Transportation and Logistics – Insight Sciences

Tech companies visualize government shut down

October 19, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Design UX, Knowledge Management

Tech companies produce fascinating data on the government shutdown
Christina Farr, venturebeat.com

Tickets On Sale Now

Tech startups have taken advantage of the data scientists and engineers on their staff to produce some interesting studies on the impact of the government shutdown.

On its blog, fancy car-sharing service Uber…

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Zipcar, Getaround, Uber: Are rental-car alternatives for you? (csmonitor.com)
Livop France speaks with the Car Share Directory (carsharedirectory.com)
Carbon Currency A New Beginning for Technocracy? (anationbeguiled.wordpress.com)
2013?s Best Sharing Economy Concepts (triplepundit.com)
Baby, You Can Drive (or Ride in) My Car (online.wsj.com)

NYC prepping shipping container homes for disaster relief

March 1, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Systems Science

NYC is Preparing Shipping Container Homes for Future Hurricanes and Disasters
Haywood Udume, inhabitat.com

After the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy, New York City is getting prepped for the future with a plan to build disaster shelters out of shipping containers. Rather than makeshift dwel …

RT @inhabitat: NYC is Preparing Shipping Container Homes for Future Hurricanes and Disasters
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Shipping Containers Become Recycled Material For Brooklyn Couple’s Dream Home (statenisland.ny1.com)
Do shipping container houses make sense for disaster relief housing? (treehugger.com)

Brooklyn’s New DeKalb Market is Made from 22 Salvaged Shipping Containers – Exclusive Photos! DeKalb Container Market

January 18, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

DeKalb Market: Shipping Containers (Photo credit: Inhabitat)

Where No Cars Go says:, inhabitat.com

Emerging from the Jay Street stop of the R train, visitors encounter a wall of orange, red and white containers behind white fencing that holds up a banner to welcome visitors. Passing through an alley between two double stacks of…

Brooklyn’s New DeKalb Market is Made from 22 Salvaged Shipping Containers – Exclusive Photos! DeKalb Container Market

Parking in Brooklyn to become even scarcer (myparkingsign.com)
Heritage Woods of DeKalb to Offer Tai Chi for Seniors (prweb.com)
Social Media Agency fishbat, Inc. Comments On NYPD Using Social Media To Catch Criminals In Brooklyn (prweb.com)

Why steam punk is a usability testing tool for new technologies

December 28, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

Being More Human | Next | Output
Kathleen Holt, oregonhumanities.org

Being More Human

Intel’s resident futurist on how the steampunk culture offers clues to building a better tomorrow

Easter weekend 2011, I was at the bar of the Doubletree Hotel at Sea-Tac Airport watching a parade of sorts: a…

Being More Human | Next | Output | Oregon Humanities http://flip.it/XHXlK http://flip.it/3LQ8l

SteamPunk Helicopter (cooloasis.org)

Pier 57 “Incubox” Shipping Container Mall Set to Open Next April in NYC Youngwoo Pier57

December 8, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

inhabitat.com

Starting in April, sixty shipping container shops will open their doors on the former shipping industry pier under the unified name “Incubox”. For the first two years of operation (basically until the entire pier makeover is complete)…

http://flip.it/hF0GX

Pier 57 “Incubox” Shipping Container Mall Set to Open Next April in NYC Youngwoo Pier57

Aluminum travel trailers to store your tools and green tech gear

November 29, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

(via Single Axle Cargo Trailer – Buy Factory Direct – Enclosed Aluminum Trailers)

Find the Best Enclosed Trailers for Sale (yucaipatrailers.wordpress.com)
Welcome to NY Trailers Inc. You’ve come to the right place. (nytrailersinc.wordpress.com)

Shipping Container-Inspired Homebox

October 22, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

Shipping Container-Inspired Homebox is a Tiny, Movable 3-Story Vertical Home
Bridgette Meinhold, inhabitat.com

Han Slawik based his Homebox on the shipping container model for its transport capabilities, universal dimensions and usefulness. But at the same time, wear, repair and maintenance of steel materials is costly, not to mention…

http://flpbd.it/cSdov

Starbucks Opens Drive-Thru Made from Recycled Shipping Containers in Northglenn, CO (inhabitat.com)
New shipping container cafe opens soon (bristolculture.wordpress.com)
Masterful Shipping Container Greenhouses by Damien Chivialle (complex.com)
WFH House incorporates shipping containers into a modular building system (gizmag.com)
House built from shipping containers designed in Denmark, assembled in China (treehugger.com)

Tempohousing: container housing products

May 19, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

English: ISO 20 feet shipping container conver... — English: ISO 20 feet shipping container converted in student housing room. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Cool company. Based in Netherlands this place designs houses from shipping containers (something which is increasingly being done in a DIY manner). This means the house is ISO standards compliant, modular and practically bomb proof. Plus for the growing numbers of the world’s poor and resource limited populations, these are recyclable and low cost housing.

container housing products.

O+A’s temporary shipping container “city” (gizmag.com)
Shipping Containers to Survival Bunkers (sgtreport.com)
Hoover Container Solutions Acquires Consult Supply AS (prweb.com)
Unique Eco-Friendly Homes (sprayfoamdirect.com)

CLEAR Speeds You Through Airport Security and uses Cloud Contest for Innovation

August 29, 2009 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy, Security & Privacy

Image representing Clear as depicted in CrunchBase — Image via CrunchBase

Home | CLEAR Speeds You Through Airport Security.

This is an interesting contest and example of social networking and innovation. CLear will offer 500k to anyone who can come up with a way to speed people thru airport security a little bit faster. It can be a process or a technology…

If Forced To Toss Your Makeup at Airport Security, Would You… (bellasugar.com)
New TSA Airport Security Procedure: Pop Quiz, failure to answer leads to being detained! (investmentwatchblog.com)
Iris Scan = Shorter Wait In Airport Security Line (dfw.cbslocal.com)
Stolen Plane Incident Raises More Questions About Airport Security (denver.cbslocal.com)
11-year-old boy slips through airport security and flies to Rome (express.co.uk)
Feds extend Nexus travel pass to more airports (lfpress.com)
Rome alone: Boy, 11, without passport or ticket gets through FIVE airport security checks to catch Italy flight on his own (mirror.co.uk)
US airport security guard opens jar of man’s ashes, spills them on the floor, then ‘stands and laughs’ as grandson scrambles to gather them up (investmentwatchblog.com)

Traffic: usability and social science of traffic

November 11, 2008 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Knowledge Management

Traffic » Home.

This interesting book looks at traffic from a usability/behavioral perspective. For example it notes that speed bumps were proven worthless because drivers speed up between them to make up time!

Tube Traffic Secrets: Review Examines Jeff Johnson’s YouTube Traffic Training Course (prweb.com)
Annoying Traffic Cameras Are No Match for Subversive Technology (txwclp.org)
Google: we’re a ‘mobile first’ company now (mobot.net)
Curb Fast Drivers With Speed Bumps? (newschannel9.com)
Framingham residents hear ideas for dangerous road (metrowestdailynews.com)
Traffic delays predicted on Rte. 85, Hudson, this week (metrowestdailynews.com)
Social Media: What is the Right Platform for Your Business? (aboutsocialmedia.com)
Report Indicates StumbleUpon Is Sending Less Traffic To Sites (webpronews.com)

Scanner anthro: the cognitive limits of airport security

August 25, 2007 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Security & Privacy

English: A demonstrative image for "Proje... — English: A demonstrative image for “Project Hostile Intent.” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Scanner psych – The Boston Globe.

Shows how the airport security system is flawed due to human cognitive limits on recognizing items over and over and shows how gaming can improve this.

If Forced To Toss Your Makeup at Airport Security, Would You… (bellasugar.com)
After Years of Work and Millions of Dollars, TSA’s Stupid Shoe Scanners Still Don’t Work (jaunted.com)
TSA Demands Bizarre New Power To Test Drinks Purchased In Airports (mountainrepublic.net)
Security stepped up at airports in State (thehindu.com)
New York: JFK Airport Security. Let’s Talk About It a Moment. (jaunted.com)
TSA: Move to allow shoes doesn’t pan out (travel.usatoday.com)
A medical miracle almost done in by airport security (amanwithaphd.wordpress.com)
Sky Harbor gets faster security system (abc15.com)
Securiport Advocates Proactive Immigration Control Systems (sys-con.com)
US airport security guard opens jar of man’s ashes, spills them on the floor, then ‘stands and laughs’ as grandson scrambles to gather them up (investmentwatchblog.com)

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