My objective for the GreenCityStreets website is to share information and ideas on how to use internet and mobile applications to improve public participation in sustainable urban mobility planning. The website will provide: Links to applications I’ve developed to improve participation; A blog to share ideas and information about using applications to improve public participation; […]
Andy has made several presentations about the GreenCityStreets project and the use of social networking to improve transport. Here’s a brief summary: GreenCityStreets – Work in Progress made at Wohnen & Mobilität, 28. November 2012, IG Architektur, 1060 Wien. Social Networks and Transport – Presentation made at SPUR San Francisco and San Jose, November 2012. […]
I made three presentations about GreenCityStreets at the Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress 2012 which was just held in Vienna. Here’s a link to my personal blog with links to the presentations: andynash.com The presentations were well received and we are looking forward to finding a public transport agency looking for an innovative way to […]
I’ll be making a presentation about GreenCityStreets at the ITS World Congress 2013 in Vienna this October. I’ll be talking about it at a session on social networking and also be presenting a paper. Here are session details: Social Networking and ITS: Roadmap to a Revolution? SIS36 Wednesday 24 October 2012 – 16:00 – 17:30 – […]
I’m making a presentation on GreenCityStreets at the Stadtgespräch: Innovationen für die Stadtentwicklung in Vienna on Tuesday May 15. The conference will be held from 9:00 until 12:00 at the Bahnorama (Favoritenstraße 51, 1100 Wien), the visitor center for the new Vienna Main Train station. Should be an interesting conference with presentations from 12 different innovative […]
The ideas of frequent rider programs for public transport operators is intriguing. Jarrett Walker at humantransit.org has a great article today on the subject. (Jarrett quotes the Atlantic article by Alexis Madrigal about Stanford professor Balaji Prabhakar). Jarrett’s point is that a frequent rider program is probably an overly complicated approach for helping shift demand from […]
Today I created two pages to describe the project and how to improve public transport: About the BusMeister Project Improve Public Transport The “Improve Public Transport” page is the starting page for a set of pages that describe relatively simple and inexpensive (compared to building new rail-based public transport lines) measures that can be used […]
Here are some organizations working on using Web 2.0 for sustainable transportation: Open Plans – umbrella organization for lots of great projects including open transportation, streetsblog, streetfilms (a recent Streetfilms video on Transport Camp West is embedded above) … wow. govloop – Gov Loop is a social network for people working on Web 2.0 in […]
The purpose of this blog is to explore the application of Web 2.0 techniques to create more sustainable transportation systems. It’s a topic I have been interested in for many years; here are a few of my papers on the subject: An Integrated Web 2.0 Approach for Improving Public Transport pdf 2010 IT for Smart […]