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#Can a city really ban cars from its streets? The German city of Hamburg has announced plans to become car-free within the next two decades.
Choosing walking can help designers build more inviting streets, and allow cities to prioritise their people over cars.
or poor street lighting might make the walk less than pleasant#meaning you may be less likely to do it again.
streets are ranked green, yellow and red based on how good they are for walking. But only a human can stand on a street
and get a feeling for how it feels to walk there and what could be improved,
#which serve the needs of Asian cultures#accounting for street markets and vendors, auto rickshaws and motorcycles#rather than one-size-fits-all Western street design.
Perhaps the biggest deterrent for walkers is the perception that it's unsafe which can mean anything from the poor street lighting to badly marked crosswalks to high crime.
But walking is the only option for a large percentage of the world's population that cannot afford a car,
There has been perhaps no better advertisement for walking than the open-street festivals modelled after the ciclovías, common in Colombian cities.
On Sundays, Bogota and Medellin#close up to 80 miles (130km) of streets to cars. Cities have seen the value of turning tarmac over to walkers and bikers,
and has grown to become the largest open-street event in the US with over 100,000 people in the streets per event.
Now, one of the city's main thoroughfares, Broadway, is being converted into a pedestrian-friendly street.#
Boot camp for start-up success Rothschild Boulevard has always been one of the grandest streets in Tel aviv, with its broad tree-lined central promenade and elegant Bauhaus architecture.
"The street is full of start-ups. We talk together, help each other. There are no big companies here,
meaning alley or avenue in German, is part of many street names in the city), which to some observers evokes the atmosphere of the early days in Northern California.
#Unmasking organised crime networks with data Military software engineers have developed a program that can predict the social structures of street gangs.
In fact, violent street gangs seem to be set up along similar lines to insurgent groups that stage armed resistance to political authority,
A team at the West point Military academy in the US state of New york has released just details of a software package it has developed to aid intelligence gathering by police dealing with street gangs.
For example, information spreading happens quite differently on a grid (like the street network of Manhattan,
which aim to have fewer cars and more people on the streets. There is a problem, according to Daniel Kim, Founder and CEO of Lit Motors:"
you could fit twice as many cars onto the streets, and into parking spaces.""We want to put less car on the road,
Benefits of commuting on electricity Though electric buses are not newhe first was introduced in Berlin in 1882lder models frequently required wires to hang over each bus route, marking bus paths through city streets.
Developing additional policy levers on the state and federal level can help take battery electric and fuel cell buses beyond pilot programs and onto city streets near you.
Zerobus TARC all-electric fleet is now providing fare-free rides for passengers along Main Market and Fourth streets.
Putting these zero emission buses on the street will connect residents with jobs education and other opportunities while improving air quality and offering 21st century transportation options to the region growing population for years to come.?
Charging stops are on the south side of Market street between Eighth and Ninth streets and on the west side of South Third street between York and Breckinridge streets.
Main-Market Zerobuses circle between 10th and Campbell streets. On Fourth Street the buses travel between Breckinridge Street and the Galt House circling around Fourth Street Live!
by taking Fifth street northbound and Third street southbound. South of Broadway the buses travel south on Third street and north on Fourth Street.
Zerobuses operate on Fourth Street from 7 a m.#7 p m. and on Main-Market from 7 a m.#8 p m. on weekdays.
Buses run on both routes from 10 a m. 6 p m. on Saturdays. The Main-Market route features red Zerobus stop signs.
Green bus stop signs are on the Fourth Street route s
#Watch Bill gates Drink Water From Human waste We know that Bill gates made a lot of money from Microsoft
"If you would talk to people on the street, many would say that they lack confidence in our ability to manage natural resources
The fibers serve as a pathway to allow electrons to travel to the electrodes on the sides of the solar cell. t s like you re generating a street
and somebody that s traveling along the street can find a way to go from this end to anotheryu explains.
what we are excited aboutsays Professor George Eleftheriades of the University of Toronto. t s very practical. icture a mailbox sitting on the street.
Already utilized in devices such as street lighting and televisions LED TECHNOLOGY is becoming more popular as it becomes more versatile and brighter.
"Maybe someone wants to appeal specifically to the customers leaving the shop across the street,
and die on the street. In another striking move, South korea is also pushing to make diagnoses early,
and don blue 3-D glasses for ementia Experiencevideo journeys following people disoriented on streets or seeking bathrooms.
this prototype New york Police department cruiser looks like almost any other squad car combing the streets of New york city.
said many departments adopt technology to increase the department s presence without having to place more officers on the street.
to help those with disabilities better navigate urban streets. Of course, as in the upcoming video game Watch Dogs from Ubisoft, a bad guy could hack into the city and use its monitoring systems in nefarious ways.
#Driverless cars to be launched on UK streets by 2015 ULTRA PRT#transport pod. Chances are if you have been to London s Heathrow Airport you have caught probably a glimpse of something called an ULTRA PRT#transport pod.
and heading out into the city streets. Video)##The city of Milton Keynes lies just to the north of London.
meaning that the streets can get a tad congested from time to time. But thanks to a new fleet of pod cars, that might just be about to change.
The pod cars are planned to run along the streets of Milton Keynes for five years as part of a pilot program.
smartphone-hailed pod cars will someday grace the streets of cities all across the world.
and onto our streets. And most of our current bottles don degrade. A high percentage of the products we buy in grocery stores contain water.
In a joint 300 million project, universities across Britain are coming together, alongside the Department of health, the Wellcome Trust, Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Medical Research Council.
Every major institution said this would be horrible and lead to violence and blood in the streets.
window cleaners and street market vendors to grow their business and sell on the go using smartphones. Clinkle is introducing a mobile wallet for day to day transactions
deliver advanced street lighting and enhance building energy efficiency. Glasgow aims to open up data to demonstrate how providing integrated health, transport,
Come for the nightlife street art and that charming West country drawl. Stay for the human excrement-powered airport shuttle.
even those who pass by on the street. By 1#p m.,after giving hundreds of doses, they stop for the day###the first of a national five-day effort.
"In addition to tighter lab security and tougher laws, the trio called for yeast strains to be engineered to produce drugs with limited street value,
#A new way to detect leaks in pipes Explosions caused by leaking gas pipes under city streets have made frequently headlines in recent years,
#Drive-by heat mapping In 2007, Google unleashed a fleet of cars with roof-mounted cameras to provide street-level images of roads around the world.
and the people who love them) from around the country and the world onto the streets of New york city just a couple days before the climate summit on Sunday September 21.
said she had rushed out onto the street after grabbing her eight-year-old son and 12 year-old daughter."
including Bihar where television footage showed residents gathering on the streets and goods having toppled over in shop windows.
and many street cars that can rotate upwards to increase traction on the tires by increasing drag
with the popular i3 already roaming the streets of Warsaw. Should the idea prove popular
13:14 GMT, 15 may 2015 The daily commute through congested city streets can really get you down.
Once an object or street scene has been recorded, subsequent encounters are announced through an earpiece. The wearer can also tag images of a person face by speaking their name out loud
Before moving to street-level trafficking, many prescription opioid addicts first try to obtain the drugs through pharmacies.
along with other nonprofits and volunteers who hit the streets to identify homeless vets. his means that all known chronically homeless veterans are housed
could put more drugs on the street.""Unfortunately, one of the implications, in my judgment, is that addicts would have easier access to something that threatens health in very serious ways,
could put more drugs on the street.""Unfortunately, one of the implications, in my judgment, is that addicts would have easier access to something that threatens health in very serious ways,
and Dr Frauke Zeller Ryerson University, Toronto to explore the streets and make new friends.
This human dependent adorable robot traversed the streets of Canada and Netherlands and made many friendly connections.
The current iteration isn sensitive enough to keep somebody on the sidewalk instead of a nearby street
#Japanese engineer develops world's first'car in a bag'Pocket-sized personal transporters could soon be seen on the streets of Tokyo.
The earthquake caused huge cracks to open in the streets of Kathmandu. The Nepalese capital lies in a sediment filled basin,
Smith said. e are actively raising additional capital to help us bring this innovative public health product to people in need around the world. adidrop PBC administrative office is located on Allied Street in Charlottesville
and the production facility is on Avon Street o
#Deep-sea bacteria could help neutralize greenhouse gas, researchers find A type of bacteria plucked from the bottom of the ocean could be put to work neutralizing large amounts of industrial carbon dioxide in the Earth atmosphere,
That might explain why John Lewis boss Andy Street has poured cold water on the idea of Black Friday,
"Street predicts that Black Friday 2015 will still see lots of deals around electronics and computing,
But as John Lewis's Andy Street said, the genie's out of the bottle-so if retailers don't take part,
What about the bicycles, scooters and pedestrians hoping to cross the street? They have smartphones,
That widget manufacturer down the street likely has a data center and has developed and maintains a portfolio of its own custom software that keep evolving.
the microcamera is now impervious to vibrations on uneven street surfaces.""Our system can not only be used to detect traffic signs.
The study tracked 4, 000 people in New york city for four years--two years living on streets,
and streets was-1. 4 percent in February 2013 compared to one year earlier. Meanwhile, in 2012, U s. GDP increased 2. 2 percent
#Google maps goes underground"in Japan's radioactive zone"This is not a place you'd want to hang around for too long Google is producing underground street maps of Japan's nuclear exclusion zone.
At the same time, sharing your car can take 10 cars off the streets, which counteracts the increasingly crowded roads, traffic and pollution.
A kidnapper grabs a person on the street and begins to drive away. A diner at a restaurant starts choking on their food and enters cardiac arrest.
so they and their local governments can see pollution on their own streets. Independent scientific analysis confirmed that the mobile sensor system worked for collecting street-by-street data
and could improve upon the regional network of sensors operated by the Environmental protection agency. Herzl says e hope that one day this information is as accessible as the weather.
Even some of the area biggest technology boosters are appalled. ou have people begging in the street on University avenue Palo alto main street,
the wealthy city-state known for its tidy streets and clean, green image. But for much of that particular school year, clouds of smoke shrouded the skyline.
"said Adam Friedmann, a consultant dermatologist at the Harley Street dermatology clinic.""I can understand why you would do it for severe burns or trauma but
The team, from Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, showed that the blood test could detect Down's syndrome in 99 percent of cases.
'The test-known as RAPID-is already available privately at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Later this month, the researchers will present their findings to the UK National Screening Committee,
and many people have been seen wearing masks on Seoul streets over the past few days. Last week, the son of one of the patients ignored doctor's orders to cancel a trip to China,
It has signed also a deal with A high Street bank""although Costigan won't say who. While it is focusing on the finance sector for now,
it was unable to provide street-level air measurements until now. nvironmental air quality is an issue that affects everyone,
Aclima Goes From Out On The Streets To Inside Your Home While the Google street view partnership could change the way we live
Adam Friedmann, a consultant dermatologist at the Harley Street dermatology clinic, told the BBC: think the science behind it-using 3d printing methods with human cells-sounds plausible. can understand why you would do it for severe burns or trauma but
We have a"street lab"available where innovations like this can be tested. Mars said the idea had enormous potential for future developments.
Solchip has plans to use them to monitor street traffic and the climate in vineyards. here are a lot of application areas,
It not just people on the street, Christian says. t also true for a lot of the people at the very places developing these technologies. hristian cites the example of Stuart Russell, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley,
Shire said it anticipates synergies approximating 25-35%of the Street's consensus forecast of NPS Pharma's standalone future operating cost base from 2017 onward.
if you're in a narrow street that won't let you do a proper U-turn.
when the infrared spotlighting tech will hit the streets s
#Mussel-inspired surgical glue shuts down bleeding wounds in 60 seconds The ability of mussels to stubbornly bind themselves to underwater surfaces has intrigued scientists for years.
while helping a blind woman cross the street one day. he told me that all existing devices only let users see in one direction
#Rotterdam may be first city to build roads from plastic bottles Rotterdam could be the first city to build streets with plastic bottles after the city council announced it is considering piloting a new type of road surface.
The stacks will be powered by piped gas in the same way that homes are supplied with gas from the mains in the street.
and sensitive enough to detect small changes in air quality on a street-by-street basis. Their findings are now informing research projects aimed at improving air quality in major cities across Europe and North america.
whether people living at the top of high-rise buildings experience more or less pollution than people at street level;
The entire nation is just one"currency event"away from the kind of financial collapse that sends people into the streets with a sense of extreme anger.
and many of the street names there envision concepts that are total fiction: Waterfall Lane, Great Spring Drive, Surging Rivers Rd. and so on.
if California renamed its own streets and thoroughfares to match its own fantasies? Everything Is Free Hwy
So you can't walk down the street or drive in a car while doing the Wi-fi only plan
"I started to notice this utility van that was parked at the end of my street at, like, Sunday at 4 a m,
Regardless, cracked concrete is never something you want to see in a building, bridge, or street. At best, it something you want to avoid stepping on (for your mother sake),
Friction between your feet and the floor lets you walk down the street without your feet slipping out from under you.
Pavegen CEO and Founder Laurence Kemball-Cook shares, ut we need several hundred thousand footsteps to allow the vehicle to drive 20 minutes within London busiest streets. avegen electricity
Maybe someone wants to appeal specifically to the customers leaving the shop across the street
Electronic Billboards could display different ads seen from different angles. aybe someone wants to appeal specifically to the customers leaving the shop across the street
like a street profile, prior to coating it with the solar cell, vom Bögel says. Currently IMS sensor prototypes can store enough power for up to 30 hours of darkness.
SOLCHIP seeks to monitor the street traffic for example, or the climate conditions in vineyards. s you can see,
and in the end the distribution of runners on the street will be very broad. Something similar happens to a pulse of light sent through a medium.
and paper money throughout the day and through all sorts of streets and roads you pass through,
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