It’s amazing how quickly the curb became a public infrastructure mapping and digitizing focus. And it stands to reason why would it. Ridesharing and autonomous driving companies are often cited as one of the biggest …
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Friday Reads – 10 January 2020
• End of Euston station’s underground taxi rank (HydeParkNow) • How railways can better deal with heatwaves (BBC) • MaaS consolidation on the horizon? (SupraGeography) • Why don’t all cities use Leading Pedestrian Intervals? (PriceTags) …
Continue readingHacking 20% of cars could freeze traffic (SmartCitiesDive)
A hack that affects a small number of internet-connected cars could completely gridlock Manhattan, according to a study from researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology and Multiscale Systems, Inc. The research was published in the journal Physical Review …
Continue readingATO hacking vulnerability (RailTech)
“Cyber threats could be very serious for the rail sector in the future,” says Karl King, Senior Consultant at Frazer-Nash Consultancy. On the follow-up question ‘why?’, he brings attention to several important facts in implementing …
Continue readingGreater Anglia using AI to improving timetabling (FutureRail)
It was in 2002, while at the University of Michigan, that Dr Michael Grieves wrote about bridging the gap between the virtual and real worlds using digital replicas of physical assets, processes or systems. Two …
Continue readingGhost ships – a GPS mystery in Shanghai (MITTechReview)
On a sultry summer night in July 2018, the MV Manukai was arriving at the port of Shanghai, near the mouth of the Huangpu River. This busy tributary of the Yangtze winds through the city …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 18 November 2019
• Lyft bikeshare shut out of London (Bloomberg) • TfL publishes tables of Tube capacity (CityMetric) • Rotterdam’s crowdfunded Luchtsingel pedestrian bridge (PopUpCity) • The future of transportation is the bus, bike, and elevator (Slate) …
Continue readingSenior mobility crisis of declining options
By the year 2030, approximately 72 million people, one in five Americans (20%), will be 65 years of age and older. In this age group, people outlive their decision to stop driving by about 10 …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 16 September 2019
• Experience London transport in a wheelchair, without working hands (CityMetric) • CR Mackintosh’s Gothic railway terminus design (MackintoshArch) • How safe is the air in five major cities? (FT) • How developers are remaking …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 13 September 2019
• Depressing lesson of west London’s lost cycle route (Guardian) • Gare du Nord addition ‘une grave offense’ to passengers (CityLab) • Senate moves temporarily to old rail station (OttawaMag) • ‘Smart’ Cities – not …
Continue readingBig data culture evolving for rail (IntlRailJ)
The use of data and analytics across the railway process has moved on from its infancy and become a fully-fledged facet of everyday operations. Armed with a better idea of how their systems work and …
Continue readingWaze flooding streets to the Nash Equilibrium (LAMag)
Homeowners wake up to find themselves trapped in a pop-up freeway hell that makes it nearly impossible to exit their driveways. The transportation officials and the council members and the whining neighborhood associations are mere …
Continue readingThe potential for rail digital twins (RailwayAge)
Digital twins have become one of the most talked about topics because of their promise to leverage innovation to improve design, visually enhance collaboration, and increase asset reliability and performance. However, rail is a very …
Continue readingExperts spooked by city digital twin systems (CityLab)
Why are some mobility experts spooked by this plan to develop a data standard that would allow cities to build a real-time traffic control system? Imagine driving through Los Angeles in the year 2040. There’s …
Continue readingAI to improve predictive maintenance (RailwayTechnology)
The Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) uses the industrial internet of things and artificial intelligence to develop new predictive rail maintenance and performance management technologies. Passenger rail services in Japan have become a byword for …
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