9 Best Articles in 2021
uber.design
Rebrand 2018 | Case studies
uber.design
6 min read · 496 saves · From 2018 ·
A tech startup turned global mobility platform in eight
short years: that deserves a holistic brand system that’s instantly
recognizable, works around the world, and is efficient to execute.
The New York Times
I’ve Seen a Future Without Cars, and It’s Amazing
The New York Times
~16 min read · 380 saves · 2020-07-09 · Why do American cities waste so much space on cars?
Rolling Stone
Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow
Rolling Stone
20+ min read · 371 saves · From 2017 · Inside Elon Musk's world-changing plans to inhabit outer space, revolutionize high-speed transportation, reinvent cars – and find love along the way.
google.com
COVID-19 Community Mobility Report
google.com
330 saves · 2020-04-03 · See how your community is moving around differently due to COVID-19
Tim Urban
How Tesla Will Change The World
Tim Urban
252 saves · From 2016 · The story of how change really happens.
apple.com
COVID‑19 - Mobility Trends Reports
apple.com
204 saves · 2020-04-14 · COVID‑19 mobility trends in countries/regions and cities. Reports are published daily and reflect requests for directions.
medium.com
The Third Transportation Revolution
medium.com
~16 min read · 180 saves · From 2016 · Lyft’s Vision for the Next Ten Years and Beyond
Introduction: A Country Built for Cars
I remember when I first fell in love with cars.
WIRED
How to Design Streets for Humans—and Self-Driving Cars
WIRED
5 min read · 171 saves · From 2017 · A new blueprint from city transportation planners and engineers, who say it's never too early to start thinking about the future.
VICE
Why the US Sucks at Building Public Transit
VICE
20+ min read · 165 saves · 2020-03-09 · America is worse at building and operating public transit than nearly all of its peers. Why is that? And what can we do to fix it?
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Guardian Environment
Want to make the streets safer for women? Start with cycling
Guardian Environment
3 min read · 13 saves · Mar 26th · The UK’s cycling infrastructure is hostile to women – and smart new measures in Paris and Lisbon show that it’s time to overhaul the system
PNASNews
Provisional COVID-19 infrastructure induces large, rapid increases in cycling
PNASNews
11 saves · Mar 30th · Active travel makes people healthier and creates a wide range of additional social and environmental benefits. The provision of dedicated infrastructure is considered a crucial policy to increase cycling. However, evaluating the impact of this type of intervention is difficult because infrastructure changes are typically slow. The rollout of so-called pop-up bike lanes during the COVID-19 pandemic is a unique empirical context to estimate the pull effect of new cycling infrastructure. We show that the policy has worked. We find large increases in cycling. This result is robust for a variety of empirical counterfactuals. Further research is needed to investigate whether this change is persistent and whether similar results can be achieved in situations outside the context of a pandemic.
Raw data and code have been deposited in Zenodo (DOI: [10.5281/zenodo.3973038][1]) ([31][2]).
[1]: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3973038
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Electrek.Co
Why e-mobility is such a hot spot for innovation right now
Electrek.Co
6 min read · 11 saves · Mar 24th · Electrek spoke with Danielle Harris, director of mobility innovation at Elemental Excelerator, about e-mobility's challenges and successes.
Data for Progress
Memo: Electrifying America’s Public Transportation Systems
Data for Progress
1 min read · Mar 18th · Greening America’s public transportation infrastructure is a vital component of tackling the climate crisis.
LSE
How Mexican cities could meet women’s transport needs
LSE
Mar 8th · The majority of women in Mexican cities depend on public transport to get to their jobs. Yet sprawling urban development and a lack of safe, well-connected transport infrastructure means they are d…
Forbes
Design For Human Beings Not Cars, New U.S. Transport Secretary Says
Forbes
3 min read · Mar 22nd · “In the 50s the mentality around roads was that they existed for one purpose and that was to move as many cars as you could as fast as you could,” the new U. S. transport secretary has told a…
Forbes
Self-Driving Cars Aiming To Change Our Most Favorite Of Car Colors
Forbes
~12 min read · Mar 20th · Giving consideration to the painted car colors of today and what might occur with the advent of self-driving cars.
Forbes
Amazon And The Electrification Of Urban Transport
Forbes
2 min read · Mar 20th · Amazon’s collaboration with electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian is bearing fruit: on February 3, the vehicles began being rolled out in Los Angeles, and on March 18, in San Francisco. The time has…
sciencedirect.com
The hidden costs of energy and mobility: A global meta-analysis and research synthesis of electricity and transport…
sciencedirect.com
Mar 10th · What is the range and scope of externalities associated with electricity supply, energy efficiency, and transport? What research methods and technique…
The Economist
Baidu turns to personal transport for growth
The Economist
2 min read · Mar 19th · Will robotaxis and electric cars make up for slowing advertising revenues?
