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Active Transportation Gets People Moving

All of us are active transportation users at some point along our journeys. That means we use either walking, biking, a wheelchair, or any other self-powered mode to move from place to place. What I love about active transportation planning is that these projects truly serve everyone in the community.

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Transportation Planning Meets Data Science

March 19, 2020 by Adam Recchia & Wylie Timmerman

Bigger data sets demand bolder solutions, and that’s why we’re excited to announce the launch of Foursquare ITP’s Transportation Data Science Team. Foursquare ITP has already been pushing the envelope in complex data analysis, web app development, and interactive data ...

Four Lessons on Transit Planning in Southern California

February 5, 2020 by Sandy Klanfer

One of the best ways for transportation planners to understand the strengths and weaknesses of a public transit system is to experience it for themselves. That’s one reason why I like to ride public transportation wherever I go. On a ...

Core Values

October 10, 2019 by Lora Byala, AICP

In August 2011 at my dining room table, the Foursquare ITP team – myself, Shana Johnson, David Miller, Gary Byala, and two other then-current employees – crafted Foursquare ITP’s core values. These values, which supported us as we grew from ...

Data viz (data visualization) is in!

September 7, 2018 by Rachel Lesniak

Thanks to a plethora of easy-to-use tools and experts who invest time in exploring them, good data viz practice is now an emphasis when communicating with expert and non-expert audiences alike. At Foursquare ITP, we do a lot of both: ...

Reflecting on Year One of goDCgo

September 4, 2018 by Danelle Carey

The last eleven months working on the goDCgo program has been a combination of learning, developing, and putting plans into action. With an entirely new team onboard we had to hit the ground running to quickly understand the needs of ...

Supporting Transit in an Era of Technological Change

April 25, 2018 by Peter Hadley

These are heady times in the transportation sector. In the past decade we’ve seen the rise of third generation bikeshare systems; private dockless bike share; the race to develop electric, connected and automated vehicles (CAVs); demographic and lifestyle preference changes; ...

Lessons From New Dockless Bike Share Systems as They Enter American Cities

December 22, 2017 by William Shuldiner

Working at Foursquare ITP has given me the opportunity to work with people who are extremely knowledgeable and passionate about bikeshare. Since Capital Bikeshare arrived in my hometown, Washington, D.C., in 2010, I have been excited to both use the ...

Ushering in a new generation of transportation planners

November 17, 2017 by Alex Cohen and Lora Byala

Transportation planning is all about preparing for the future. It’s not uncommon for planners to design rail lines that will not break ground for 40 years, or to create bus routes that won’t exist for 20 years. As we focus ...

Making Public Engagement Informative (and Fun) for All

October 26, 2017 by Sandy Klanfer, Transportation Planner

Transportation as a System – A Planner’s View As transportation planners, it’s our job to think deeply, on a daily basis, about transportation as a system that moves people where they need to go, as quickly, safely, and efficiently as ...

Transit maps –
What makes good design for a variety of uses?

October 13, 2017 by Jarred Toups, Transportation Planner

Transit maps are hot right now – a phrase that I never expected to write. Rapid transit simulation games like Mini Metro win awards for “Excellence in Visual Art” and “Excellence in Design.” [1] Artists now create fantasy metro maps ...

Transit differences between Asia and the US – what could we be doing different?

September 28, 2017 by Jamie Roberts

Jamie started working at Foursquare ITP as a Transportation Planner in July after spending a month in Japan and Korea. Anyone who has been to East Asia will tell you the public transit is far superior to that in the ...

Civil Rights and Public Transit – How do they work together today?

November 29, 2016 by Katie List

From Plessy v. Ferguson to the Montgomery bus boycotts and beyond, public transportation in the U.S. has a long relationship with civil rights; Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 builds on this relationship by establishing a legal connection. How do civil rights and public transportation continue to work together today?

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