Top 8 Regions in Public Transit Innovation
If you’re looking to go on a family vacation within the US there are a few things that need to be taken into consideration; one that can sometimes get overlooked is transportation safety.
The Natural Resources Defence Council, or NRDC, created the Smarter Cities project which has released a transportation study identifying metropolitan regions with the nation’s leading transportation policies and practices.
The study, created in collaboration with the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT), compares and profiles
- U.S. regions based on public transit availability
- Use and cost
- Household automobile ownership and use
- Innovative, sustainable transportation programs
The large regions, areas with more than 1 million people, that were ranked the highest as ‘smart cities’ are the following:
- Boston (In downtown Boston, around 65% of trips during peak hours are non-motorized due in large part to the city’s Complete Streets initiative, launched in 2009, to create streets that integrate pedestrians, cyclists and public transit with motorists)
- Chicago
- Philadelphia (Philadelphia has selectively expanded the city’s public transit system in certain neighborhoods to increase residents’ access to fresh food)
- Portland
- Oregon
- New York
- San Francisco
- Washington, D.C. (The Capital Bikeshare program has made more than 1,100 bikes available for pick up at solar-powered docking stations throughout the city and Arlington County)
