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Dec. 14, 2018 / Gordon Price

Peter Ladner on the Urban Mobility Revolution

Peter delivered this talk at the Get Inspired Talks, on October 20, 2018. . For decades Peter Ladner has been trying out…
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Nov. 28, 2018 / Gordon Price

The Rise of the TSP: The Battle is Underway

Let me quote myself: I’ve been predicting the rise of the “Transportation Service Provider” — a consolidator of every mode of…
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Nov. 20, 2018 / Gordon Price

The Rise of the TSP: The end of the self-owned vehicle

As Transportation Service Providers (TSPs) provide a suite of options in the form of a service contract, rather like telecommunication…
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Nov. 09, 2018 / Colin Stein

SFU: Want More Skytrain? Do the Numbers (Part II)

Yesterday’s post about the Vancouver Sun op-ed by Alex Boston scraped the surface of what could comprise an effective business case for…
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Nov. 08, 2018 / Colin Stein

SFU: Want More Skytrain? Do the Numbers (Part I)

This week, Alex Boston, the Executive Director of the Renewable Cities program at SFU’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue,…
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Nov. 05, 2018 / Gordon Price

The Autonomous Vehicle Nightmare

  Beth Osborne, Director of Transportation for America, was asked: Can you paint a vivid picture of your nightmare scenario of what…
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Nov. 01, 2018 / Gordon Price

“One of the best ideas in the history of transportation”

More common sense from Jarrett Walker.  In The Atlantic: Microtransit, or “Uber for public transit,” as some advocates call it,…
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Oct. 19, 2018 / Gordon Price

The Rise of the TSP: Uber Over All?

Some recent stories about the impact of ride-hailing companies, particularly Uber, and the longer term implications. First, another confirming story…
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Sep. 19, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Bike Share — A New Generation

UBC’s Dropbike is in operation at the Point Grey campus. You can see the bright orange and white bikes rolling…
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Sep. 14, 2018 / Gordon Price

The Rise of the TSP: Uber’s “real competitor”

Further evidence of the rise of the ‘Transportation Service Provider’ – a single entity that, Uber-like, tries to consolidate as…
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Sep. 13, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Vancouver’s Broadway Rapid Transit — Elevated or Tunneled?

Vancouver, in 2025, should be home to a new mostly-tunneled Skytrain route through BC’s second-largest jobs centre. It’s rapid transit…
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Sep. 03, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Beyond Metro Vancouver — the Cascadia Corridor Conference

Big things start with people coming together over big ideas. In this case, it’s a set of ideas to foster…
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Aug. 21, 2018 / Gordon Price

Autonomous Vehicles: The sacrifice humans may have to make

Finally, an article which deals with a critical question regarding self-driving cars: will they require isolation in the urban environment…
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Aug. 02, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Thoughts On Vancouver Rapid Transit – Broadway to UBC

TransLink, UBC and City of Vancouver engineers and planners have told us what they think about the technology for the…

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