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Diversifying Gender Roles in Transportation
The transportation sector struggles to grow and advance without diverse outreach efforts to attract talented individuals. Diverse outreach efforts are very important to attract diverse groups as they increase creativity and innovation to solve diverse and unique problems. With an increase in equity and inclusiveness concerns in the current [...]
NJ Bike/Ped News Feed January 16, 2020 – February 5, 2020
Our regularly posted News Feed provides you with convenient links on the latest news in the bicycle and pedestrian world. Check below for New Jersey headlines, crash reports, and the latest from around the county and the world. NJ Bike/Ped Headlines Paramus adding dedicated bike lanes on Midland [...]
H.S. Students Design 3D Crosswalk to Improve Pedestrian Safety
Three high school freshmen from Kinnelon, New Jersey have designed and implemented a 3D crosswalk in their community as part of a national engineering competition, eCybermission. Dillon Fleksher, George Gillen and Ryan Winters live in a gated community in Kinnelon, New Jersey. The area does not have many sidewalks and [...]
NJ Bike/Ped News Feed December 2, 2019 – January 15, 2020
Our regularly posted News Feed provides you with convenient links on the latest news in the bicycle and pedestrian world. Check below for New Jersey headlines, crash reports, and the latest from around the county and the world. NJ Bike/Ped Headlines New crosswalk will help people in this South Jersey [...]
NJ Bike/Ped News Feed October 28, 2019 – December 2, 2019
Our News Feed provides you with convenient links on the latest news in the bicycle and pedestrian world. NJ Bike/Ped Headlines New Jersey ‘Street Smart’ program changing pedestrian-vehicle behavior October 30, 2019 – traffictechnologytoday.com Dangerous crossings: Pedestrian deaths at 28-year high November 1, 2019 – burlingtoncountytimes.com Citing [...]
Dynamic Streets
Google helped change the world with the inception of their browsing platform, and now, an organization known as Sidewalk Labs (owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet), may be responsible for changing how the world views streets. Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA), an internal firm based in Torino, Italy, is the company credited [...]