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Exploring Madrid’s Transportation Systems

Back in May, I took a week-long trip to Spain with my family, the majority of which was spent in Madrid. In addition to the beautiful sights, delicious food, and friendly people, one of the things that stood out to ...

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Reflecting on 20 Years of Foursquare ITP

August 21, 2026 by Lora Byala, President & CEO

As I reflect on the past 20 years, what strikes me is just how much the company and my job have changed. Each year has been different, an ever-evolving landscape of the industry, what our clients need, what the company does, and what I do every day.   ...

Rethinking Regulation

August 20, 2026 by Kyle Hearing, GISP and Sophie Maes

As planners who spend our working hours (and plenty of our free time) thinking about how to make active transportation safer and more comfortable, we’ve found it impossible to ignore how e-bikes and other lightweight electric mobility devices have changed ...

The Transit Workforce Challenge: From Crisis to Opportunity

January 15, 2026 by Russell Pildes

It has been an exciting year for transit, with many towns and cities taking charge of their future with positive visions for pro-people and pro-planet places featuring abundant housing and walkable lifestyles. However, that enthusiasm has been tempered, and even ...

Train Hard, Drive Less: Benelux

October 14, 2025 by Jessica Lin

Have you heard of the “Benelux” region? Benelux is the name given to the geopolitical assembly of three countries: Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Benelux is an official intergovernmental grouping of these neighboring states, even having its own logo. Nowadays, the ...

All Aboard the Intern Train! Building Connections in Urban Mobility

August 12, 2025 by Avery Cutler

At the beginning of June, I started what would be a 10-week-long internship at Foursquare ITP. As a math and history double major from Bowdoin College, a small liberal arts school in Brunswick, Maine, I was thrilled to explore transportation ...

Exploring Madrid’s Transportation Systems

July 14, 2025 by Cate Longino

Back in May, I took a week-long trip to Spain with my family, the majority of which was spent in Madrid. In addition to the beautiful sights, delicious food, and friendly people, one of the things that stood out to ...

Three Days on the C&O Canal Towpath

June 10, 2025 by Laura Duke, Ehab Ebeid, Charlie Echard, and Cinnamon Swenson

The Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Towpath is a 184.5-mile dirt and gravel trail that runs along the C&O Canal between Cumberland, Maryland, and Washington, DC. It was originally built for mules to walk on while they towed boats moving cargo ...

Visiting Family in the Hills of Rural Central Mexico

April 28, 2025 by Brian Siegel

I recently took a ten-day trip to central Mexico, where my wife’s parents live in a peaceful rural community nestled in the hills near Moroleón, a city in the southern part of the state of Guanajuato. The views were stunning: ...

12 Trains, 13 Hours

March 31, 2025 by Laura Duke

I recently took a trip to Europe where I traveled on 12 trains between seven cities, so I decided to invoke a favorite US planner pastime and compare US transit to that of international countries and see how we can ...

500 Points and Counting: My Bike Angels Experience

February 27, 2025 by Reinaldo Germano

I’ve been a regular bikeshare user for years—even before moving to Washington, DC. During my first week here, I signed up for a Capital Bikeshare (CaBi) annual membership. I loved knowing that with every ride, I was “saving” money by ...

A Midnight (3:00 a.m., Actually) Train to Georgia (Ohio, Actually)

January 22, 2025 by Jarred Toups

When our leadership asked if I was interested in going to last year’s American Public Transit Association’s (APTA) Rail Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, I couldn’t say “yes!” fast enough. I’ve long desired to expand Foursquare ITP’s position in the rail ...

A Picture Can Be Worth MORE Than a Thousand Words!
Using Visualizations to Translate Complex Transit Projects

November 18, 2024 by James Gibbons

The “Aha!” Moment Like most infrastructure, transit projects get complicated. LRT or BRT? Fixed route or microtransit? Above or below grade? Nearside or farside? If these words confuse you, you’re not alone—they trip up transit planners too! As projects become ...

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