Will New Technology Make High-Speed Rail Obsolete?
Do new technologies undermine the case for fast trains?
Ode to the Shanghai Metro - Phoebe Lemon
Wayfinding has many applications, and arguably the most important one is public transportation systems. Granted, there are many different ways to design such a system, and the politics and culture of the environment in which it will be integrated certainly plays a large role. Interestingly, often when we discuss transportation systems on the global scale, individuals are so quick to praise New York or London’s metro systems, Europe’s “high speed” rail system, or how “Uber is the most original new technology cities have seen”. All of these statements are subjective, but somehow they’ve become accepted fact, especially in the West, and I argue that anyone who gives European/American public transport that much praise is blissfully living in a bubble. As an international student who grew up in America and has visited most of its major cities, lived in China for two years, and is now studying in the Middle East, I’ve had the opportunity to use almost every public transportation system to exist. Old fashion taxis, the Maglev, high speed trains, shared bikes, shared mopeds, carpools, the bus, the metro, I have used them all, but nothing quite compares to the way China does public transport.
Designing a wayfinding concept for Vancouver's Skytrain system.
I wasn’t always a big fan of public transport.
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Plan the Geary metro right, right now
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Virtual Assistant Controlled HO Scale Model Railroad - Stephan Lamb Associates
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Play Your Tubes Right
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How we lost the living Now
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Pioneers, Settlers and Town Planners
The rants and raves of Simon Wardley on Evolution, Technology, Economics and Business
Transit System Route Map, 1979
Transportation Map of Atlanta Showing Street Car Trackless Trolley and Bus Lines of the Georgia Power Company, circa 1950s
New Rail Alphabet
New Rail Alphabet is a revival of the British Rail alphabet designed by Margaret Calvert of Kinneir Calvert Associates in the early Sixties. Originally…
Penn Station redesign can increase volume of train traffic by one-third: feds
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