The Barcelona Metropolitan Area has expanded its bus fleet with electric and hybrid vehicles. Some of these new vehicles are longer than the existing ones. This makes more difficult for the driver to bring the bus to the stop in a way that ensures safe boarding for...
The 8.13% of the citizens of Barcelona (132,133 citizens) have some type of disability. 54% of these people are women and 46% are men. 51.3% are people over 5 years old. In both sexes, physical motor disability predominates, but in the case of women, the mental...
What do we know about universal accessibility? Universal accessibility means much more than being able to put a wheelchair on the bus or that a vision impaired person can cross a crosswalk because of the beeps that the traffic light emits when it turns green....
A good city has to have a reliable transport system. With growing population and increasing consumer requirements, it is important that city authorities get their act together and devise plans that smartly tackle such demands. In other words, designing transport...
The Houston Bike Plan was adopted by City Council on March 22nd, 2017. The City is in the process of identifying next steps to prioritize and implement the recommendations of the Plan (Houston Bikeways Program). By 2027, it is expected that the City of Houston will be...
Why Tactical Transit is the Next Big Thing. The raffish, worldwide movement known as tactical urbanism appears poised to take on a meatier role in improving transit in bus corridors. By providing low cost, agile alternatives to lengthy street improvement processes,...
New York City Department of Transportation has installed the first Vectorial® system bus boarder platform by ZICLA at a bus stop in Brooklyn. It is a pilot test intended to optimize the time used by buses on their routes, as well as improve accessibility at bus stops...