On a tourist trip to Iran in the summer of 2010 I decided to visit the famous “Big Bazaar” in Southern Tehran. On my way, I found myself in a men’s compartment of the metro. In Iran, the last two compartments of each metro tram are women-only sections, and the rest of the compartments are [...]

Even in the green tech world of today, hydrogen fuel cell cars are receiving a small amount of attention compared to their electric counterparts. While companies like Best Buy and SolarCity are starting to offer materials and installation for electric vehicle charging stations, and the waiting list for a Nissan Leaf is reaching nearly 20,000, [...]

The so-called “choices” that people make about movement– how they get to where they’re going, and whether they bike, walk, ride, or drive there– are never merely individual decisions. Rather, these decisions are often the result of how the cities we live in have been mapped and planned over time. Los Angeles, for example, is [...]

While countries around the world are addressing traffic and pollution with revitalized public transportation and increased pedestrian-friendly spaces, most North American cities are simply pouring the cement for another parking garage. Increasingly bewildering is the fact that the international economy is crying out for more practical, money-saving alternatives to skyrocketing gas prices. American transit: the [...]

                      On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the addition of 70 new electric vehicles to the city’s official transit fleet. The new additions  include 50 Chevy Volts, 10 Navi-star “E-star” electric utility trucks, and 10 Ford Transit Connect electric cargo vans. At [...]

This Friday, Los Angeles City Mayor Villaraigosa released the 2010 Bicycle Plan, the latest major milestone in putting the city’s Measure R funds to work. By designating over 1600 miles of bicycle lanes throughout Los Angeles, the plan is designed to promote biking as a sustainable means of transit. The new bicycle system, composed of [...]

As anyone who’s ever taken the 101 freeway knows, traffic in LA is a strange beast. Of the 50 most traffic-riddled metropolitan areas in the United States, Los Angeles is the worst. So it should come as no surprise that thinkers at Caltrans and the Van Alen Institute are hosting an exhibition about the potential [...]

Here’s an old TED video on Electric Car Energy Technology. It’s a perfect primer for some posts on Sustainable Energy Storage and the Hydrogen Economy, that I’m working on. Shai Agassi addresses some of the structural problems that exist in the Electric Car Marketplace, and suggests a bold solution to solve the problem of recharge [...]

While the title of the report Separate But Equal: A Winning Policy for Women in Transit remains problematic, the idea presented by its author emerges as uniquely relevant in two ways:   1) Women worldwide continually struggle to find safe, comfortable, and secure means of transit  for the global networks of transport on which our [...]