Friday, September 12, 2014

Your Phone- All You Need To Get Where You're Going

In your opinion, what is the most important innovation of the decade when it comes to transportation? Self-driving cars? Bike share programs? Electric cars? According the The Atlantic, it's the smartphone.

Yep, your phone can help you choose a bus route and see what time the bus comes, hail a taxi, unlock your bike lock, direct your car and provide directions.

While that's all great and good, even with all these options, the Atlantic says the smartphone is being underutilized in the transportation arena. Here's why.
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SRTC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Spokane County. Urbanized areas with populations exceeding 50,000 people are required to have an MPO. SRTC was formed to address the county's transportation planning needs. It provides coordination in planning between the public, cities, small towns, the county, the state, transit providers, and tribes.

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