Mark Muro, a Brookings planning expert, said that in the absence of government investment, like that made in Europe and Asia, smart American metro areas, like Seattle, have designed regional transformation plans with impressive private and nonprofit collegiality, "rather than simply beg for aid through the usual siloed channels".
Metro status (metro versus non metro) was used to represent external healthcare environment.
Manila's new railway carries only 8% of the traffic; Bangkok's smart new sky train and metro only 3%; and Kolkata's metro even less.
I hire a YouBike – a simple matter of touching the dock with a smart card, valid for the metro and buses too – and head off on a cycling tour of the city with Phil Tai, president of the Formosa Lohas Cycling Association.
And in the near future, French citizens will be able to use their smart cards to pay for the metro (subway trains) and highway tolls.
Furthermore, the community structure of mobility patterns of residents is revealed based on passenger information (i.e., smart-card data) of the metro system, which is caused by the regionalization of residential areas in a mountain city.
Ultimately, our real competitors are growing metro areas around the world, like Singapore, Seoul, Istanbul and Munich, so it's smart to see neighbors as allies in a global struggle in which the United States lags.
Smugly, I perched on my seat in the Paris Metro, reading my neat, light-weight, ultratransportable e-reader in its smart, black-leather cover while dinosaurs all around me fumbled with clunky paperbacks as we roared onward from stops at Bastille or Concorde to our new destination: after Liberté, Egalité and Fraternité, add Modernité.
That's according to a study out today from Smart Growth America, which attempted to measure the concept of urban sprawl in 221 metro areas nationwide.
Earlier this year, Smart Growth America released, "Dangerous by Design," which tabulates pedestrian deaths broken down by states and metro areas from 2003 to 2012.
