Blog Posts tagged: transportation
Climate Emergency Action Plan: VPSN support
Later this week, Vancouver City Council will be debating an ambitious set of actions aimed at responding to the Climate Emergency. You can see the details in the following report. The VPSN submitted a letter in support of this work,... Continue reading »
Ride-hailing and Autonomous Vehicles: Considerations for Vancouver
On January 17, Vancouver City Council will be receiving a report titled, “Vancouver’s Mobility Future: ‘Automating’ Policy into Sustainable Results.” In this post, we want to highlight some perspectives on the impacts ride-hailing and autonomous vehicles (AV) are expected to... Continue reading »
Metro Vancouver Transportation & Transit Plebiscite Result
Photo by Ted McGrath. Elections BC has announced the results of the Metro Vancouver Transportation and Transit plebiscite, for which voting closed on May 29th. The plebiscite – announced during the last Provincial election – sought support for a half-percent regional... Continue reading »
GET INVOLVED: 2015 QUAD Conference on Transportation
The QUAD Conference is an annual transportation conference held in the Pacific Northwest that provides a forum for transportation professionals to network, exchange ideas, discuss best practices, share research and showcase recent projects. General focus is on land-based transportation, such as... Continue reading »
Transportation Costs: Impacts on Metro Vancouver (Part 5)
Reposted with permission from George Poulos and Price Tags. Part 5 of 5. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] A New Operations-Level Tool for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Transportation Projects Although the unit rates illustrated in Table 1 (in Part... Continue reading »