transportation

Sunday 13 January


Sunday 27 August

  • Faces At The Airport (19:08) - Writing software to detect these expressions would be fun. ... | 2 Comments

Tuesday 9 May

  • Jets Dodging Thunderstorms (11:14) - Time lapse radar of Fedex jets avoiding a thunderstorm as they make their way to Nashville. I like when the thunderstorm hits and they all run away.... | 0 Comments

Thursday 1 December

  • london underground by travel time (11:57) - A student at the London College of Communication set out to redesign the London Underground map. He did so by designing the map around the travel time between each stop, rather than the distance. He documented the project well and... | 3 Comments

Thursday 1 September

  • Patriotism at $3.37/gal (10:09) - The Gulf station at 22nd & Spring Garden St. Philadelphia, PA. I had breakfast across the street for $2.33. It included two eggs, hash browns, toast, orange juice and coffee. Which is the better deal? How much is gas... | 14 Comments

Thursday 18 August


Tuesday 31 May


Tuesday 5 April

  • $105 a barrel oil (21:34) - Goldman Sachs says oil could spike to $105/b Is it time to revisit peak oil? In short, we're running out of energy rapidly and like it or not we're going to have to revert our worst mistake ever, vast suburban... | 3 Comments

Saturday 26 February

  • Jeepneys (23:46) - The most hilarious form of transportation in Manila and elsewhere in th Philippines is the Jeepney, old US Army Jeeps converted into public transportation. Open to the elements, and occassionally to armed robbers, at 5 pesos (about 10 cents) it's...

Wednesday 23 February

  • The Honda Trunk Bike (09:38) - Looks like an early 80s Honda advertisement from Japan for a small scooter that folds up and can fit in your trunk. Or you can use it as a table and put a potted plant on it. I want...

Tuesday 15 February

  • Bike Theif (10:18) - How easy is it to steal a bike in NYC? (qt mov) New York City is home to nearly 112,000 bicycle riders, unfortunately it is also home to some of the worst bike thieves in the country. A bicycle...

Monday 7 February

  • Hokkaido installs musical roads (12:04) - Japan has already dabbled here and there with road surfaces that keep drivers awake by using appropriately-placed troughs to play rhythms through your tires. Now the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute has gone a step further, with grooved sections of...

Wednesday 2 February

  • NYC declares war on cyclists (11:14) - Cory Doctorow: New York has declared war on bicyclists. Last week, participants in the monthly "Critical Mass" ride were dragged from their bikes and arrested, their wheels confiscated (this amid a climate where city lawmakers are proposing to ban...

Friday 7 January

  • How to find a parking space (14:31) - MSNBC ran a piece on the various strategies for finding parking spaces. It brought back fond memories of trying to find parking at Ohio State's central campus lots for class. My strategy was as little different than the ones discussed...

Friday 1 October

  • Open Source Solar Scooter (00:46) - Couple days ago on /....MONTREAL - A couple of entrepreneurs in Montreal are teaching people how to build their own solar-powered scooters by making the instructions freely available on the internet. Initially designed with $600,000 (assumed to be in CDN),...

Thursday 16 September

  • Kryptonite Locks hacked with Bic Pen (00:22) - At first I didn't believe this... then I tried it. Takes me less than 5 seconds to pop the lock. These locks are the industry standard and this secret is out all over the place. Slashdot discussion here, no wonder...

Thursday 9 September

  • Sponsor a Bus Rider (12:49) - Here's a random thought: out of all those who, despite driving along a well functioning bus line, choose to commute by car how many would give up a few dollars to get someone else's car out of your way? Too...
  • PAYD (Pay As You Drive) Insurance (01:15) - Maybe you've heard of it before. If not here is a rundown of why we should get the option of insurance-by-the-mile.Econ 101 says that when something is free, people consume too much. In this case, all-you-can-drive insurance encourages people to...

Tuesday 3 August

  • Ayu Fans Unite (00:03) - The ancient Mexican artform of painting giant images on your vehicle has undergone hybridization/mutation/exclamation in Japan. Here is one fine example, all of fans of the Japanese pop megastar Ayumi Hamasaki. About Hamasaki Ayumi She is Japanese singer.She sing a...

Saturday 17 July


Monday 28 June

  • Chinatown Bus Turf Wars (00:27) - Taking a Chinatown bus is a popular way to get from one East Coast city to another these days. With many Chinatown bus companies connecting Boston, New York, Philadelphia and DC, competition is getting cut-throat. Literally. According to the Philadelphia...

Friday 11 June


Thursday 3 June

  • Old Railway Maps of Taiwan (21:36) - And you thought the New York subway map was confusing... Old Railway Maps of Taiwan [from del.icio.us]...

Monday 31 May

  • Airport Security "Fast Pass" (22:05) - The TSA is going to start a "fast pass" trial to allow registered travelers to pass through airport security quicker and without worry of secondary checks. To become registered travelers will have to go through an extensive background check and...

Friday 12 March

  • "I'm Old, Don't Hit Me" (19:20) - China is adopting American car culture with many casualties. Apparently, they want all the benefits that come along with having a strong automotive manufacturing industry, but are they prepared to face the consequences... we see the damage that auto-dependence has...

Wednesday 3 March


Sunday 22 February

  • Urban Green Space (23:38) - Fukuoka, Japan, was in need of a new government office building and the only available site was a large two-block park that also happened to be the last remaining green space in the city center.That's one way to make...

Tuesday 17 February

  • bio diesel (15:15) - I was looking for a recipe for fish and chips today when I learned that you can run a diesel car on organic oils like vegetable and soy based oils. Turns out that in Wales it is cheaper to run...

Thursday 12 February

  • Under the Freeway (02:30) - Awhile back there was a Metropolis Magazine article about a proposal to reclaim the areas underneath the elevated Gardiner Expressway in Toronto, which cuts through downtown along the waterfront. These highways that cut through urban centers often serve as a...

Sunday 18 January

  • Airboard 2000 (02:12) - Fuck a Segway! Hoverboards are way cooler.. in theory. In practice, there is the Airboard 2000 [video], brought to you by a company named Arbortech in the Australia. The device itself looks cool albeit it's not the size of a...

Saturday 10 January

  • The GM Hot Button (19:51) - Maybe you have seen the GM commercials for the Hot Button contest. Basically you go to a GM dealership showroom, hop in a car and press the OnStar button to see if you win. Over the next few months they...

Thursday 18 December

  • Slugging (01:51) - Today I learned about slugging, a byproduct of the 1970s oil embargo crisis forcing the policy of HOV lanes! Cars without the required number of people to travel in the HOV lanes will pick up "slugs" who then share the...
  • MagicBike (01:32) - MagicBike, a wireless internet connection on wheels. How it works is simple: a computer hanging off the bike connects to the internet via cellphone internet (or to another wireless access point) and it allows others in the vicinity to share...

Monday 15 December

  • Taxicarbussharing (00:58) - Recently, I learned about Taxibus, a new hi-tech dynamically-routed microbussing solution in the UK, "Revolutionary Urban Transportation for 21st Century Cities". It works like this: a rider contacts the Intelligent Grouping Transportation system with their cellphone, request a pickup (whoa,...