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Driver less cars are 2x as likely to be in an accident as regular cars
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...ing-a-key-flaw

The UK Wants Nationwide Contactless Travel by 2022

Read More: http://www.citiesofthefuture.eu/the-...ravel-by-2022/

Quote:

Contactless travel could be in place on every bus in Britain by 2022 under a multi-million-pound plan being developed by the country’s five leading bus operators. Stagecoach, First Bus, Go-Ahead, Arriva and National Express are working together to produce a business case which is expected to be completed by late spring 2016.

The scheme, funded predominantly by the private sector, could see new EMV contactless technology installed on every one of the UK’s 32,000-plus buses outside London. It would offer cashless travel for those who want it and capped pay-as-you-go-fares in all urban areas. --- Around 76 million contactless cards are now in issue in the UK – a rise of nearly 40% in the past year. Some £929.8m was spent in the UK in October 2015 alone using a contactless card. Contactless transactions are already accepted on London’s 9,600 buses. Commuters in the capital were responsible for about 1 in 10 of all UK contactless payments in December 2014.

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http://www.citiesofthefuture.eu/wp-c..._k-768x512.jpg

http://lasvegassun.com/news/lvlightrail/
nice link for light rail stuff

Link to pretty awesome map showing all 2,500 rail stations on the main Great Britain rail network together with passenger numbers and how much they have grown since 1997. :)

http://www.bettertransport.org.uk/maps/rail-usage.html

Rail passenger transport usage figures in the EU.

Passenger-kms by quarter (millions), 2012-2014
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statist...km%29_2014.png

Numbers of passengers carried by year (thousands), 2013-2014
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statist...sengers%29.png

Busiest mainline rail stations in Great Britain, year to April 2015, numbers of entries and exits, transfer passengers not included.

http://s10.postimg.org/qu2dmusop/ukrail_2015.png

My home town rail station was 296th of the 2,539 passenger rail stations in use with 1,911,258 entries and exits during the year.

Of those 2,539 stations there were:

3 stations with over 50m entries and exits.
11 from 25-50m
21 from 10m-25m
50 from 5m-10m
140 from 2.5m-5m
324 from 1m-2.5m
325 from 500k-1m
371 from 250k-500k
454 from 100k-250k
250 from 50k-100k
198 from 25k-50k
152 from 10k-25k
78 from 5k-10k
52 from 2.5k-5k
59 from 1k-2.5k
51 stations with fewer than 1,000 passengers in the year.

London dominates the list of busiest stations, with 46 of the 85 stations with over 5m annual entries and exits being in the capital.

The top 30 stations outside London were:

1. Birmingham New Street 35.31m
2. Glasgow Central 28.96m
3. Leeds 28.85m
4. Manchester Piccadilly 24.61m
5. Edinburgh 21.11m
6. Gatwick Airport 17.49m
7. Brighton 17.17m
8. Glasgow Queen Street 16.96m
9. Reading 16.34m
10. Liverpool Central 15.27m
11. Liverpool Lime Street 14.87m
12. Cardiff Central 11.94m
13. Cambridge 10.42m
14. Bristol Temple Meads 10.10m
15. Sheffield 9.11m
16. Romford 8.95m
17. York 8.59m
18. Chelmsford 8.38m
19. Guildford 8.09m
20. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 8.05m
21. Ilford 8.02m
22. Woking 7.96m
23. Manchester Oxford Road 7.60m
24. St. Albans City 7.47m
25. Manchester Victoria 7.28m
26. Watford Junction 6.88m
27. Nottingham 6.85m
28. Milton Keynes Central 6.65m
29. Oxford 6.62m
30. Birmingham Moor Street 6.52m

i thought vancouver had elevated rail not subway. both work the same

It is a subway that just uses a different technology.......it's completely grade separated.
The trains are different but it's every much the same as other elevated transit like Chicago's "L".

Vancouvers Canada line is subway, The rest of it is skytrain

The Canada Line in Vancouver proper, the downtown portion of the Expo/Millennium Line, and a portion of the future Millennium/Evergreen line go underground. Most of the rest of it is elevated (a few portions are at-grade, or below grade but uncovered). Aside from the fact that it isn't fully underground, though, it essentially is the same thing as a subway.

It's rapid transit. That's what counts.

having trains going down the middle of roads like a bunch of light rail here in the us is not that good. cars get stopped on the tracks and getting out of the middle of the road, having to wait for cars. we need to build new cities to have good light rail. have not as many cars and train stops easy to get to. elevated rail and subways are nice because you dont need drivers.

Except for having slightly different trains, the average person would just think the SkyTrain is elevated Metro like the "L" or Miami Metrorail. The Canada Line is mostly underground and uses standard Metro cars but it has much lower capacity than nearly every other system in the world due to very small stations of just 40 meters.

The Future of Paris Water Transit Might Be Driverless 'SeaBubbles'

Read More: http://www.citylab.com/tech/2016/02/...optere/463182/

Quote:

Could miniature high-speed catamarans on urban waterways be the future of city transit? The answer to that question might seem to be a very obvious no. But a new plan for Paris has nonetheless pushed such an improbable mobility option closer to becoming a reality.

- The SeaBubble is the latest vehicle design from French inventor and yachtsman Alain Thébault, who’s also co-creator of the world’s fastest sailing boat. A four-person hydrofoil that looks like a Smart car on stilts or a Fiat 500 crossed with an ape, the SeaBubble would ply its trade on the Seine (making its current name somewhat inappropriate). Initially the craft would come with a driver, but the SeaBubble could ultimately be made autonomous, running fixed routes along the river without the need for any human intervention.

- This new form of urban transit may come across as unlikely simply because it sounds like much too much fun to be true. But according Le Figaro, it’s no mere pipe dream. Last November, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo wrote to Thébault’s company, Hydroptere, expressing a clear interest in being the first test site for what she called “the flying bubbles.” A prototype craft should be ready this summer and full production could begin in 2017, with a unit price currently estimated at €12,000. A Paris in which people get around on the water in zippy little aquatic pods has just got a little closer.

- The Sea Bubbles wouldn’t just be fun. Powered by batteries partially recharged by solar panels, they would be designed to produce no carbon emissions. By running on foils, the craft would also cause less splash and erosion on the river’s banks than more conventional boats. The catamaran pods form part of an inventive wave that looks to develop public transit with more autonomous vehicles—smaller and more flexible in their potential routes than regular buses.

- Within Paris, it could only go up and down the river. It would probably require the adaptation of existing pontoons and wouldn’t necessarily link up to other forms of transit. But as a pleasure and tourist craft, ferrying passengers between, say, Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower, it would surely be a hit. The intimacy and seclusion of the craft might likewise attract local users who are deterred by the tourist crowds on the city’s Batobus water buses. If we all squint, we might possibly be looking at a future where automatic pods like these are to waterfront and riverside cities what gondolas have long been to Venice.

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https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/m.../7fc7c4625.jpg

Holy crap that København fare is like $4.75! Is that some special zone fare or is that really the norm? That's nuts. No wonder so many bike!

BART fares are high, which is why it has the highest fare recovery ratio of any metro rail system in the US. Fares are determined by distance, and the highest station-to-station fare (Pittsburgh/Bay Point to San Francisco International Airport) is $12.05, one way.

I'm not sure how "average fare" is determined for that chart, but BART's is almost surely higher than most. A trip from Rockridge Station (an Oakland streetcar-suburban neighborhood) to Montgomery Street Station (the Financial District) is $3.85 one way.

**Edit: the most expensive one-way BART fare is between San Francisco International and Oakland International airports--$15.70 one way.

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