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"MANILA - Chris Ibasan travels only about five miles to work each day in one of Manila's business districts, but it is often a grueling two-hour commute that gets him into the office late. "My manager understands," said Mr. Ibasan, a 24-year-old shipping company employee. "Everyone is late; even the managers are late for work." From Mr. Ibasan's perspective, the problem is simple. "There are too many people going to work, too many vehicles and not enough roads," he said. "And taking the train is like lining up to see a movie star. You wait for hours." But from an economist's perspective, the problem is even larger. The 2.2 million vehicles a day that grind away on Manila's crumbling road system cost the country 876 billion pesos a year, or more than $20 billion, in lost productivity and wasted energy, according to a recent study by the Japan International Cooperation Agency. That is a serious drain on an economy of about $250 billion."

"Traffic circles are ubiquitous in France, accepted as safer than traditional intersections. But they have also become an emblem of the country's ailments, from urban sprawl to inequality. France loves its roundabouts. They are ubiquitous throughout the country, including in Abbeville, a city of about 25,000. Credit...Aurelien Breeden/The New York Times By Aurelien Breeden Dec. 25, 2019 ABBEVILLE, France - Every day, about 65,000 vehicles cruise through the center of Abbeville, passing by its Gothic church, City Hall and rows of red brick houses, with many drivers on their way to the English Channel about a dozen miles away. But they never stop for a red light. None exist in this town of about 25,000 people. Instead, drivers bank, swerve and loop their way through traffic circle after traffic circle. Their ubiquity in Abbeville is an extreme example of France's unabashed embrace of the roundabout, found in abundance throughout the country and widely credited for making roads safer and less clogged. Even in Abbeville, on a recent morning, workers in fluorescent orange vests and hard hats were breaking ground on yet another traffic circle, as cars were backed up by the construction. Roundabouts played a central role in the Yellow Vests protests, when demonstrators occupied hundreds of the nation's roundabouts, blocking traffic as a way to demonstrate against a despised fuel tax increase in particular and a growing sense of inequality in general. But France's relationship with them has in some ways soured, their very pervasiveness making them a convenient scapegoat for many of France's ills, real or perceived. Pierre Vermeren, a French historian writing in Le Figaro last year, said roundabouts were a "symbol of ugly France" and the "emblem of French malaise." There are no official statistics, but estimates of the total number of traffic circles in France range from 20,000 to 50,000. In the United States - about 18 times bigger and five

"Concours de l'agent qui verbalise le plus, salle de pause réservée aux salariés méritants, diplôme du non-gréviste... La SNCF laisse libre cours à l'imagination de ses managers dans une zone du nord de Paris."

"Architecture firm NBBJ has unveiled a conceptual plan to turn London Underground's Circle Line tunnel into a 17-mile-long moving walkway. NBBJ's concept suggests replacing all of the trains on the underground rail network's Circle Line route with a set of three travelators, which would carry commuters along the route. Each of the three adjacent walkways would travel at a different speed, allowing commuters to start out at a manageable three miles per hour (mph) before moving across lanes of increasing speeds, up to the fastest at 15 mph."

"Dans chacun de ses cinq bus de luxe, la start-up vous permet de valider votre transport avec un QR code, pas la peine de trimbaler un billet ou une carte. Une fois à l'intérieur du bus ultra moderne boisé et hipstérisé, vous êtes carrément assis dans un café à l'atmosphère collaborative, avec le wifi gratuit et un bus manager qui tient son smartphone comme un menu, prêt à vous amener le jus de votre choix au premier clic de commande. L'autre valeur ajoutée de Leap, c'est un GPS qui permet de suivre le trajet en temps réel et une application donnant accès aux profils sociaux des autres passagers.     Loup et Chariot, deux concurrents symboles d'une tendance   Pensée initialement par les cinq co-fondateurs comme une offre complémentaire au MUNI, Leap entend apporter une solution pour faciliter le transit de masse. A 7 euros le jus de fruits frais, le service est pourtant a priori réservé à une certaine classe sociale, celle qui, d'après Venture Beat, est en train de tuer San Francisco. Paradoxalement le co-fondateur et CEO, Kyle Kirchhoff assure dans The Verge qu'il ne veut absolument pas que son bus soit élitiste."

"歩きスマホ (aruki-sumaho or, literally, "smartphone walking") refers to a pedestrian who uses a mobile phone while walking. On Feb. 28, the Tokyo Fire and Disaster Management Agency said that 36 individuals were hospitalized in 2013 due to injuries they sustained while using their mobile device and walking, an increase of 56 percent from 2010. The practice has become so endemic among commuters in Tokyo that some railway companies have even discussed banning people from using mobile phones on train platforms, a move that is unlikely to get a lot of traction."

"Difficile d'échapper à l'actualité d'Uber en cette fin d'année 2014, entre grève des taxis et déboires internationaux. Mais pour les spécialistes de l'innovation, Uber c'est d'abord le succès planétaire de son application mobile de mise en relation entre conducteurs et passagers. Nous avons rencontré son General Manager Expansion Alexandre Molla, qui nous parle de la vision, des ambitions et des obstacles de la startup américaine."

"Shibuya is a famous district and railway station in central Tokyo, famous for having the most busy pedestrian crossing in the world. The game SHIBUYA is a competitive puzzle game to guide pedestrians to their destinations. The game takes place at the heavily used pedestrian scramble at Shibuya, Tokyo. Pedestrians can successively move over adjoining grid's cells sharing the same color or shape, but they cannot move over the cells presently occupied by other pedestrians. Try to find your best route in the busy pedestrian scramble where people are rushing to all directions. In this puzzle game for two players, or for four as two teams (2 vs 2), first place the tiles to form the pedestrian scramble. The player or team who manages to have their pedestrians cross the street wins. "

"A railway operator has issued a sincere apology for the "tremendous nuisance" caused by a train departing 20 seconds early, surprising even a nation renowned for both punctuality and politeness. Metropolitan Intercity Railway Co. said the Tsukuba Express train linking Tokyo and its northern suburbs pulled out of Minami-Nagareyama Station at 9:44:20 instead of 9:44:40. "We deeply apologize for causing a tremendous nuisance to customers," the company said. "There was no complaint from customers over this incident," the firm said, adding that no one missed the train due to the premature departure. Japanese railway services, including bullet trains, are famous for their world-beating punctuality. Even the slightest delay prompts an effusive apology from train or station personnel, which often lasts longer than the holdup itself. With trains running the same route every few minutes to cope with huge numbers of passengers, even brief delays can back up the whole network and lead to overcrowding. Stations in Tokyo employ dozens of staff - with their famous white gloves - to ensure the prompt departure of trains and to manage the crush during rush hour."

"What makes a good bus stop sign so hard to find? Part of the answer is the amount of professional expertise it takes to develop clear and useful information displays. Many agencies lack specialized staff or resources; responsibility for sign projects is often left to managers who are really in charge of other projects. "Often, competing priorities result in minimal attention being given to these activities," wrote John Dobies, a Kansas City transit planner, in a 1996 white paper on the subject published by the Transportation Research Board."

"Surtout, les chercheurs comme les opérateurs voient plutôt le vélo comme un soutien plutôt qu'un concurrent des transports publics. « Les mettre en opposition serait totalement maladroit. Il peut y avoir un réflexe de protection de la part du monde des transports en commun qui a des difficultés pour trouver ses usagers - ce qui n'est d'ailleurs pas très vrai en Ile-de-France - mais le vélo est plutôt une bouffée d'oxygène pour des transports publics en voie de saturation », explique Dominique Riou. Il vous reste 29.67% de cet article à lire. La suite est réservée aux abonnés. CONTENUS SPONSORISÉS PAROUTBRAIN PUBLICITÉ TOP SITES DE RENCONTRE 4 sites de rencontre en ligne qui marchent vraiment  PUBLICITÉ MCDONALDS'S McDonald's recrute des managers. Rejoignez-nous ! "