For most people, airline rankings are subjective; they really depend on your beliefs, your personal experience, and your individual preferences. However, when looking at airlines through a data lens, there are some ways of measuring the best and worst airlines in the US. One such way is to use publicly available tools — such as …
Most people mistakenly believe that when you plan a city with an efficient road system, there isn’t really room to make it walkable. However, these features are not mutually exclusive. With people-oriented city planning, you can improve a city’s walkability without compromising its car accessibility (although compromising car accessibility isn’t necessarily a bad thing). The …
As a general rule of thumb, transportation costs are supposed to be less than 15% of your annual income — that means that for a typical household in the U.S., with an income around $53,889, expenses should come out to about $8,083 a year or $674 a month. However, as outlined with the tools below, …
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How to reduce traffic congestion — oh what a question! Why? Because as we’ve all experienced, congestion is frustrating, it wastes valuable time, and it has HUGE social and environmental impacts. But what if there was a really simple answer for it all. Does that really exist? Does it have to be complicated? Well, for …
Read more “How To Reduce Traffic Congestion? Put People Over Cars”
“Biodiver City” is a proposed project by the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) to create a small chain of biodiverse island habitats off the northwest coast of Malaysia to alleviate overcrowding on the country’s mainland. The Malaysian island of Penang, typically known for its beaches and food, is set to host this new project, where three …
Historically, questions about transit equity have been pretty difficult to answer. That’s because the opportunity gaps that exist across race, income, and other characteristics were beyond the computational capabilities of transit agencies. But advances in how agencies report service information have finally made it possible to quantify these access-to-opportunity metrics. Insert the TransitCenter Equity Dashboard. …