Sustainable Transportation Lab


December 15, 2017

Are Private Free Float Systems the Death of Publicly Available Bike Share Data?

In my last blog post, I wrote about the new bike share systems that have taken over the city of Seattle. However, when writing this post, I left out one major detail, the data for the bike share companies is not publicly available like that of their predecessor. This issue has been brought back to…


December 11, 2017

Flying taxis and urban sprawl

We have made great progress when it comes to transportation technologies at the beginning of the 21st century. A lot of the things that were inconceivable in the past have become reality or close to reality recently, such as the high-speed rail (top speed 267mph), electric vehicle, autonomous vehicles, and Hyperloop (750mph).  Just when we…