Topic: Mobility
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The Case for Caution When It Comes to Building Streetcars
There are several reasons to be excited about streetcars — and several others to be skeptical.
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Videos
Aggregating Cell Phone Data in Search of the 'Pulse of the Planet'
Universal mobility patterns we haven't fully understood before could soon come into view.
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Maps
We've Been Looking at the Spread of Global Pandemics All Wrong
Redrawn maps of the world's air-transport network could change the way we track disease from city to city.
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Maps
The Best Maps We've Seen of Sandy's Transit Outage in New York
How transit access changes the perception of distance and accessibility of resources in a city.
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Charts
The Mystery of Our Declining Mobility
Americans moved less than ever between 2005 and 2010 — but no one seems to know why.
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Should Millennials Feel Guilty for Leaving Their Small Towns Behind?
Growing up, I couldn't wait to flee central Indiana. Now I just feel lucky, and terrible.
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Charts
Where High-Growth Company Founders Start Out and Where They End Up
The flow of entrepreneurial talent and which metros are "producing," "exporting," "importing," and "consuming" it.
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A New Law of Intercity Mobility
A group of network researchers proposes a "radiation model" of migration that more accurately predicts patterns of commuting, disease spread, and more.
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An R&D Lab for Transit Tech Tools
Arlington County's Mobility Lab experiments with high-tech ways to help people get over their transit phobias
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Why I Love My City
Stuck, or Content?
What Richard Florida misunderstood about why people spend their lives in places like Ohio
