What We're Reading
As we gear up for innovation-focused presentations by our Emerging Leaders this morning, we're reflecting on this past week in transportation, from a round-up of our favorite transportation-inspired costumes--these adorable pups with wheels, the new Hudson Yards Station, pizza rat, and this "FleshDirect" set-up in Park Slope--to a look at transportation news:
- Meet the Company Turning NYC Taxis and Buses Into Semi-Autonomous Vehicles
- This Guy Wants Us to Commute in Autonomous, On-Demand Pods
- Google plans drone delivery service for 2017
- East Side Access update: MTA pulverized 350-million-year-old rock under Grand Central Terminal
- A Railroad Safety Technology Was Available Decades Ago
- Madrid's Bold New Pollution Plan: Ban Cars and Make Transit Free
- The Poor Bike, the Rich Bike-Share
- Mapbox Blog: Streets and Gender
Upcoming Rudin events:
- Monday, November 9th: PERIPHERAL PROPOSALS : Models for Commuting from the Margins at the Van Alen Institute
- Thursday, November 12th: "Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars?" with Sam Schwartz
Photo by Timothy Vogel/Flickr.
This week's bonus is a special musical celebration of transit nerdery, "Movin' On" as performed by the band TSUB Analysis, an "Americana/Bluegrass/Indie" group of transit professionals from Denver, CO: