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""Highway planners misjudged the future because the Great Recession reduced both commercial and passenger travel, and because of an unexpected drop in driving by young adults," writes Paul Nussbaum. The article includes a lengthy list of highway projects that moved forward based on projections that now look anything but clairvoyant."

"Peter Dovak really loves public transportation. So much so that in April of last year, the freelance illustrator in Washington, D.C., decided to create a meticulously detailed infographic depicting every kind of bus used by the D.C. transit system. In an accompanying blog entry, he described this project as "the nerdiest post ever"-but this was only the beginning. "When I finished, I was curious about doing the same for my favorite city, Toronto. Then, like most of my projects, it just kept expanding from there," he tells CityLab via email. Twenty-four cities and a dozen or so vehicle types later, Dovak's magisterial project, "City Transit," is ready for its close up."

""The project is based on two main opposing inspir­a­tions: Research trips to learn about inten­tional communities like the Amish, who care­fully select which tech­no­lo­gies to intro­duce to the community, and an extra­pol­a­tion of current scientific research which embraces tech­no­lo­gical alter­a­tion of nature. The outcome of the project is a fant­ast­ical caravan, a nomadic module of illu­sionary freedom, which explores our belief in tech­no­lo­gical progress. Thus, it examines, ironically, critically, how the dream of self-sufficiency and sustain­ab­ility can be become a reality, implying that everyone is now able to produce goods, to commu­nicate with anyone without being charged or tracked and to fulfil basic needs without forgoing modern conveniences.  The utopian idea of a different society on a micro scale is reinterpreted and brought in a contemporary context where existing and near future technologies as synthetic biology, genetic engineering, bio-printing and new form of production methods are made public to every individual rather than being owned, administrated and distributed by venture capitalists." - voir Cruiser Charisma."

"The Efficient Passenger Project is on a mission to put up signs throughout the subway system guiding commuters to the best spot to board a train in order to make the quickest exit or transfer. The anonymous participants have been placing "Efficient Passenger Project" stickers on and around the turnstiles in select subway stations, signaling the presence of a plaque on the platform that tells you exactly where to stand to make your commute most efficient."

"Oui mais c'était sans compté sur l'artiste Milo Project qui a décidé de légèrement compliquer la tâche des usagers en remplaçant les plans de métro de la RATP par des plans vierges à travers son projet Nowhere/Everywhere. Ce ne sont que des mots, que des noms, que des quartiers… A-t-on vraiment besoin de ces derniers ?"

"He plans, he says, to construct networks of tunnels throughout cities with faster, more efficient boring technology. The tunnels could carry individual cars or eight- to sixteen-passenger "pods" on electric skates, traveling up to 150 mph. (Longer tunnels, between cities, would be perfect for hyperloop, another interest.) Less than a year after its founding, the Boring Company is already talking about taking its mass transit solution to real, live cities. In July, Musk announced that he had "verbal government approval" to build a hyperloop between Washington, DC and New York City, which could carry commuters between the two in less than 30 minutes. (A White House official later suggested that he had, perhaps, given Musk the wrong idea, and that the project had not been approved, verbally or otherwise.) In November, Musk said the company would bid on a project to build a new, faster rail link between downtown Chicago and O'Hare Airport. And in early December, the Boring Company released a map showing a proposed tunnel network in Los Angeles, which could transport both private cars and shared pods between Long Beach Airport in the south, Santa Monica in the west, Dodger Stadium in the east, and Sherman Oaks in the north."

"he hustle and bustle of Mexico City leaves cyclists feeling "invisible", which is putting people off cycling. Local design agency José de la O have created a fun, musical prototype to help lessen the fear of cycling and get more people on their bikes. Local government in Mexico City is providing infrastructure to facilitate cycling around their busy city as bikes are becoming more and more popular. ECOBICI is a public bicycle-docking service, much like Santander Cyclers (Boris Bikes to many of us), that has been provided by the government for the past seven years. Thomas Hoogewerf, an intern at Studio José de la O, decided to conduct research as part of their Project Friday Initiative (part of the agency's intern program where every intern develops a speculative or critical design project every Friday for six months, which they can then publish in their portfolio), that looked into how the service could be improved based upon people's experiences. It turned out that one of the key issues that the interviewees found with cycling in Mexico City is that "people don't notice you, you are not present enough"."

"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."

"Armed with a $10 billion transit construction budget, two to six players compete to build a city-wide network consisting of subways, LRTs, high-speed bus routes and bike lanes. On their respective turns, players may choose to plan, build or ride. They also draw TRANSIT CITY cards, which determine the course of the game with a wide range of outcomes that accelerate or impede the creation of the network. With each new line, the $10 billion fund is drawn down, depending on the length and type of the project. The scoring system rewards players for building the right type of transit in the right spot. But if one player opts to invest huge sums on an ineffective transit route, everyone will face the consequences. TRANSIT CITY ends either when the $10 billion has been used up, or when the first player reaches the last stop by amassing 100 points. "

"The capital of the Philippines has some of the worst traffic in the world, costing the metro area an estimated £45m a day. While some pin their hopes on new road projects, others think e-jeepneys could be part of the solution"

"During Taipei's year as the World Design Capital (WDC), various projects and installments have been integrated throughout the city, bringing design to the street level. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Taipei MRT, in conjunction with the WDC, Taipei has extended design concepts into their metro system."

"Look Up is the latest of Ijeoma's data-driven urbanism-related projects. It uses GPS and wi-fi to detect when a person is approaching an intersection. At that point, the phone starts vibrating, and the home screen lights up with a colorful animation of eyeballs-a very literal reminder to keep your eyes on the road in front of you. (The app lets users choose whether they want to be reminded at each intersection, at every third one, or at random ones.) The number of vibrations and ring around the irises of the animated eyeballs indicate how many car crashes have occurred there."

"The decision to look at how men and women used public transit wasn't a shot in the dark. It was part of a project aimed at taking gender into account in public policy. In Vienna, this is called gender mainstreaming."

"Pendant 3 jours, du 28 au 30 mai, les Londoniens peuvent assister à des projections de films dans une station de métro désaffectée. Ce cinéma pop-up est le résultat d'un partenariat entre le métro de Londres et l'Underground Film Club. "

"THERE ARE PLENTY of ways to get directions in the car, but most have one big shortcoming. Whether you're using a standalone GPS, in-car navi system, smartphone, the Apple Watch, or even a paper map, you have to look away from the road (you know, that thing you're supposed to be paying attention to when driving) in order to see where you're supposed to be going. So how to keep your eyes on the road and not get lost? One option is the heads-up display. Increasingly common on high-end cars, these devices project things like navigation directions and current speed onto the windshield, so the driver has important information right in their field of vision. It's a technology that's fast spreading beyond this incarnation, though: We've seen screens showing ghost cars for racers, and another that uses lasers to "paint" the edge of a road on the windshield in inclement weather. Then there are these wacky augmented reality concept goggles from Mini. One of the latest gadgets to enter the fray is something called the Navion, from Swiss firm WayRay."

"By all accounts, the self-driving vehicle, unlike the personal jetpack, will come to a salesroom near you sometime in the near future. When an idea moves from speculation to designed product the work necessary to bring it into the world means that it is necessary to consider the many, many facets of its existence - the who, what, how, when, why's of the self-driving car. It's easy to speculate about the self-driving car. But, touch on the topic of allowing one's self-driving car to be used in the Uber network of modern-day taxis immediately begs the question - what do you do if you forget a bag of groceries after sending it into Uber mode? Will there be a geo-fencing mechanisms to control where the car goes - and how fast it goes - when you give the "keys" to your teenage son to take to football practice. How does the car pickup groceries - and how do you upload the list - when you send it on errands? To spark a conversation around the larger questions regarding a world of autonomous vehicles, we set about to create a tangible artifact from the near future of the self-driving car. We ran a workshop at IxDA 2015 in collaboration with students from the CCA and conference participants to create the interaction design for a self-driving car. We did this as a way of digging into the details, discussing the known topics and raising many more unknown ones. Our design brief: Represent the features, attributes, characteristics and behaviors of the self-driving car and its requisite "ecosystems" through the vehicle's Quick Start Guide. The result helps: Get a feel of the things you might do first and do often with your first self-driving vehicle. Experience the consequences and implications of a world with self-driving vehicles. Discover how Design Fiction can help you discover the unknown unknowns for your projects."

"Au printemps 2013, JCDecaux a rendu publiques les données (situation de bornes, disponibilités de vélos) qu'elle détenait sur le système Vélib', espérant ainsi donner envie à des entrepreneurs de rendre l'expérience utilisateur plus agréable. « la nouvelle accessibilité de ces informations […] permettra la création de nouveaux sites web ou de nouvelles applications mobiles pour une promotion renouvelée de ce mode de déplacement doux », expliquait à l'époque Albert Asséraf, directeur de la stratégie JCDecaux dans un communiqué de presse . Les start-up sont nombreuses depuis quelques années à lancer des projets qui gravitent autour du partage de vélos. Qu'il s'agisse de pouvoir connaître la distance jusqu'à la prochaine station de vélos, grâce à la réalité augmentée, sous forme de projection sur le sol en temps réel avec SmartWalk ou d'anticiper les comportements de mobilité urbaine grâce à l'analyse prédictive avec qucit, les initiatives de digital mobility, concernant le partage de vélos en particulier, sont nombreuses. Pour les auteurs de l'étude, les fournisseurs et opérateurs de vélos en libre service pour les municipalités ne se penchent pas sur la véritable problématique : « Une des raisons pour les lesquelles les gens n'utilisent pas le système de vélos partagés autant qu'ils le pourraient est que les opérateurs se concentrent sur le design des vélos et la technologie qui les compose » explique Elena Belvina. Les systèmes de partage de vélos ont le potentiel de révolutionner les transports urbains mais cela passe certainement par des ajustements en ce qui concerne l'agencement du réseau."

"The overload of dumped waste on the streets of Oakland has inspired Gregory Kloehn to create a series of tiny mobile houses. Created from all sorts of trash, the artist's one-of-a-kind accommodations are meant to give the city's homeless a modest accommodation. With the Homeless Homes Project, Kloehn wants to prove that building an own house is possible without money and with a lot of creativity."

"C'est également le pari du consortium européen Personal Plane Project. Les travaux de recherche et développement de la commission européenne aux transports sont en effet arrivés à la conclusion que l'aviation électrique individuelle pourrait être la solution idéale pour l'avenir de la mobilité à l'échelle de l'Union. Propre, silencieux, sûr, économique, un avion électrique dans la veine de l'e-fan d'Airbus allierait la rapidité du transport aérien à la simplicité du transport routier. Au terme de l'étude, le modèle retenu est celui d'avion automatiques décollant en continu d'aérodromes locaux, avec à leur bord entre 4 et 8 personnes à la fois. Cela mettrait alors chaque Européen à moins de quatre heures porte à porte de n'importe quel point du continent."

"housands of bus stops in Brazil completely lack signage to indicate which buses actually stop there. The nation-wide inconvenience has finally been tackled by one of the biggest community projects in the world."