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"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. "

"Hire more cleaners to sanitize vehicles and stations frequently. Alex Garcia, an American urbanist researcher living in Taipei, told us that in the event of an outbreak, that city plans to disinfect all of its stations daily, the equipment that passengers touch every four hours, and trains every two hours if there is even a suspected case traveling by train. Seoul also uses drones to sprinkle disinfectant on hard-to-reach elevated places. Use noninvasive handheld or infrared thermometers to scan all passengers' temperature - a technique that is very common outside stores and offices in Asian cities and is now being employed to screen transit users in Taipei. Provide front-line workers with masks, gloves, and other protective equipment, especially those tasked with cleaning the system. New York City Transit cleaners have had to work without any PPE, which may have contributed to the elevated death rates among them. Require all passengers to cover their faces, and clearly communicate what is and is not allowed. Reusable cloth masks should be acceptable. Engage in small-scale capital projects to reduce infection spread, such as coating metal poles on trains with copper, which renders viruses inactive. (One Taipei-based food chain has so coated its doorknobs.) For the fast-growing number of operators who have been exposed to the virus already, ensure that they have the job protections and medical care that they require."

"The majority of the people who use public transit in the United States are women. They account for 55 percent of overall ridership across the country, according to a 2007 survey from the American Public Transportation Association. In some places, the proportion of women riders is even higher. Jim Saksa, transportation reporter for the website PlanPhilly, has crunched some numbers and found that Philadelphia leads the nation in this department: according to a recent survey by SEPTA, the city's transportation agency, a remarkable 64 percent of the people riding Philly's subways and buses are women. Chicago was second in his accounting, with a 62 percent female ridership on the MTA, while Washington, D.C., New York, and Boston all came in at 60 percent."

"The biggest football event of the year is coming to NYC next year, so the Metropolitan Transit Authority thought it would be beneficial to release a regional transit map that covers all the rail lines between New York and New Jersey. The MTA calls this the "first mass transit Super Bowl," because it is truly a comprehensive map."

"Lagos - the largest city and commercial capital of Nigeria - has traditionally struggled with a lack of reliable mass transit systems and severe traffic congestion. The average Lagos commuter spends over three hours in traffic every day. More recently, however, the city has made strides to improve mass transit options. In 2008, Lagos introduced Africa's first bus rapid transit (BRT) system modeled on its South American counterparts in cities like Curitiba, Bogotá, and Santiago. Lagos is also pursuing sustainable transport options such as light rail, ferry, and cable car. These transport options are part of the city's efforts to reduce its environmental impact and improve climate resilience. While Lagos still has significant room to improve mobility, its multimodal approach to transport investments holds great promise for the city's commuters."

"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."

"Tōhoku line train arrives at exactly 8:01, stopping on exactly the corresponding lines, and in seemingly orderly chaos, people stream out of the train and sequentially those standing in line on the platform stream in. Not a sound exists inside the car, except for the pitter-patter shuffling of feet, the quiet "shoop" of the closing doors - only to be interrupted by the trains automatic announcer "次は 大森です。" ("tsugi wa Oomori desu"/"Next is Ōmori") It's after this minute of so-called orderly chaos that I realize (while being squashed between my friends and salarymen) that the entirety of Japan's modern economic and social status rests in its expansive and labyrinth-like transit system, scouring through the cities and countries as arteries on the human body. In the tradition of the samurais of yesterday, Japan's modern blood is forged in steel."

These days, mass transit users are turning to their cell phone as a source of entertainment or a way to continue working while journeying from one place to another.  And they are doing so to an extent that makes them stand out above the general adult population as users of just about every function a cell phone can offer.

"La désynchronisation des rythmes de vie et de travail, le développement des pratiques nomades induisent de nouvelles habitudes de consommation en dehors de lieux dédiés à cet usage. En créant les premiers centres commerciaux de gare en France, Altarea Cogedim imagine et réalise une offre nouvelle et adaptée sur des lieux de transit. Le projet Cœur d'Orly au pied de l'aéroport d'Orly. "

"C'est simple, c'est clair et on comprend que les points d'entrée dans le réseau de mobilité de demain vont se multiplier et prendre des formes radicalement inédites. C'est la traduction spatiale de la remarque d'Alessandro Baricco dans "Les Barbares - Essai sur une mutation" : « D'habitude on se bat pour contrôler des points stratégiques sur la carte. Aujourd'hui, les agresseurs font quelque chose de plus radical : ils sont en train de redessiner la carte ». Pour tous les acteurs urbains et les acteurs de la mobilité, cela va poser beaucoup de questions, dont deux toutes simples :  - c'est quoi demain un lieu de transit ?  - c'est quoi demain un lieu stratégique ?"

"Le Forum Vies Mobiles a souhaité explorer les possibilités d'une sortie de l'automobile en Ile-de-France selon deux hypothèses plus ou moins radicale : L'hypothèse d'une sortie de l'Anthropocène 3 en rupture avec nos modes de vies actuels sera appliquée à l'Ile-de-France par l'institut Momentum dans le projet Biorégion Ile-de-France. L'hypothèse d'une transition vers des modes de vie moins dépendants à l'usage individuel de la voiture sera explorée par les chercheurs du laboratoire Gégographie-cités pendant 2 ans dans le cadre du projet Post-Car Ile-de-France . Pour mener à bien ce dernier, le laboratoire Géographie-Cités a composé une équipe réunissant des compétences pluridisciplinaires d'aménagement-urbanisme (Jean Debrie, Juliette Maulat), de géographie urbaine (Sandrine Berroir) et de modélisation en géographie (Arnaud Banos, Hadrien Commenges). Au cours du projet, les chercheurs seront accompagnés par les étudiants des ateliers de professionnalisation des masters Aménagement-Urbanisme (Paris 1) et Carthagéo (Paris 1, Paris 7, ENSG 4 ). Partant du constat que la place de la voiture en Ile-de-France est aujourd'hui problématique, il s'agira d'explorer une transition vers des modes de vie moins dépendants à l'usage individuelle de la voiture tout en répondant aux aspirations des franciliens pour le futur."

"Frequent Network Maps show us the arteries of the city: how we can get from one point to another reliably and quickly. But here's something that a Frequent Network Map doesn't deal with: that the urban network is constantly in flux." Réflexion à pousser sur la notion de "carte vivante" et de pouls de la ville.

"1° le marché du sandwich qui progresse de + 10% l'an ( 9,6 milliards de francs de CA en 1999 ). Il se vend tous les jours un million et demi de sandwichs en France. Tout le monde veut profiter de cette croissance du marché du sandwich. Les moyennes surfaces de type Monoprix& Prisunic ont développé des linéaires entiers de produit à consommer immédiatement, suivant en cela ce que faisait depuis longtemps une enseigne comme Mark's and Spencer. Et les grandes surfaces suivent le mouvement dans toute l'Europe, en développant les rayons traiteurs et plats préparés, marché qui a crû de + 20% en 2001. Aux Etats-Unis, on parle de "home meal replacement" pour définir cette nouvelle offre qui fait une concurrence directe aux restaurants. 2° la distribution automatique: + 10% l'an, elle aussi ( 7,9 milliards de francs de CA en 2000 ). Déjà 40 % des français la pratiquent sur leurs lieux de passage et 31 % à leur lieu de travail et, un récent sondage révélait qu'une nette majorité en voulait davantage. Il faut dire que sur ce créneau, la France compte un certain retard, puisque l'on ne compte que 17 machines pour 1 000 habitants, contre 30 pour 1 000 habitants au Japon. Plus perfectionnées et intelligentes, les nouvelles générations de machines proposent aussi bien des salades que des plats préparés chauds, comme du cassoulet, du poulet au curry ou des pizzas, le tout avec couverts et serviette. 3° Les produits de snacking ( plus de 5% des nouveaux produits lancés chaque année sur le marché français sont consacrés aux nouvelles formes de grignotages ). Du yaourt « Zap » de Yoplait au « Pack » de McDonald's, en passant par la bouteille de Vittel dotée d'un bouchon "sport", les nouveaux sachets sticks de Nescafé ou la charcuterie prédécoupée en sachets individuels , les industriels multiplient les versions nomades de leurs produits. Début 1999, la marque Justin Bridou a ainsi lancé une nouveau saucisson prédécoupé avec le slogan p

"Cities around the world are evolving and, as a result, urban mobility has become an ecosystem of connected modes of transportation. Moving around in cities, we travel in different ways, including walking, biking, riding public transit, and using cars. With the rise of new technologies and the on-demand economy, providing us access to whatever we want, whenever we want, transportation is no longer just a question of options, but of convenience and ease of use. With transportation on the edge of disruption, Daimler, the company that invented the automobile in 1886 and owns Mercedes-Benz, founded moovel to reinvent the concept of urban mobility. At moovel, we aim to discover how new technologies will affect the way we move tomorrow and connect the ever-changing state of urban transportation. moovel offers new ways to connect the urban mobility ecosystem with our three complementary products: moovel app, moovel transit and RideTap."

"This level of specificity - showing how far away each mode is and when it next arrives - reduces wait times for TransitScreen users. (Little surprise that Caywood, a neuroscientist by training, would address transit's frustrating psychological element.) It also makes people aware of options they might not know about or have otherwise considered. "We're not trying to be a general mobile app for everything, wherever you are," says Caywood. "We focus on providing a really high-quality experience, and a really understandable portrait of the transit options at your site.""

"Only this time his offer was different: "Why don't you just UberX it?" A half hour later I'd registered an Uber account, requested an UberX ride, scored a $20 credit which covered the $13 trip, had an interesting conversation with the driver, and met my friend 5 miles away in Silver Lake. The same journey by bus would have taken over an hour, required a transfer, and involved two miles of walking. For this specific trip, the transit option was woefully inadequate, and without UberX I would have foregone the trip. Did travel in Los Angeles - nay, in any American city - just get ridiculously easy? Over the course of three days, UberX enabled me to conquer L.A. on my own terms without reverting to a childlike dependency on someone with a license. UberX isn't free; it's still more expensive than transit. But it's a lifeline in a city that offers few reliable alternatives to car ownership. And if history is any guide, I think it's here to stay."

"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."

"Welcome to the latest installation of "Public Access," where CityLab shares its favorite videos-old and new, serious and nutty-that tell a story about place. In 1982, Milan's transit authority wanted to show off its young and expanding Metro system. The 30-minute-long In Metrò, made by ATM (Azienda Transporti Milanese), shows the budding transit system through the eyes of drivers, control center officials, electricians, board members, and passengers during a nearly 24-hour cycle while Europe's coolest song of 1982-"Da Da Da" by the minimalist German electropop outfit Trio-plays throughout. Metropolitana di Milano opened in 1964, starting with its red-branded Line 1, which was designed by Bob Noorda and Franco Albini along with engineer Franca Helg. The three were awarded the Golden Compass Award, Italy's highest industrial design honor, that same year for the project. Their design principles were used for the green-branded Line 2, which opened five years later."

"Uber veut devenir le "one-stop shop" du transport. De tous les transports. L'application proposera désormais des informations sur les transports publics disponibles à proximité. Lancée à Denver cette semaine, la solution fournira des itinéraires porte à porte et des informations en temps réel. Uber Transit. Pour créer cette fonctionnalité, Uber n'a pas négocié avec chaque autorité de transport l'accès à leurs données. Un partenariat avec l'appli Moovit lui permettra potentiellement d'accéder aux données de 2 700 réseaux de transport dans 88 pays. Smart. Uber Taps Moovit For Its Transit Data"