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Paris Will Ban Through Traffic in City Center - CityLab

Paris Will Ban Through Traffic in City Center - CityLab

Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s latest effort to rein in car use and fight pollution would prevent non-residents from driving across the French capital's historic heart in 2022. In an announcement Wednesday, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo set an audacious new benchmark in her ongoing campaign to reduce car use across the French capital: a ban on most vehicle traffic crossing the city center in 2022. The plan would stop through traffic from a large zone covering Paris’ core, to cut pollution a

SEPTA Launches Estimated Seat Availability Dashboard

SEPTA Launches Estimated Seat Availability Dashboard

New Online Tool Gives Customers a Virtual Look On-Board Vehicles While Planning Trips; Available Now for Most Bus Routes, Will Expand to Cover All Modes SEPTA today launched a new online tool to provide customers with information about seat availability on-board vehicles as they plan their trips. The Estimated Seat Availability Dashboard is now on SEPTA's website, with information available for most bus routes. This data will expand in the coming months to cover all of SEPTA'

The Arlington Story – How TDM Provides More Choices and Encourages Behavior Change

The Arlington Story – How TDM Provides More Choices and Encourages Behavior Change

By Ethan Goffman MobilityLab New proposed legislation defines and funds TDM initiatives that could provide communities with opportunities to tackle transportation challenges more effectively based on local needs. Amid the blizzard of legislation in the early days of the Biden administration, it’s easy to overlook a small but important bill, H.R. 2514, the Mobility Options, Resiliency, and Efficiency (MORE) through TDM Act. If passed, this bill would fund Transportation Deman

Celebrating TDM Week, May 10-14 - ACT

Celebrating TDM Week, May 10-14 - ACT

By David Straus Prior to the pandemic, American workers spent on average, 54 hours in congestion according to the Texas Transportation Institute’s 2019 Urban Mobility Report. When not including years deeply impacted by economic recessions like 2020 or 2008’s financial crisis, we have seen continued increases in congestion in communities large and small, urban and rural. The negative impacts of this traffic are many and reverberate throughout our daily lives and constrain econ

Entire U.S. transit bus fleet could transition to zero emission at a cost of $56 billion to $89B

Entire U.S. transit bus fleet could transition to zero emission at a cost of $56 billion to $89B

By Mass Transit A study by CTE found with “robust federal support,” the nationwide fleet transition to zero-emission vehicles would be possible by 2035. The transit bus fleet in the United States could transition to full zero-emission vehicles by 2035 at a cost of between $56.22 billion and $88.91 billion according to a new report from the Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE). The report assumes a mix of battery-electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles will be

Celebrate TDM Week May 10-14th. Share your TDM projects and stories!

Celebrate TDM Week May 10-14th. Share your TDM projects and stories!

The Association for Commuter Transportation (ACT) is launching National TDM Week May 10-14, 2021. We need you to share your TDM programs and success stories while highlighting any measurable data you collect to help support and further the MORE Through TDM Act. Transportation Management Demand, or TDM, are strategies or tools utilized to effectively manage our transportation network. TDM alternatives, such as biking, transit, working from home, carpooling, or vanpooling, or p

City of Charlotte approves public-private partnership for electric bus pilot -SmartCitiesWorld

City of Charlotte approves public-private partnership for electric bus pilot -SmartCitiesWorld

Charlotte City Council has voted to approve a pilot program to run electric buses. The public-private partnership between the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) and eTransEnergy, a subsidiary/affiliate of Duke Energy, will test the performance of battery electric bus (BEB) vehicles across the greater metropolitan Charlotte area. Cities Climate Challenge This collaboration, which has been supported by the Bloomberg Philanthropies American Cities Climate Challenge, will kick

Why Mobility as a Service Needs a Proper Platform - Streetsblog

Why Mobility as a Service Needs a Proper Platform - Streetsblog

By S. Travis Waller and Kasun Wijayaratna Uber, Ola, Car Next Door, GoGet, Urbi and Shareabike have transformed the mobility experience for millions of people, but are just the tip of the looming iceberg of changes in transport. Globally, 93 million travellers use the Uber app on a monthly basis. More Australians use Uber (22.9 percent) than taxis (21.8 percent). The public clearly has an appetite for mobility as a service (MaaS). People want to plan, book and pay for various

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