transportation

Mobility Transit infrastructure Urban Planning 

Transportation Bonanza 11: The Rural, The Urban, And The MDOT

February 17, 2020February 20, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments conferences, field trips, green stormwater infrastructure, lansing, mdot, michigan, mobility, planning, stormwater, transit, transportation, transportation engineering, transportation planning, Urban planning

Nat takes a snowy Thursday trip to the capital to attend the Transportation Bonanza in Lansing with other planners, engineers, and nerds.

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Public transit Travel 

Bridging The Transit Gulf: APTA Conference in Tampa

December 20, 2019December 20, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments APTA, BRT, climate change, conference, ferry, florida, growth management, HART, LRT, public transit, Sprawl, st. petersburg, suburbs, tampa, tampa bay, taxes, transit, transit infrastructure, transit initatives, transportation, travel, urban growth boundary

I just wrapped up a few days in Tampa for APTA’s Transit Initiatives workshop. The mini-conference, produced by the DC-based

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Public transit Transit infrastructure Urban Planning 

The New Mobility Requires A New Workforce

December 9, 2019December 9, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments amazon, amazon bid, amazon hq2, autonomous vehicles, bay area, cass corridor, economic development, Ford, garlin gilchrist, Gretchen Whitmer, jeff bezos, Midtown Detroit, mobility, nissan, smart city, sustainable mobility, talent attraction, talent retention, techtown, transit, transportation, wayne state university

This morning I attended “Driving Our AV Future,” an event produced by the Michigan Mobility Institute (MMI) and the Partnership for

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Transit infrastructure Urban Planning 

New Mobility Needs Old Mobility, Too!

October 30, 2019November 5, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments AAA, bikeshare, Bird, Detroit, lime, limebike, lisa nuszkowski, lyft, MoGo, net impact, ni19, nico probst, prashanth gururaja, public transit, scooters, shared use mobility center, Spin, TNC, transit, transportation, Transportation Network Companies, Uber, USDoT

I admit that I often approach discussions of “new mobility” with trepidation. Many mobility-themed events in Detroit are launched with

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Transit infrastructure Urban Planning 

Autonomous Vehicles And The City Of To-Morrow

September 11, 2019September 11, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments autonomous vehicles, AVs, Cruise, cruise automation, dedicated short range communications, DSCR, Ford, general motors, intelligent transportation systems, mobility, public transit, sustainable mobility, Tesla, transit, transportation, urban mobility, Waymo

No, it’s not a Potemkin Village in which erstwhile Governor Rick Snyder staged his great Austerity March for propaganda films.

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Urban Planning 

Tschö, Detroit!

October 31, 2017October 23, 2017 admin 0 Comments autonomous vehicles, Detroit, germany, mobility, multi-modal transportation, nordrhein-westfalen, public transit, Toronto, transatlantic exchange, transit, transportation, windsor

Today I’m headed off on a multi-modal transit odyssey that will eventually land me in the Ruhrgebiet, in Nordrhein-Westfalen, as

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