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"As part of our Future of Travel report, PSFK has been exploring the ways in which technology is innovating the air travel experience, and transforming our current notions of what air travel can be. One way in which the experience has been innovating is with new forms of health and wellness being integrated into the experience. Rather than feeling tired and cranky after a trip, new products and services are ensuring that travelers arrive feeling refreshed and ready to explore their destination. "

"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."

"Hipmunk is a travel website that lets you sort out your travel tickets by « agony » (price + number of stops + duration) "

"In some ways, the teleportation test has produced as many questions as it has answers. A big one: If people do like to travel for its own sake, can that desire be channeled into active transport modes that maintain urban sustainability? And is it fully possible to disentangle the utility of travel from the enjoyment we might derive? After all, just because you have to go to work every morning doesn't mean the commute trip isn't fulfilling some basic need to move for movement's sake. "It comes back, in a way, to teleportation," she says. "Starting from the standpoint of: Would you want to never ever travel again by any mode-never step foot out of your house, basically? I think almost everybody would say 'no' to that.""

It's a tradition that harks back to the late 1800s in the U.S., until it was diminished by the Great Depression and replaced by air travel, virtually disappearing for a while after the 1950s. It wasn't until the creation of Amtrak in 1971 and a selloff of old cars by railroad companies that private rail started up again. The restored private railcars that travel today tend to be luxuriously decorated mini-mansions, with multiple bedrooms, private chefs, domed glass ceilings and observation decks. Many are owned by ordinary train enthusiasts, who run charter trips to help defray costs.

"On safety alone, for an individual traveller per kilometre travelled, the car is 25 times less safe than rail. Cycling is 403 times, walking is 456 times, and travelling by motorcycle is 1,620 times less safe. "

"During the height of segregation and Jim Crow, many African Americans owned copies of the "Negro Motorist Green Book," a guide that informed travelers of the safest places to eat, sleep or get a haircut when on the open road. The book was first published in 1936 by a Harlem postal worker, and it continued to be released in updated and expanded editions until the mid-1960s and the passage of the Civil Rights Act."

"Traveling across the country by private rail takes a lot of planning, requiring connections to various trains and layovers. But Mr. Webb, 35, says he and his 10-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter prefer it to their family's second home in the Adirondacks because every day they wake up somewhere different."

"Kiev-based photography collective UUA (Urban Underground Athletes) are intent on proving that the country is about much more than strife - that it is also a place of rivers, mountains, forests and breathtaking landscapes full of the potential for adventure. Cycling in Ukraine is far from popular as a way of getting around or commuting. Its rarity makes for a close-knit community of enthusiasts. UUA was originally founded in Kiev in 2011 as a cycle courier company, but the collective's pursuits have expanded in line with the interests of its members - Lesha Berezovskiy, Vladislav Andrievsky and Anatolii Todorov - who share a passion for photography as well as cycling. By 2014, says Andrievsky, "UUA had became something bigger. We started hanging out, doing graffiti and printing T-shirts." With Ukraine riven by civil unrest, cycling also became a way for the group to see the country on their own terms. "In July 2014 I had to move to Kiev because of military unrest in eastern Ukraine. I met Anatolii and Vladislav and we started going on cycling trips together. We travelled to the Carpathian mountains and started photographing everything together.""

"The small town, modestly lost in the mountain vastness of Georgia, impressed the imagination of the traveler, photographer and founder of TEG Bureau - Pavel Makarov, that he spent a few days there, riding on the city's main attractions - the cableway. Chiatura - town of miners, located on two sides of the canyon, which contains dozens of active and broken funiculars, built in the 1950s"

""Basically, Pokémon Go has a virtual world with a geography that parallels the geography of the real world," PatentYogi explained. "The patents reveal that Niantec has also developed a virtual transport system in this virtual world. Pokémons use this virtual transport system to travel within the virtual world. So the game has virtual aircrafts, virtual trains, virtual buses etc. to transport Pokémons all around the world. The cool thing is that this virtual transport system in the game also mirrors the real world transport system. Therefore, for a real world city bus, there is a corresponding virtual bus in the game.""

"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."

"That may have represented a pivotal moment in the long American romance with the automobile: In 2006, the nation had an average of .786 cars per person and 2.050 per household. Vehicle miles traveled peaked in 2004, with 9,314 miles per person and 24,349 miles per person. America had hit Peak Car. After 2006, car ownership and vehicle miles began declining. But the latest installment of this research, conducted by Michael Sivak, who heads the University of Michigan's Sustainable Worldwide Transportation research consortium-shows a hint of a rebound. In 2015, vehicle ownership rates ticked up 1.4 percent on average from 2012. Car ownership went from .744 per person in 2012 to .756 per person in 2015 and from 1.27 per household in 2013 to 1.95 per household in 2015. Distance-driven rates on average increased 2.1 percent, from 8,461 miles per person and 21,866 miles per household in 2012 to 8,648 miles per person and 22,311 miles per household."

"New York's Bushwick neighborhood might seem bike-saturated enough to many pedestrians and motorists, to say nothing of the popularity of the various bikeshare services around the world. However, those with their own bikes will agree that, while simpler than cars, biking has its own contingencies caused by weather, mechanical problems and human needs. That's where BikeStock steps in, offering essentials like locks, tubes, tools, seasonal items, ponchos, patch kits, food and drink to weary travelers."

""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."

""In lay language, the [traffic lights] act as a team of players cooperating to win a game - much like players in a soccer match, where each player endeavors to score, but at the same time considers the ultimate goal of the entire team which is winning the match," El-Tantawy said in a University of Toronto press release, according to Yahoo! Canada News. In Toronto, the effect of El-Tantawy's lights on just 60 city intersections reduced traffic by about 40 percent and cut down on travel times by just over a quarter. It's unclear what the effects were in Cairo."

"How do we provide inner-city youth with valuable experiences that nurture individual creativity and resourcefulness, develop life skills, and enable them to expand their horizons through travel and service? Skateboarding, in the truest sense, provides kids with freedom-the freedom to take control of their lives, their bodies, the world around them, and their futures. Since 2007, the Harold Hunter Foundation, a nonprofit, grassroots, skateboard community-based organization, has provided a network of support, resources, and advocacy for New York City's skateboarders. We provide school and community-based programs that are specifically and creatively tailored to meet the needs of-and act as a positive catalyst in the difficult lives of-low-income skateboarding youth. "

"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."

"Vous ne savez pas où partir cet été? Google le sait et profite de cette période pré-estivale pour lancer une nouvelle fonctionnalité sur son comparateur de vols maison, Google Flight Search.  Lancé depuis un peu plus d'un an en France, ce service, qui permet d'organiser ses voyages en recherchant les meilleurs vols, aux meilleurs prix, sur une interface simple et efficace dont Google a le secret, devrait en effet se doter dans les prochains jours du fameux bouton «j'ai de la chance», annonce le blog officiel Google Travel. En cliquant dessus, l'internaute se verra proposer des destinations aléatoires -de la même manière que le moteur de recherche vous propulse sur un site de son choix quand vous activez cette fonctionnalité. «Vous pouvez ajouter des limites de prix ou de temps et appuyer sur le bouton autant de fois que vous le souhaitez -nous continuerons à vous suggérer des destinations susceptibles de vous plaire», poursuit Google sur son blog, qui promet également d'agrandir la carte déjà disponible sur Google Flight Search."

""Right now, many of us suffer through long, traffic-plagued commutes to and from work, the airport, or client meetings. It's just dead-time when you aren't doing much," Sande Golgart, West regional vice president at Regus, told Fast Company. "If the XchangE helps people get their work completed or their deal struck while they're traveling from one place to another, then that's less work they have to take home with them.""