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Waze

Are Traffic Apps More a Problem Than a Solution?

The companies behind navigation apps say they want to decrease congestion in cities. But a tool that is essentially designed to help individuals isn’t going to provide a collective benefit.

November 19, 2019 - CityLab

City of Bridges

A Mobility Collective for a Unified Transportation System

The collective of micromobility and shared mobility operators is tasked with developing an integrated system that would better serve the diverse needs of travelers.

October 25, 2019 - CityLab

Waze

Waze Wants To Be a Carpooling Matchmaker

The Google-owned company has the data to connect commuters to possible carpool buddies, Whether Waze can stem the long-term decline in carpooling remains to be seen.

July 5, 2019 - City Lab

Lincoln Tunnel

Waze Outfits NYC Tunnels with Beacons for Underground Navigation

The tech is part of a public-private partnership meant to improve connectivity to Waze and other navigation apps from underground.

February 6, 2019 - The Verge

Waze

Waze Launches New Carpooling Feature

A carpooling feature in the Waze app, tested in the San Francisco Bay Area and Israel, will soon be available around the country.

October 15, 2018 - Business Insider

Waze

Roads for Residents Only

Leonia, New Jersey made it illegal for non-residents to drive on 60 public roads in an effort to stop Waze users from cutting through their community.

April 23, 2018 - CityLab

Roundabout

USDOT and Waze Partner to Predict Fatal Crashes

USDOT hopes to put decades of data collection to new use preventing fatal collisions by predicting when they might occur.

February 5, 2018 - Eno Transportation Weekly

Waze

Flooded With Navigation App Users, a Town Closes Its Streets

Navigation apps like Waze often reroute drivers onto residential streets that would be quiet otherwise. With some residents unable to leave their driveways, the New Jersey borough of Leonia has taken an extreme measure against the problem.

January 5, 2018 - The New York Times

Waze

Cities Seeking New Weapons in the Battle Against Waze-Induced Traffic

Los Altos, California has erected a new roadblock in its ongoing effort to keep drivers from cutting through residential neighborhoods, beckoned by the popular navigation app Waze.

June 26, 2017 - Slate

Waze

Israel Plans to Harness the Power of Waze to Save Wildlife

Just in time for United Nations World Wildlife Day, a new initiative in Israel has launched to identify deadly road crossings for animals by harnessing data collected from the Waze app.

February 28, 2017 - The Jerusalem Post

Traffic

Google to Launch Rideshare in Bay Area

The service would operate through Waze, and take a different approach than Uber or Lyft.

September 7, 2016 - Ars Technica

Boston

There's No App for Silver Bullets

Two planning researchers, one a professor at Tufts and another independent, make the case against apps as a panacea for urban problems.

August 16, 2016 - The Boston Globe

Waze

Waze vs. Residential Neighborhoods

Accounts of disgruntled residents responding by any means necessary to the flood of cars beckoned by the whims of navigation apps like Waze are spreading across the country.

June 7, 2016 - The Washington Post

Waze Index Ranks Driver Satisfaction

One of the world's most popular navigation apps, Waze, has aggregated the data generated by 50 million users to develop a "Driver's Satisfaction Index." Perhaps surprisingly, auto-oriented Phoenix, Arizona leads all cities on the index.

October 14, 2015 - Waze

Eliminating the Dangerous 'Waze Left'

Vocal users of the wildly popular navigation app Waze have pushed the company's developers to look for a solution to its routing algorithm's tendency to send drivers turning left through crowded intersections.

September 25, 2015 - The Atlantic

Uber Car

Uber's Stumble Into Urban Design

As companies like Uber, Lyft, and Bridj expand to small scale transit options, they are setting the stage for a new kind of small scale transit oriented development where the new station is the sidewalk.

September 14, 2015 - Mobility Lab

The New L.A. Story: Waze Partners with City; Neighbors Get Upset

A partnership between Waze and the city of Los Angeles has prompted a cry of "not on the street in front of my frontyard!" from residential neighborhoods around the city.

May 5, 2015 - Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Harbor Freeway

Farewell to the Trusty Map Book

From the years roughly spanning the invention of the automobile to the invention of the smartphone, every driver in Los Angeles traveled with a Thomas Bros. map book. Those days are gone, but nostalgia for physical maps remains.

April 13, 2015 - New York Times Magazine

Is the Waze Police-Tracking Feature a Threat to Public Safety?

The popular navigation app Waze includes a feature that rewards users for revealing the location of police officers. A debate over the public safety impacts of that feature is gaining traction, and some police officers want the feature removed.

January 27, 2015 - Fusion

Strava Proposal

The Power of Public-Private Partnerships: Mobile Phone Apps and Municipalities

Private, crowdsourced mobile phone applications addressing urban mobility collect troves of data on how cities flow. So how can municipalities tap into these databases to accurately understand the movement of their citizens?

August 25, 2014 - Ma'ayan Dembo

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