Tomorrowland - from The Atlantic

10:05 am  •  29 May 2010

North Carolina DOT to spend millions on “critter crossing!”

Transportation officials, with a strong push by environmental regulators, intend to build two underpasses just for wildlife and a smaller wildlife tunnel, as well as lengthen four bridges along the four-lane highway. Chunks of the estimated $400 million roadway also will be lined with 10-foot-tall fencing to funnel animals toward the dedicated crossings.

10:10 am  •  2 December 2009

From The Urbanophile:

John Robert Smith on Transportation

I was able to catch up with John Robert Smith, CEO of Reconnecting America, and he recorded a short two minute video for me. If you only watch one of the videos I post, make it this one. He makes two incredibly important points that are too often overlooked when it comes to the livable cities agenda. The first is that we need to build an urban-small town-rural coalition around a new transportation policy. The other is that these issues are, or should be, non-partisan.

9:03 am  •  11 November 2009  •  5 notes

This image comes from a very cool demonstration of an IBM concept for Intelligent Transporation Systems using realtime sensor data. It links to the IBM landing page for their “Smart Traffic” proposal. They get to the point:

Building new roads and new lanes often just isn’t possible any longer, but building intelligence into the roads and the cars—with roadside sensors, radio frequency tags, and global positioning systems—certainly is.

Also (and this is a digression), check out that snazzy menu of all of IBM’s “A Smarter Planet” topics on the landing page. RAD:

1:09 pm  •  27 October 2009