Bus Routes
Good Transit Is Simple: Lessons in Good Route Design
Avoid loops, limit deviations, space stops appropriately, and respect layovers.
MARTA Asking Riders For Feedback On Route Redesign
Atlanta's transit agency is asking for public feedback before a major system redesign.
A New Transit Vision for Norfolk
Transit ridership in Norfolk, Virginia, has been lagging, and the city hopes that changes to the bus and rail systems will turn things around.
Arlington Transit Service Cuts on the Table
The county is considering service reductions on two routes with low ridership, but the cuts would significantly affect some neighborhoods.
New Housing Law Empowers Renters Group to Sue Cities that Deny New Construction
The California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund, unlike other renters groups, sees increased housing production as key to bringing down rents. It is enforcing the Housing Accountability Act in cities that arbitrarily deny new construction.
D.C. Bus Ridership is Down. Time for a Redesign?
Bus ridership is down in the nation's capital. Some see the issue as an opportunity to better design the service to make dollars go further.
MTA Proposes Bus System Overhaul for Staten Island
Staten Island is getting what appears to be the biggest trend in transit planning: a bus system makeover.
Freedom and Liberty Through Public Transit?
In PlanPhilly, a discussion on Jarrett Walker's brand of humanities-infused transit planning. The wonky stuff is all well and good, but in the end it's all about simple access and freedom of movement.
Riding the Bus in Portland: An Essay
Blogger and transit consultant Jarrett Walker paints a picture of Portland's Line 75, a workaday bus serving urban neighborhoods outside downtown. His reflections on radial and orbital journeys are worth a read.
Fighting the Urge to Diverge: Straightening Transit Routes
A transit rider and writer has a simple and succinct request for transit planners in Minneapolis: straighten out your transit routes.
Remix Promises to Streamline Transit Planning
Based out of San Francisco, Remix is an intuitive, data-rich tool for transit planners as they consider new routes. All you need to do is draw out the line on a map and add stops.
Cutting Edge Project Uses Cell Phone Data to Plan Bus Routes
Utilizing the largest data release of its kind, researchers at IBM have analyzed the location information from 500,000 cell phones to help optimize the routing of buses in Ivory Coast's largest city of Abidjan.
Dissecting Chicago's Transit Cuts
In a response to reader a question, Ken Davis goes in search of the factors that lead to Chicago Transit Authority decisions about eliminating or adding bus service.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
City of Rosemead
Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
One Hundred Miles
Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY)
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
City of Cambridge
Montrose County
The Pocatello Development Authority
