Public Transit

Bicycling

Integrating Pedestrians and Bicycles to Promote More Non-Motorized Travel

Posted on February, 2012 Categories: Bicycling , Building Green , Communities , Featured , Infrastructure , Public Transit , Transportation How Can Communities Effectively Integrate Pedestrians and Bicycles to Promote More Non-Motorized Travel?  The Mineta Transportation Institute (transweb.sjsu.edu) has published a free report that identifies best practices and Read more
University of Arkansas

Solar-Powered Runway Anti-icing System

Posted on January, 2012 Categories: Building Green , Communities , Energy , Featured , Public Transit , Solar , Transportation Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas are developing an anti-icing system that could make airport runways safer and less expensive to maintain during winter months. The approach uses a conventional photovoltaic system Read more
bike rental

Bike Rental Program Puts New Spin on Recycling

Posted on August, 2011 Categories: Bicycling , Communities , Featured , Public Transit , Recycling , Transportation , Waste Management Two years ago, Florida State University senior Sandy Simmons went to a college housing conference and got a big idea: recycled bike rentals for students — on the cheap. Read more
Walking

One-Million Kilometres in One Week: Results from Clean Air Commute

Posted on July, 2011 Categories: Bicycling , Business , Featured , Green Initiatives , Public Transit , Transportation Toronto, ON, Canada - Thousands of Canadians have saved the skies from more than 480 tonnes of air pollution during the Clean Air Commute, powered by Pollution Probe, a Canadian not-for-profit organization Read more
Clic

Clic: A New Take on Carpooling

Posted on July, 2011 Categories: Building Green , Communities , Electric Vehicles , Featured , Infrastructure , Public Transit , Transportation Montreal, QC, Canada -  A group of dignitaries recently gathered for the announcement of a new take on carpooling, offering carpoolers the opportunity to use electric cars to get to AMT park-and-ride parking lots at Cartier and Montmorency metro stations Read more
Siemens

San Francisco Leads the U.S. in Environmental Sustainability

Posted on June, 2011 Categories: Building Green , Communities , Energy , Energy Savings , Infrastructure , Public Transit , Recycling , Transportation , Waste Management , Water Management San Francisco grabbed the mantle of "greenest" major city in the U.S. and Canada Green City Index, with New York, Seattle, Denver and Boston rounding out the top five U.S. cities.  The unique study conducted by Read more
CityCarShare

CarSharing Industry Forms Association to Drive Best Practices

Posted on June, 2011 Categories: Communities , Green Initiatives , Leisure , Public Transit , Transportation , Travel San Francisco, CA - In order to maximize the environmental and social impact of the carsharing industry, eighteen carsharing organizations from around the world have launched the CarSharing Association (CSA). City CarShare, Read more
School Bus

Green Eco School Bus

Posted on May, 2011 Categories: Biofuels , Business , Check It Out! , Communities , Energy , Green Initiatives , Hybrids , Public Transit , Transportation The Ford Motor Company Fund and the Georgia Institute of Technology are partnering on the nation's first conversion of a traditional school bus to a hydraulic hybrid vehicle Read more
cities

NAR Study Finds Americans Prefer Smart Growth Communities

Posted on April, 2011 Categories: Building Green , Communities , Consumer , Planning , Public Transit , Transportation Americans favor walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods, with 56 percent of respondents preferring smart growth neighborhoods over neighborhoods that require more driving between home, work and recreation. Read more
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Two Grants Awarded to Improve Outlook for Fuel Cell Buses

Posted on April, 2011 Categories: Business , Communities , Energy , Fuel Cells , Public Transit , Transportation Dec. 22, 2010 - CALSTART, an organization working nationally to grow the clean transportation technology industry, announced it has been selected for more than $10 million from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), for two projects that Read more
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