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I'd like to see what you think of this Slate piece, which argues that the most hated companies tend to be those that don't actually sell what we actually want, but rather are intermediaries we need to get through to get what we actually want, which is pretty much the definition of anything having to do with transportation. That makes them vulnerable to getting blamed, harshly, when things go wrong, but never getting credit when things go right.
A lot of entities need to have a better understanding of human nature. This goes beyond marketing and public relations. The blunt reality is, the facts on the ground just do not matter that much; what matters is understanding the factors that influence the perception of the facts, and how to influence those facts. And what the actual facts actually are is a much smaller factor than we'd often like to admit.
Hating your transit agency won't make it better
The Vancouver metro area has now reached the climax of a frenzy of orchestrated rage directed at its transit agency, TransLink. Over 60% of voters have rejected a sales tax increase for urgently needed transit growth, largely due to an effective campaign that made the transit agency's allege...
She tried to spam me with a forklift! (100 nerd points if you get the reference)
spam of the year: dependable forklifts
One of the more refined forms of spam I receive is the automated guest blogging inquiry, in which a spambot attempts to appear familiar with my blog's topics and sincere in offering useful guest content. The best in at least a year: Hi, Good Morning I read the blog post a transit manager on d...
Apparently they didn't make any measurements of actual real-world cities, otherwise they might have found a saner model for them to present in the game and might have changed people's views on cities and suburbia, including their own.
how sim city greenwashes parking
Here's a shot of an edge city from the new SimCity. Notice what's missing? (Source: BLDGBLOG) From Geoff Manaugh's interview of the new SimCity's designer, Stone Librande: Geoff Manaugh: While you were making those measurements of different real-world cities, did you discover any surprisin...
I've read that there's a limit to how many colors you can put on e.g. a system map and still have them stand out from one another to the human eye, but I think the link I may have gotten that from is dead. But I'm pretty sure the number is somewhere around 10, certainly less than 30.
branding individual routes: too many colors, or the gold standard of legibility?
What might we learn from this bus? (click to enlarge) Inner Link is one of four Auckland bus lines -- all very frequent and designed to be useful for a wide range of trips -- that have buses painted specifically for the purpose. The other three are Outer Link (orange), City Link (red), an...
Proof that "the bus system map doesn't highlight the frequent network" is yet another case of #firstworldproblems. #ohsnap
bus maps for developing-world cities
Need to get around Dhaka, Bangladesh by transit? It's possible, but you have to know what the buses do. As in many developing-world cities, transit information is almost nonexistent -- to the point that when a startup decided to draw a transit map of Dhaka, the only way to figure out what each...
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