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Apps making sustainable mobility convenient for everyone. Open data for transport innovation, research, and better cities.

  • Car Size

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  • Alt text: They really shouldn't let those small cars drive in traffic. I worry I'm going to kill someone if I hit one! They should have to drive on the sidewalk, safely out of the way.

  • Vector Tiles are deployed on OpenStreetMap.org

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  • It means that pages can load more quickly, because the tiles aren't based on bitmapped images, instead the tiles are mathematically drawn vectors that scale up and down gracefully.

  • Feds accidentally publish secret plan to kill NYC congestion pricing

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  • Isn't the "compelling legal argument" they usually use "A driver got mad?"

  • How Transport Data is Like Your Mom’s 1990 AOL Account

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  • Thanks for the feedback. We agree that it's important to be mindful of ageism and sexism. The reference to a "mom" in 1990 was meant to evoke a relatable persona — someone readers could easily picture navigating a closed ecosystem in 1990. Later in the post, we also mention how "your mom" could very well be an empowered advocate for openness — emphasizing that anyone, regardless of their starting point, can embrace and champion digital progress.

    If there’s specific language in the post that you feel could be improved, we’d be happy to hear your thoughts.

  • How Transport Data is Like Your Mom’s 1990 AOL Account

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  • Not Just Bikes @feddit.nl
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    How Transport Data is Like Your Mom’s 1990 AOL Account

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    How Transport Data is Like Your Mom’s 1990 AOL Account

  • Cars don't belong in cities, says Top Gear's James May

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  • We reposted this to all our socials, with HT to you.

  • Not Just Bikes @feddit.nl
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    Mapping Mexico’s Public Transport: Communities, Civil Society, and Students Are Digitizing Mobility

    www.trufi-association.org /building-better-urban-mobility-in-mexico-a-look-at-the-transit-mapping-initiative/

  • What if we handle road safety as general safety?

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  • In a 2023 study in the UK, people were more in favor of public policy to make people safer as long topic was something other than cars.

    ...adults rated, at random, a set of statements about driving ("People shouldn't drive in highly populated areas where other people have to breathe in the car fumes") or a parallel set of statements with keywords changed to shift context ("People shouldn't smoke in highly populated areas where other people have to breathe in the cigarette fumes"). Such context changes could radically alter responses (75% agreed with "People shouldn't smoke..." but only 17% agreed with "People shouldn't drive...").

    https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJENVH.2023.135446>

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    The Rosa Parks of Jaywalkers

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  • New Jersey Gov. Murphy asks Trump to review NYC congestion pricing ‘disaster’

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  • Even where car owners are the minority – e.g. New York City and the global South – their influence often derails sustainable policies.

    In the global South, most people are not car-dependent. Investing in sustainable, equitable transport systems, along with policies like congestion pricing protects against rising car ownership.

    New York’s congestion pricing backlash shows how car-centric thinking can harm the majority.

  • Dutch researchers employ unique e-bike to make cycling safer

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  • "There is a dearth of data on bikes and cycling in the Netherlands." Oh really?

    We can only imagine the blind spots bikes like this could uncover in the global South.

  • Well well well

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  • We've been seeing a lot of anecdotal posting on Xitter of people who were skeptics or in opposition to this suddenly realizing that they just gained an hour or more per day because the traffic has been significantly reduced. So even some regular people (i.e. not the wealthy) who have to drive in NYC because of their job are realizing that there's a cost benefit even if they do pay for the congestion pricing.

  • We've not been trained for this: life after the Newag DRM disclosure

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  • We were not familiar with this story. Playing catch-up, and we'll be posting this to Mastodon as well as corporate-owned channels.

    Public transport is too important not to expect that its code is open to inspection, if not licensed open source. Transport justice means supporting public mobility built with the same transparency and accessibility that we advocate for in open-source solutions.

  • Novel 2-chain bike aims at rock-solid ride and rugged redundancy

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  • It's an interesting design – and patented. If WBR really wants to have a big impact in the global South, they should release design with open, inclusive licensing so that entrepreneurs in the global South can manufacture it locally, without relying on imported hubs.

  • Not Just Bikes @feddit.nl
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    Crowdsourced Public Transport Data for Trujillo, Peru has Passed a Tough Validation Test - Can be used for transport planning, apps, research, etc.

  • Two questions about cities and their public transit infrastructure

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  • Buses = 🚌 🚌 🚌 Busses = 💋 💋 💋

  • Sit back and marvel at 14 minutes of (mostly) great bike infrastructure in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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  • Many cities in the global South are like this – but not all have great bike lanes for even limited stretches.

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Sit back and marvel at 14 minutes of (mostly) great bike infrastructure in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  • San Francisco traffic deaths: Pedestrians must do better, drivers say

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  • For all its faults, the NRA knows that guns are unsafe. It promotes "gun safety" not "shirt safety" – it doesn't blame people who get shot accidentally because they were wearing the wrong kind of shirt. Whereas cities around the world talk about "bike safety" when the unsafe element is not the bike at all.