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Hate traffic? What about those never-ending gas bills? If so, than maybe its time to swap your hot rod for a bus pass or subway ticket! PF members offer ideas about swapping gas guzzles for public transportation alternatives. Have an idea in Public Transportation? Tell us

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The Electrotrak Vehicle Charging and Powering System

delbert secrest

Electrotrak is a network of extruded tracks that would be installed initially on the left side of HOV lanes. It would ... more ...

Climate Leadership Awards, Electric Cars, EPA P3, Public Transportation, Smart Cities, Transportation

SpaceCube composite container

One of the largest modes of transporting goods has been steel shipping containers. They have a dead weight that must be ... more ...

Adaptation, Business, Clean Tech, Economics, Efficiency, Engineering, Planet Forward News, Public Transportation, Transportation

Mayor Vincent Gray Says D.C. Will Be Fossil Free by 2030

Jordan Petitt

Vincent Gray, mayor of Washington, D.C., attended the GW Moving the Planet Forward Innovation Summit at The George ... more ...

Green Building, Green Cities, Green Living, Public Transportation, Smart Cities

Living Green Expo

Minnesota 2020

The Living Green Expo seeks to turn values into actions to achieve the highest quality natural environment for ... more ...

Electric Cars, Green Living, GreenGov, Policy, Public Transportation

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Reducing Energy Usage by 19% in Four Years

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Illinois' students approved a student green fee, which enabled them to achieve $12 million in energy savings, decrease ... more ...

Biking, Campus Sustainability, Climate Leadership Awards, Colleges and Universities, Education, Green Building, Green Living, Public Transportation, Solar, Solar Decathlon, Transportation, Water

Austin Community College: Go Green! One Dollar at a time

Austin Community College is a commuter college that focuses helping their students reduce the impact of their ... more ...

Campus Sustainability, Climate Change, Climate Leadership Awards, Electric Cars, Green Communities, Policy, Public Transportation, Transportation

Glendale Community College: A Culture of Sustainability

Glendale Community College, AZ

Glendale Community College has been invested in sustainability since 2004, and now features over 30 on-campus "Green ... more ...

Campus Sustainability, Climate Leadership Awards, Education, Efficiency, Green Communities, Policy, Public Transportation

Improving Local Transit Policies in California

Stuart Cohen of TransForm thinks California can improve transit with some simple policy solutions, like giving buses ... more ...

Climate Change, Green Communities, Green Living, Public Transportation, Transportation

Personal Rapid Transit System: A Solution for Cities

meredith fuller

Dr. Waheed Uddin is a professor at the University of Mississippi and an expert in civil engineering. He, along with his ... more ...

Public Transportation, Transportation

A Cross-Country Rail Trip

Pretty simple idea and not a new one, but imagine hopping on a train at a train station located at the intersection of ... more ...

Climate Change, Efficiency, Engineering, Green Communities, Green Living, Policy, Public Transportation, Transportation

Rethinking the Carpool

Here’s a scenario. You’re on a 500+ mile road trip with your family. All of a sudden you’re feeling ... more ...

Efficiency, Public Transportation, Transportation

Design for Active Living

American Society of Landscape Architects

Do you drive to work? Ride a bike? Take the train? Walk? From the American Society of Landscape Architects sustainable ... more ...

Adaptation, Architecture, Business, Climate Change, Economics, Efficiency, Engineering, Green Building, Green Communities, Green Living, Health, Policy, Public Transportation, Transportation

Uniting The World’s Smart Communities For A Sustainability Revolution

Woodrow W. Clark II, PhD

Dr. Woodrow Clark II, a long-time advocate for the environment and renewable energy, is an internationally recognized ... more ...

Adaptation, Health, Policy, Public Transportation, Renewable Energy, Transportation

ASLA Designs Infrastructure for All

American Society of Landscape Architects

Watch an animation that explains how to transform transportation systems into multiuse infrastructure that serves ... more ...

Adaptation, Architecture, Green Communities, Public Transportation, Transportation

Sustainable Transport in Oxford, Miss.

This video looks at the sustainability issues that the city of Oxford, Miss., Pathway’s Commission are trying to ... more ...

Activism, Adaptation, Biking, Clean Tech, Education, Efficiency, Electric Cars, Green Communities, Green Living, GreenGov, Policy, Public Transportation, Science, Transportation

Want Sustainable Local Transit? Look to Disney’s EPCOT Center

Michael Mac Millan

The experience of Walt Disney in his first venture in California taught him that only through a well-planned, efficient ... more ...

Public Transportation, Transportation

Smart Mass Transit Provides Zero Carbon Footprint

See this Amazing invention by SMT Rail of Silicon Valley
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Clean Tech, Public Transportation, Solar, Transportation

Transforming the Public Transportation Experience to Encourage Usage.

I want to improve the experience on public transportation vehicles, while appealing to people who don’t usually ... more ...

Activism, Engineering, Hydroelectric, Public Transportation, Science, Transportation

Oxford University Transit System Promotes Bus Usage

Erin Parsons and Lexi Combs

The bus system is making riding easier by installing solar powered GPS systems that inform riders of where their buses ... more ...

Green Communities, Policy, Public Transportation, Transportation

Reform Transporation Laws to Encourage Fuel Conservation

Why is that, in politics, no-brainers are usually non-starters. (1) Lowering the interstate speed limit to 55 mph (and ... more ...

Efficiency, Policy, Public Transportation, Transportation

Commuting in a Sustainable Way

Planet Forward

By Chip Hennessy (presenter),Charlie Brennan, Emma Folkman, and Ben Roos For a graduate level course on urban ... more ...

Clean Tech, Public Transportation, Transportation

I would like to institute a free bike share program for George Washington University students and faculty.

Biking, Green Living, Public Transportation, Transportation

DC SmarTrip: Rent a Bike, Ride the Metro, and Catch a Bus with ONE Card!

World Resources Institute

In 2008, Clear Channel Outdoor and the District Department of Transportation launched SmartBike DC, the first ... more ...

Activism, Biking, Clean Tech, Green Communities, Green Living, Public Transportation, Transportation

Cities in Focus: Istanbul

World Resources Institute

Istanbul has the only intercontinental bus rapid-transit system in the world. With 64 million vehicles crossing it in ... more ...

Activism, Green Communities, Green Living, Policy, Public Transportation, Transportation

Making Public Transportation Cool: Los Angeles Metro

World Resources Institute

This video is produced by EMBARQ – The World Resources Institute Center for Sustainable Transport. Los Angeles’ ... more ...

Green Living, Policy, Public Transportation, Transportation

Oxford-University Transit

Patrick Smith

Recent changes in one of Oxford’s public transportation systems could help keep it running for years to come. The ... more ...

Efficiency, Green Communities, Public Transportation, Transportation

A Call To Reform-Global Mass Transit

Planet Forward Archive

A look at transportation and pollution in Guadalajara, Mexico. From George Washington University student Simon Hernandez.
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Public Transportation, Transportation

Beyond the Car

Leslie Stonebraker

Car and truck usage is responsible for about one-third of the United State’s total carbon dioxide emissions. Since ... more ...

Green Living, Public Transportation, Transportation

Transportation Planning Done Right in DC

Planet Forward Archive

From the Policy Greenhouse at The George Washington University on July 10, 2009
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Public Transportation, Transportation

Strength in Numbers for Green Economy

Kate Galliers

By: Kate Galliers A pertinent exchange took place Friday morning in the Ronald Reagan International Building, just two ... more ...

Clean Tech, Green Living, Policy, Public Transportation, Transportation

Commuter Rail

Michael Scully

New Bedford, Mass., is the only city in a 60-mile radius of Boston that isn’t networked into the commuter rail ... more ...

Public Transportation, Transportation

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Green Public Transit

Cities all across the US, and even across the world, have submitted some of their ideas to us at Planet Forward on how they are reducing pollution through public transit. From bike shares to busses these cities have it covered!