The Hub 7/7/17: Clean Air Council’s Weekly Round-up of Transportation News

“The Hub” is a weekly round-up of transportation related news in the Philadelphia area and beyond. Check back weekly to keep up to date on the issues Clean Air Council’s transportation staff finds important.

Philly Voice: SEPTA invests $5.6 million in making all those delays more bearable – Real time data on SEPTA’s vehicle locations is expected to appear at stations and on SEPTA’s  app by the end of July.

Next City: Seattle app puts a dollar amount on traffic death –  Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, a safe streets advocacy organization, hopes that visualizing the cost of traffic deaths can help with advocating for intersection improvements around the city.

Plan Philly: Led by Uber, ride-hailing companies meet wheelchair accessibility threshold – In Philadelphia, Transportation Network Companies as a whole were to have a minimum of 70 wheelchair accessible vehicles on the streets by June 30.

Fortune: Google’s Waze is helping drivers avoid left-hand turns – Not only are left-hand turns one of the most challenging maneuvers for a driver to make, they also create congestion, cause accidents, and waste fuel.

Science Daily: Ensuring carpoolers are compatible is key to ridesharing success – A study matched carpoolers based on social media analytics, rather than geographic location and time schedule, and found that carpoolers who ride with someone they actually like could reduce car use by nearly 60%.

Podcast: Here to There – Here to There is a 10-part series podcast created by a St. Paul public affairs agency and local transportation advocates that looks at transportation through health, sustainability, employment, accessibility, and more.

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