire, April 25, 2013
• 3 Creative Ways To Visualize Urban Public Transportation, Fast Company, April 23, 2013
• In Praise of the Stockholm Subway’s Breathtaking Art, The Atlantic Cities, April 22, 2013
• Three Fast Facts on the Carbon Benefits of Transit, Transportation Nation, April 22, 2013
• Obama wants $50B for roads, $40B for rail, MAP-21 extension in 2014 budget, The Hill, April 10, 2013
• Say Hello to Muni’s New Buses, SF Streetsblog, April 3, 2013
• Capital Bikeshare restarts expansion plans, The Washington Post, April 2, 2013
• Public Transportation Does Relieve Traffic Congestion, Just Not Everywhere, The Atlantic Cities, April 1, 2013
• To Fight Gridlock, Los Angeles Synchronizes Every Red Light, Los Angeles Times, April 1, 2013
• Obama’s newly minted ‘Rebuild America Partnership’ plan would provide $4 billion for TIGER, TIFIA programs, Progressive Railroading, April 1, 2013
• Radically rethinking the bus system, BBC, March 28, 2013
• At 40 Years, San Francisco’s Transit-First Policy Still Struggles for Traction, SF Streetsblog, March 22, 2013
• In Many Markets, Rail Beats or Competes With Air Travel, Streetsblog, March 22, 2013
• Home Values Performed 42 Percent Better When Located Near Public Transportation during Last Recession, APTA, March 21, 2013
• NYC Subways Deploy A Touch-Screen Network, Complete With Apps, Fast Company, March 20, 2013
• Red, Bike & Green wants to shift the color balance in bicycling, Grist, March 19, 2013
• DC Metro Wants Smarter Fare Card, Including FarePhones, Transportation Nation, March 16, 2013
• Obama Seeks to Use Oil and Gas Money to Develop Alternative Fuel Cars, New York Times, March 15, 2013
• DART’s Blue Line extension will go green with recycled railroad ties, Dallas Business Journal, March 15, 2013
• The End of Federal Transportation Funding as We Know It, The Atlantic Cities, March 11, 2013
• Uncrooking San Francisco’s Crookedest Tunnel, Urban Life Signs, March 9, 2013
• Political Piñata Amtrak Is the Fastest Growing Transportation Mode, dc.streetsblog.org, March 1, 2013
• For Eighth Year in a Row, the Average American Drove Fewer Miles in 2012, dc.streetsblog.org, February 27, 2013
• Urban Mobility Report, Infrastructure USA, February 26, 2013
• Free Muni for San Francisco youths kicks off Friday, The San Francisco Examiner, February 26, 2013
• After M.T.A. Setbacks, No-Swipe Fare Cards Are Still Stuck in the Future, The New York Times, February 24, 2013
• Putting “Rapid” into Bus Transit: Evaluating Cities Around the World, SustainableCitiesCollective, February 22, 2013
• City of Phoenix may launch bicycle-sharing program, issues request for proposal, Downtown Devil, February 21, 2013
• The Myth of the Commuting Criminal, The Atlantic Cities, February 21, 2013
• An App That Tells You If There Are Seats On The Train, Co.Exist, February 19, 2013
• Transit in the parks preserves a democratic idea; moves America forward, Fast Lane, February 19, 2013
• After four decades, BART preparing to allow bikes during commute hours, Oakland Tribune, February 19, 2013
• SF Mayor Pledges to Fix Muni, Transportation Nation, February 19, 2013
• Bombardier to test electric buses that charge wirelessly, The Canadian Press, February 18, 2013
• Watch 1,200 Miles In 156 Seconds, Using Less Juice, Co.Exist, February 18, 2013
• The Future of Connected Cars: What to do With All That Data?, Cisco, February 17, 2013
• High-Speed Rail Buzz Overpowers Daily Chug Of Freight Trains, NPR, February 16, 2013
• Ray LaHood Exit Interview: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, DC Streetsblog, February 13 – 15, 2013
• As Gas Prices Rise, Savings for Public Transit Riders Increase, American Public Transportation Association, February 12, 2013
• California honors AC Transit for fuel cell buses, Metro Magazine, February 8, 2013
• Explaining Public Transit to the Public, Streetsblog, February 8, 2013
• Does Riding Transit Make You More Civic-Minded?, DC Streetsblog, February 7, 2013
• 10 Secrets of Grand Central Terminal, The Epoch Times, February 6, 2013
• Keeping CNN Honest: 10 Ways Anderson Cooper Got the Rail Story Wrong, DC Streetsblog, January 31, 2013
• Study: People Who Bike or Walk to Work Enjoy Their Commutes the Most, Streetsblog, January 31, 2013
• Fixes on TAP at Metro, Zev Yaroslavsky’s Blog (Los Angeles County Supervisor – Third District), January 30, 2013
• Ray LaHood to step down as U.S. transportation secretary, The Washington Post, January 29, 2013
• An Oral History of San Francisco’s Bay Bridge, Transportation Nation, January 22, 2013
• “It’s Like Costco”: Why Calif. High-Speed Rail is Teaming Up with Amtrak, Transportation Nation, January 18, 2013
• 100 Years of Grandeur: The Birth of Grand Central Terminal, New York Times, January 18, 2013
• Top Reasons People Stop Using Public Transit, Governing, January 16, 2013
• Finally: A Transit Ticket on your Smart Phone, Atlantic Cities, January 16, 2013
• War of the waterfront, San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 8, 2013
• Key source of Bay Area transit headaches revealed by top researches, San Jose Mercury News, January 8, 2013
• Watch the New East Span of S.F.’s Bay Bridge Go Up in 2 Minutes, Atlantic Cities, January 7, 2013
• Green Caltrain station areas ready for electrification in 2013, BayRail Alliance, January 4, 2013

Articles from 2012

• Municipal Railway celebrates 100 years, SF Gate, December 28, 2012
• A look back at the year in transit technology, The Transit Wire, December 24, 2012
• Year in Review Bay Area: High Speed Rail Narrowly Passes, Apps Push Into Bay Area, Transportation Nation, December 24, 2012
• Trim the Tree with Green this Holiday Season with Savings from Public Transit, APTA, December 21, 2012
• 2012’s Biggest Transportation Successes, Atlantic Cities, December 19, 2012
• Honolulu rail transit a tribute to Senator Inouye and the people of Oahu, US DOT, December 19, 2012
• See what 25,000 LED lights on the Bay Bridge will look like, Transportation Nation, December 10, 2012
• Smaller Cities Taking on Big Transit Projects, Streetsblog, December 7, 2012
• One of World’s Great Toy Train Collections Chugs into New York, Transportation Nation, December 3, 2012
• Photos of the NYC Subway System in the 1970s, Narratively, November 2012
• San Francisco’s Version of the EL Train, Curbed San Francisco, November 21, 2012
• Utah State Rolls Out All Electric Bus, The Transit Wire, November 20, 2012
• SLIDESHOW: 19th century cable car gets makeover, second chance on tracks, SF Examiner, November 14, 2012
• Bullet-train planners face huge engineering challenge, Los Angeles Times, November 12, 2012
• MBTA mobile-ticket era begins for commuter rail riders Monday, Boston Globe, November 11, 2012
• The Vote 2012: A round-up of local ballot measures (and one mayoral election) that will affect transit projects nationwide, The Tranport Public, November 5, 2012
• Protecting New York City, Before Next Time, NY Times, November 3, 2012
• Infographic: The Many Connections between Transportation and Health, Streetsblog, October 29, 2012
• Mapping Mobility: The Importance of Information in Transportation, The City Fix, October 25, 2012
• Room for Debate: Should Toll Road Revenue Be Used for Other Projects?, The New York Times: The Opinion Pages, October 8, 2012
• Quarrels block use of Clipper card, The Transit Wire, October 5, 2012
• SF’s most dangerous intersection paved with good intentions, The Bay Citizen, October 3, 2012
• How Transit Is Shaping the Gentrification of D.C., Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, Transportation Nation, September 10 – October 1, 2012
• The New Frontier in Accessible Transportation, Public Roads, September/October 2012, Vol. 76 No. 2
• Metrobus Fuel Efficiency on the Rise, PlanItMetro, September 27, 2012
• Five transportation stories that will shape the year ahead, Talking Transportation, September 25, 2012
• One Size Does Not Fit All: Different Approaches to Transit-Oriented Development, Sustainable Cities Collective, September 24, 2012
• Caltrain electrification project ready to roll, Progressive Railroading, September 2012
• Re-thinking San Francisco’s Market Street, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, Transportation Nation, September 11-17, 2012
• Poll: 3 out of 4 Americans want more public transit options, Metro Magazine, September 13, 2012
• Muni app seeks to improve fleet, SF Gate, September 10, 2012
• Democrats call for long-term infrastructure investments, Progressive Railroading, September 7, 2012
• Back of the Bus: Mass transit, race and inequality, Transportation Nation/WYNC/American Radio Works, 2012
• Infrastructure or Bust: Facing Reality, Part 1 and Part 2, Harvard Public Review, August 21, 2012
• Save Money. Take Transit, American Public Transportation Association, June 20, 2012
• Take an Audio Bus Ride on East Oakland’s Most Popular (but Infamous) Route by Julie Caine, Transportation Nation, June 5, 2012
• Wimps Didn’t Build California: The Case for High-Speed Rail

  , California Alliance for Jobs, April 14, 2012

Articles from 2011

• More roads may pave the way to more traffic, National Public Radio, July 9, 2011
• Europe stifles drivers in favor of mass transit and walking by Elisabeth Rosenthal, The New York Times, June 26, 2011
• U.S. awards $2 billion for rail projects by Josh Mitchell, The Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2011
• I heart transit, American Public Transportation Association, April 19, 2011
• It’s a go, A ceremony marks the start of Honolulu’s rail transit system by Gene Park, Honolulu Star Advertiser, February 23, 2011
• U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood expands the DBE Program to help small businesses, U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business, January 27, 2011
• AC Transit supports ‘clean and green’ project for area high school girls, Passenger Transport, January 3, 2011

Articles from 2010

• Staying current with smaller transit agencies by Jill Hough, Ph.D.,
  Passenger Transport, December 20, 2010
• BART breaks ground Wednesday on Oakland Airport Connector, October 20, 2010; Acumen Building Enterprise President & CEO Walter E. Allen (second from right) attended this event.