When patience is short and waits are long, squeezing onto the bus becomes a mad, lawless scramble. And that won’t do if your buses have to transport 100,000 passengers a day, like Vancouver’s extremely busy 99 line. So transportation planners got out a camera and some tape—you can watch the results in this transfixing time-lapse video.
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If you’re in the unenviable position of having to traverse the country by bus or train, you better make sure this map is on your phone.
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Oh, bus stop ads: so often a target for vandals and bored commuters. But here’s a clever ad that invites you to deface it. Underneath an unassuming black-and-white ad for a museum exhibition is a whole world of hidden art.
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Houston struggles to save the Astrodome, London vows to make biking safer, L.A. sees light rail successes, and San Francisco mounts a shitty campaign for its sewers. It’s Christmastime in the city for this week’s urban reads.
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Commuters know just how dangerous their travels can be if they find themselves in a bus, subway or train that has stopped functioning properly or there’s an absolute emergency, forcing you to leave through a window. Many forms of public transportation have ways where passengers can simply push out a window, but if those aren’t functioning properly, you’re going to have to break a window or two. That’s where the Hammer in Hand concept comes in. (more…)
Hammer In Hand Allows Straphangers To Break Windows With Ease original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Don’t you just love the kind of freedom associated with concepts when they are thought up of without any of the restrictions of the real world? Want to make a concept of a smartphone? That’s easy, assuming you are using some sort of arc reactor equivalent technology that means your smartphone need not be charged throughout its entire lifetime. Well, a certain Tad Orlowski has come up with the Willie bus concept that he hopes will be able to change city landscapes in the future.
And how will a humble bus be able to do that, you ask? Simple – the bus itself will feature a frame that is specially contorted into a slew of shapes, allowing it to create “an impression of restless energy attempting to cut through the unblemished surface of the glass.” The glass happens to be a screen in this case, and it will be able to also be used to show off digital advertisements that can then be rotated and updated, depending on a frequency of the bus company’s preference. Of course, it does not seem as though the Willie bus is going to enter production anytime soon, but to have it light up a city? That’s a winner in our books for sure.
Willie Bus Concept Might Change City’s Landscape In The Future original content from Ubergizmo. 
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We’ve seen Chinese space capsule hotels which includes your own robot butler, but driving there in a regular vehicle is something that will probably take you out of the entire experience. Thankfully, Japan has come along with their own space bus that looks like you’ve stepped into a futuristic spacecraft. (more…)
Japanese Space Buses Go To Infinity And Beyond original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Wireless charging might seem perfectly suited for smartphones and tablets, but the city of Gumi, South Korea is putting the tech to use with something a little larger: buses. A pair of Online Electric Vehicle (OLEV) motorcoaches, which recharge by driving over specially-equipped asphalt, are now running a public transportation route in the city, and it’s said to be the first network of its kind open for regular use. Rather than stopping periodically to jack in, coils on the coaches’ underside pick up power through an electromagnetic field created by road-embedded wires. Currently, the vehicles have a roundtrip journey of 24km (roughly 15 miles) when completing their stops.
Since the system operates so long as 5 to 15 percent of the path is electrified, there’s no need to rely on a completely rigged-up highway. What’s more, the solution is only triggered by passing OLEVs, which means that normal cars can share the same street. If this all sounds familiar, that’s because the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has been hammering away at the technology for several years. Now that it’s made it this far, the city has plans to add ten more buses to its fleet by 2015.
Filed under: Transportation
Via: ExtremeTech
Source: PhysOrg
San Francisco, being one of the more cosmopolitan cities around the world, has played host to its fair share of events and product launches in the past, is about to embark on something new yet again which is part of the excitement of this great and wonderful city. I am referring to this particular map that depicts the current position of San Francisco buses pulled from data at bus stops, and the end result might very well be something that totally mesmerizes you. For those who are not in the know, if you have given public transport in San Francisco a chance before, you would definitely know it is charming in its very own way, accompanied by its fair share of quirks. Hence, to know just exactly where your bus is at that point in time is ideal since it would allow you to plan your journey to the bus stop better. This is where SFLiveBus comes in handy, as it will keep tabs of the SF Muni system that plies routes around the city.
Do bear in mind that all location data displayed are sourced from stops as mentioned above, so do not confuse that with real time movement. This means there is a slight degree of inaccuracy, but it sure as heck is going to be a whole lot more accurate than ever before!
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: NASA Finds 3 New Planets In Habitable Zone, LinkedIn iPhone And Android App Updated With New UI, 
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