The vision of the technology-powered metropolis of the future is being sold with images that bear little resemblance to the real world. Suddenly, the world is awash in smart cities. Google is about to build …
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Monday’s Friday Reads – 1 July 2019
• Piccadilly Circus Tube’s Sign Language staff (HydeParkNow) • TfL’s hidden dungeons (Paszkiewicz) • Commuter sells seat on crowded Tokyo train (Guardian) • Self-driving robotic boats for Amsterdam’s canals (CBCSpark) • Improving bus time accuracy …
Continue readingWill 5G enable railway cyber threats? (Railway-Technology)
Huawei and China Mobile recently launched 5G at Shanghai’s Hongqiao Railway Station, which will allow passengers to download a 2GB high-definition film in less than 20 seconds. However, the move has raised concerns about how …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 17 June 2019
• Old Street roundabout transformed to improve safety (Transport-Britain) • The urine deflectors of Fleet Street (AtlasObscura) • Homemade app shows shocking scale of Northern Rail delays (Wired) • Seattle found the solution to driving …
Continue readingTfL to track all Underground Wi-Fi users (Wired)
In the autumn of 2016, Transport for London (TfL) started tracking its passengers. A month long trial at 54 stations used Wi-Fi signals from phones and other devices to harvest depersonalised data about where, when …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 30 March 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. This week’s lineup: • Atmospheric Underground photos (TubeMapper) • Glasgow considering congestion charging (AirQualityNews) • Paris Mayor floats free transit for all (NextCity) • Data shows how often cars block …
Continue readingVisual tools for managing Germany’s rail network (Nand)
More and more people travel by train in Germany. How can we combine machine learning and visual analytics methods to help manage the passenger loads? Peak Spotting provides yield and capacity managers with rich visual …
Continue readingSmart sleepers to collect real time data (Railway Gazette)
An agreement to co-operate to develop ‘smart’ sleepers containing real-time data collection sensors has been signed by Italian start-up company Greenrail and Spanish technology provider Indra. The companies are to work together to study the …
Continue readingNagging questions about Mobility As A Service (CityMetric)
Discussed at length in specialist magazines… and increasingly in the popular press, it is transport’s latest buzzphrase. And with promises of a seamless choice of mobility across all modes of transport, in just one place, …
Continue readingSmart Mobility & Open Data (ITDP)
Many major cities around the world are seeing rapid population growth, resulting in increased strain on existing road and public transportation network infrastructure as the numbers on the daily commute swell. Smart mobility – putting …
Continue readingCloud tech to improve safety by direct passenger communication (SmartRailWorld)
Smartphone technology is being used on the Melbourne rail network in a way not yet seen anywhere else in the world to measure passenger traffic and send messages direct to phones in a bid to …
Continue readingHow Strava, the App for Athletes, Became an App for Cities (Fast Company Design)
Strava built a popular social network for millions of runners and cyclists. But more than 100 cities and states are quietly working with the app, too. Every 40 days, a million people join Strava. It’s …
Continue readingShare data and transport innovation will follow (CityMetric)
“To help close the gap between public transit and your doorstep, we’re teaming up with Amtrak,” announced Lyft, Uber’s largest competitor, earlier this month. The partnership will allow Americans to ditch their cars and let …
Continue readingUber’s Movement: A peek at their data (City Observatory)
Uber’s lifting the veil – just a little – to provide data on urban transportation performance. Uber’s new Movement tool provides valuable new source of data about travel times in urban environments. We’ve gotten an …
Continue readingUnderground Wifi Tracking – TfL’s Official Report (Gizmodo)
London Underground Wifi Tracking: Here’s Everything We Learned From TfL’s Official Report Earlier this year, Gizmodo UK scored ourselves a scoop, as we exclusively revealed some of the findings from last year’s wifi tracking trial, …
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