Ten Things You Can Do With a Bicycle
Inventors have recast the bicycle as a cheap power supply for myriad products. The world’s most efficient transportation device...
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Interest: Transport
Bridges, boats and wheels are connecting people in inventive ways. Bicycle ambulances save lives in the world’s hard-to-reach communities, clinics on buses take medical care to the village, and farmers build do-it-yourself tractors and drive trucks that pull double duty as water pumps and crop processors. Drivers and riders are at the center of transport design in global development.
Interest: Transport
Research Brief: Low-Cost Cameras and Open-Source Algorithms ...
Motion-activated digital cameras can effectively measure traffic across trail bridges in low-resource settings, according to new research. The Mortenson Center in Global Engineering (MCGE) at the University of Colorado Boulder...
Eight Innovations Changing Urban Mobility and Transportation
This article is part of a series by students in the Sustainable Development program at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pensylvania (USA). The articles reveal snapshots of technology that is...
Trailbridges May Have A Far Broader Impact Than Once Thought
Early findings from surveys that the non-profit organization Bridges to Prosperity (B2P) conducted in rural Rwanda suggest that our trailbridges serve a geographic area much larger than we initially estimated....
Startups and Government: Two Different Roads to Better Trans...
There are a few things that everyone must experience in Lebanon’s capital city of Beirut: the delicious food, the wonderful weather, and the horrendous traffic. On average, Lebanese spend...
Introduction to T-SUM, the Transition to Sustainable Urban M...
E4C’s Contributing Editor Dr. Daniel Oviedo, a lecturer in Transport and Urban Development Planning at the Development Planning Unit of University College London, is creating work packages as resources...
Better Batteries Fuel a Surge of Electric Scooters in India ...
Two-wheelers – motorcycles and motorized scooters – account for the majority of vehicles on the roads in developing countries. China and India are the two largest markets for two-wheelers, which...
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Advanced Simulation May Change Product Manufacturing for the Better
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Engineering for Change’s Research Fellow Ignatius Waikwa Wins a Prize and Advocates for Development Tech in a Kenyan Slum
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Experts Affirm Two Pillars of Sustainable Development: Open Source Tech and Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
Sustainable development needs to transcend traditional boundaries to improve its efficacy. Experts working at the intersection of technology and...
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Bicycles and Pedestrians Are Key to Easing Congestion on Mumbai’s Suburban Trains
Nearly 3000 train services carry 8 million passengers daily through Mumbai, India’s financial capital. Suburban trains are chronically overcrowded,...
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Technological Innovation Is Key to Africa’s Sustainable Economic Development
African innovation in technology has to grow considerably and address long-term economic value if it is to compete in...
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Sexism and the city: how urban planning has failed women
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Mission (im)possible: The Quest for Affordable Electric Vehicles for Emerging Markets
What would it take to design a cost-effective electric vehicle for emerging markets? This question was raised in the...
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Amazonian dirt roads are choking Brazil’s tropical streams
Editor’s note: Research into aquatic wildlife in the Brazilian Amazon revealed a potential threat posed by poorly designed road...
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Hello Tractor’s Business-Saving Pivot from Hardware to Software
The “smart” tractor company closed its manufacturing operation to focus on agricultural ICT. By September of 2016, an agricultural...
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