Some other best practice mobility advocacy groups that stand out to me are city repair (portland), feet first (seattle), london cyclist campaign, especially their support of allied but "separate" borough specific advocacy programs, starkville in motion (mississippi) especially their safe routes to school programs, twin cities (minneapolis-st.Cognitive science learning paul) streets for people, walk boston, and walk denver.

In the UK, the campaign for better transport was created by labor and environmental groups, and conducts rider surveys, develops reports and analysis, provides support to local groups, and advocates for more support for sustainable modes.Cognitive science learning also, in the 1940s a transport user support organization was created by legislation in the 1940s; the organization is now called transport focus and has an active independent customer survey, research, publication, and advocacy program.Cognitive science learning

I don't think arlington county has a sustainable mobility advocacy group per se, but this kind of "advocacy" has been spearheaded by elected officials within policy and practice, and separately, the city created a transportation commission to advise the legislative and executive branches, and because people with a strong advocacy and or technical background have been appointed, it helps the county move practice forward in substantive ways. (arlington does have an environmental advocacy group, which also addresses mobility.)

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One of the problems posed by micro-modes with "small points of contact" to the surfaces on which they travel--for example, the wheels of a bicycle are much larger than the wheels of a standup scooter--is that they are much more vulnerable to defects in the quality of the surface, especially when combined with the faster speed of electrically powered modes like scooters and e-bikes, which reduces the time to act when faced with complications.Cognitive science learning

… given that 55% of riders were injured on the road, and 50% of interviewed riders believed that pavement surface conditions led to their injuries, it would be useful to conduct analysis of road design, quality and maintenance.Cognitive science learning it would be interesting, for example, to analyze the relationship between injury locations and infrastructure for riders, such as bike lanes and other design features.Cognitive science learning A quick visualization of injuries reported in the study overlaid with the city of austin’s own database on “high comfort” bike infrastructure is a starting point.Cognitive science learning most injuries occurred away from protected infrastructure.

Note that I did write about these issues in the entry " pedestrian fatalities and street design" in march, and separately my "signature streets" concept is all about how to position roadway and roadside characteristics for sustainable modes as well as cars, in a manner in which motor vehicle operators are more likely to support the argument.Cognitive science learning

At the tail end of the development process for the western county pedestrian and bicycle access plan, I came up with a concept that I called "signature streets" but with less than 10 days to wrap up the project and plan document, I didn't have the time to develop the concept more thoroughly to be able to "sell" it adequately to the advisory committee.Cognitive science learning

Community health needs assessments required as part of the ACA. Plus, I learned when reading about the potential closure of the only hospital in berkeley, california, that hospitals are supposed to produce "community health needs assessments" as part of the affordable care act (" questions loom over sutter health's community benefit spending," modern healthcare).Cognitive science learning from the web:

The patient protection and affordable care act (ACA) added section 501(r) to the internal revenue code which imposes new requirements on 501(c)(3) organizations that operate one or more hospital facilities.Cognitive science learning under section 501(r), each hospital facility operated by a 501(c)(3) organization must meet the following four general requirements on a facility-by-facility basis in order for the organization to maintain its 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status:1

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The study also says among its findings, the "impact on the poor, the uninsured, and people of color who are much more likely to not have a primary care doctor and not seek alternative care" if the hospital closes.Cognitive science learning no such assessment likely conducted concerning providence hospital. A comparable assessment should have been produced wrt providence and the likely impact on washington hospital center.Cognitive science learning

(when the school system under chancellor rhee destroyed the "junior highs," merging them with elementary schools, it ended up "breaking the chain of feeder schools" for high schools, pushing parents to enroll their children in charter schools, and then keeping them in charter schools when it came time for high school.Cognitive science learning separately, the city made a commitment to build a new junior high school for the shaw area.)

Ward 4 as a similar example: a new middle school for coolidge.Cognitive science learning as an aside, I'd forgotten that I almost single-handedly ended up warding off a similar kind of process in ward 4, which has lost most of its public middle schools to charter schools, and the desire to create new feeder schools for the ward's high schools, coolidge and roosevelt.Cognitive science learning

The montgomery county charter (section 302) requires the county executive to submit a comprehensive six-year program for capital improvements, called the capital improvements program (CIP), not later than january 15 of each even-numbered calendar year.Cognitive science learning the charter requires that the annual capital budget be consistent with the six-year program. In odd-numbered calendar years, the approved CIP, together with any amendments, continues to guide capital investment.Cognitive science learning

The county charter (section 302) also provides that the CIP may be amended at any time. In practice, amendments to the CIP are limited to conform to the requirement for a biennial, or every other year, CIP.Cognitive science learning criteria for amendments generally include: use of funds from external sources; projects which address significant health or safety requirements; and economic development opportunities.Cognitive science learning

Similarly, ellington high school for the arts was rebuilt, even though it is a "city-wide" school lacking metrorail station access, while wilson is over capacity.Cognitive science learning instead ellington should have been shifted to an existing school building accessible to metrorail, and the school building converted to a "neighborhood" high school taking capacity pressure off wilson high school.Cognitive science learning

At a little free library I came across an "instaread" (like the back in the day "cliffs notes" on the book superforecasting by tetlock and gardner, which was quite interesting.Cognitive science learning while I wouldn't call myself a superforecaster, I do constantly seek new information and experiences to better hone my analysis and understandings as they relate to transportation and urban revitalization.Cognitive science learning

Coming across some recent "forecasts" by businesses and stock analysts and the general hype that has accompanied them for some time, I just can't believe how much money must be sloshing around in the capital markets, to fund concepts that are not necessarily nonsensical, but are disconnected from "the market" or "how things work" in practice.Cognitive science learning

First, the road network (miles of roadway and number of lanes) is pretty much fixed (unless you add tunnels). In turn this puts a limit on the number of vehicles which can be accommodated. (zurich is one of the few cities that takes this to the logical endpoint, by "metering" how many vehicles can enter the city.Cognitive science learning see , which means that there is only so much capacity for vehicles.

This graphic shows corridors, so the "mixed traffic" mode it is referring to is freeway driving, which doesn't correspond to driving within cities, where lane capacity ranges from 600 to 1,500 cars per hour (the latter on fast moving very wide arterials and one way streets), less than a freeway, because there are many more intersections crossing the street.Cognitive science learning

The third element concerns market demand, and whether or not there is enough demand to sustain a working business model. Transit/shared vehicle users are clustered in the largest center cities.Cognitive science learning most of the rest of the US is car dependent, and people drive a lot and long distances. To get to the point of sustainable market demand may not happen in my lifetime, and hopefully I still have 30+ years to live.Cognitive science learning

Moore begins with the diffusion of innovations theory from everett rogers, and argues there is a chasm between the early adopters of the product (the technology enthusiasts and visionaries) and the early majority (the pragmatists).Cognitive science learning moore believes visionaries and pragmatists have very different expectations, and he attempts to explore those differences and suggest techniques to successfully cross the "chasm," including choosing a target market, understanding the whole product concept, positioning the product, building a marketing strategy, choosing the most appropriate distribution channel and pricing.Cognitive science learning

While concepts such as shifting from ownership to fractional use have been around for awhile (e.G., "timeshares") and in sectors now ranging from clothes to travel stays to car sharing substituting for car ownership and taxis, the idea is that the cost of fractional use renting should be less than what one pays to own and/or operate and maintain the items.Cognitive science learning for some of these markets, they don't need a "mass market," because they can charge premium prices.