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Jan. 08, 2015 / Gordon Price

The App Match: Smile

It looks as though there’s a competition in Europe to come up with the best comprehensive mobility app. Germany has…
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Jan. 07, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Helsinki Plan: Transcending car ownership … and transit

Peter Ladner is impressed. From The Guardian: Helsinki’s ambitious plan to make car ownership pointless in 10 years The Finnish…
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Dec. 02, 2014 / Gordon Price

Ladner on Uber

Peter Ladner, in Business in Vancouver, looks at the bigger issues related to the rise of Uber: Why Vancouver should…
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Dec. 02, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Signal and LOS

Signaling a bus in Orange County means you press a button and a light alerts the bus driver: . .…
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Nov. 27, 2014 / Gordon Price

Frontiers in Transportation: The Ropeless Elevator

Joe Sulmona thinks this is interesting: ThyssenKrupp Develops the World’s First Rope-free Elevator System . The era of the rope-dependent…
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Oct. 23, 2014 / Gordon Price

Disruption's Bottom Line

From NerdWallet: . NerdWallet tackled these questions: How much would it cost to exclusively use ridesharing services like Lyft and…
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Oct. 21, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Pendulum Swings: When Online meets the Real World

Doug Clarke thinks this is an appropriate read for today – from the New York Times: When Uber and Airbnb…
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Oct. 21, 2014 / Gordon Price

Disruptive Change: Yet another Old Boy threatened by youthful technology

The theme today seems to be the disruptive effects on traditional systems, especially large monopoly-like organizations, of new technologies.  Here’s…
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Oct. 21, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: Cities vs Apps

From CBC San Francisco: More Cities Join SF In Effort To Ban MonkeyParking App That Auctions Off Spaces To Highest Bidder …
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Oct. 14, 2014 / Gordon Price

"I Have Seen the Future of Transit …"

“… and It Is in Raleigh,” by Scott Huler in Scientific American (by way of Tim Pawsey) .  … the Institute…
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Oct. 14, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: Progress

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Oct. 06, 2014 / Gordon Price

Downsides and Dangers: Old-Economy Jobs, New-Economy Gigs

David, in a comment on this post – Taxi Crash – links to an article in Techcrunch by John Evans worthy of…
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Sep. 26, 2014 / Gordon Price

Taxi Crash: The Impact of Uber in San Francisco

Jimbo references this article in The Atlantic in a post below – worthy of bringing to the foreground: After Uber, San…
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Sep. 17, 2014 / Gordon Price

If they can do it in Squamish: A Gondola for Brooklyn

Looks like a serious proposal – as reported in CityLab:   The East River Skyway is a proposal for a multi-phase…

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