Blog Posts and News
Traffic Signals for Active Mobility
I've found, in my walks and rides through cities, that traffic signals really impact my route selection. I avoid intersections where I need to wait a long time or need to cross in multiple stages (the completely awful waiting on a traffic island with traffic speeding...
Wiener Grantig: New Bus-Tram Stop Signs
UPDATE: 14 January 2021 Of course the Wiener Linien, the public transport company that makes Vienna the world's most livable city, has very good reasons for the new signs. (I should have known given the overall excellent quality of the Wiener Linien public...
Lokale Agenda Neubau Wien – Walk to (home) Work
This year I've been getting more involved in local transport planning politics - reminding me of my days as a leader in San Francisco's environmental movement. In October I had an idea for people to meet in the morning and take a walk together before work: Walk to...
Tour Bus Confidential – Tourism in Vienna 2023
I developed a proposal for improving management of tour buses in Vienna. They were looking for practical technology applications that could be used to help guide bus drivers through traffic and to parking spaces, etc. but, naturally, I took the idea further and...
Vienna Cafes – Wiener Kaffeehäuser
Vienna is famous for its cafes and coffeehouse culture. Like many cities that developed rapidly in the late 1800s apartments in Vienna were small and people needed space. Cafes provided meals, places to meet, places to read newspapers and to be "at home". Many cities...
Harvesting Gemischten Satz Grapes in Vienna
I started helping Vienna Winemaker Jutta Ambrositsch harvest grapes in 2009. Every year I help out on one or two days. It's a wonderful break from day-to-day work in front of a computer screen. Jutta's wine is excellent and she has my favourite Heurigen in Vienna. It...
Otto Wagner and the Postsparkasse
Self-guided Walking Tour: Otto Wagner and the Postsparkasse By Andrew Nash, originally prepared for Janes Walk Vienna 2015. Other self-guided walking tours: Ringstrasse 1, Otto Wagner Tour, Otto Wagner and the Vienna Stadtbahn, Ringstrasse 2. Postsparkasse – Otto...
Who the heck is Carl Ritter von Ghega?
In February I started working as a senior researcher at the St. Pölten University of Applied Science's Carl Ritter von Ghega Institute for Integrated Mobility Research. Now I know what you are thinking ,,, Who the heck is Carl Ritter von Ghega? According to Wikipedia...
Civic Technology 2019 Reading
Three interesting articles about Crowdsourcing that appeared in late 2019: 2020 and beyond: 11 predictions at the intersection of technology and citizen engagement in the DemocracySpot blog by Tiago Peixoto and Tom Steinberg. Lots of food for thought. Why...
2020 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
Two of my papers were accepted for the 2020 TRB Annual Meeting: Reducing Delays on High-density Railway Lines: Crossrail Case Study Giorgio Medeossi and Andrew Nash - Monday January 13 - 10:15 AM- 12:00 PM - Convention Center, 144A The paper describes development of a...
Using Open Source Data to Identify Blocked Bus and Bike Lanes
Alan Bell has used machine learning to develop a program that analyses data from traffic cameras to identify blocked bus and bike lanes. He analysed a section of St. Nicholas Avenue in Manhattan and found that the bike lane was blocked 55% of the time and the bus stop...
Transit Alliance Miami – Metrorail Arrival Data
The Transit Alliance Miami has created a simple graphic display illustrating the time between Miami Metrorail trains (frequency) at the Government Center station. They have taken Metrorail data and displayed it in an easy to understand format. It is an excellent...
TRB Annual Meeting 2018
I’m co-author for three papers at this year’s Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington DC (8-13 January 2018) …
2018 Updates
Over the holidays I had a chance to update crowdsourced-transport.com with new information. Here are the highlights: Crowdsourced Public Transport page - added: WikiRoutes - site where users can add information about public transport routes and suggest improvements...
MetroQuest Collaboration Application
MetroQuest is an application that provides a suite of tools that can be used to improve the public participation process. The tools support all three types of collaboration: engagement, education and process. It’s been used for many transport projects...
Transit App adds Real Time Information
The Transit App can now collect tracking data from users to help them predict real time arrival information. This is an excellent tool especially in cities where there is no current real time data available. It's also quite helpful because it can be more accurate than...
Making Sense Project
The Making Sense project is funded by the European Commission and has the mission to make advances and experiments in participatory sensing. According to making-sense.eu Making Sense aims to explore how open source software, open source hardware, digital maker...
City Swipe – Santa Monica Downtown
City Swipe is a Tinder-like application designed to collect input on what people like and dislike about downtown Santa Monica (California). It's really simple to use and therefore good for collecting lots of input. Here are the instructions from the project...