Author Archives: willmaus

The following was prepared for a specific school but has been anonymized. A sizable institution such as [school] has an opportunity to leverage its transportation resources to do the most good for its students, staff, and neighborhood with the least … Continue reading →

The website is a collection of essays on transportation written over the years. The theme is an optimistic, pragmatic approach to transportation problems.  It would be great if anything here is useful to others and I am open to corrections … Continue reading →

Our mission is to ensure equitable, cost-efficient, truly sustainable mobility, primarily through carsharing. The net effects of carsharing are money saving, dependability assuring, fossil fuel use avoiding, mobility providing, and space saving. Carshare members can forego all the pitfalls of … Continue reading →

It is easy to believe that UPS trucks come off the assembly line with their yellow flashers on. Center City Philadelphia, at most any point during the day, has dozens of travel lanes blocked by double-parked delivery trucks. This will … Continue reading →

Below is the information I wish I had before setting up a carpooling project recently in Philadelphia. Our task was to use a Federal Transit Administration grant to assist workers living in the city get to jobs unreachable by public … Continue reading →

Some of the lowest hanging fruit in the drive for cleaner, more efficient transportation is the eventual electrification of North America’s freight rail lines. Although increasingly common in the rest of the developed and developing world (the Trans-Siberian route is … Continue reading →