Ground Transport

Bloomberg is planning to take the lessons learned from significantly changing New York City's physical landscape over the past 12 years to other cities in the U.S. and abroad. This means other cities might look more like the NYC of today than the city itself after a term under new leadership.

This Travelport agreement with FlightCar is a shocker given the regulatory and reputational risks. It's a shocker because we didn't know Travelport had it in them to make such a brash move -- and it is a multi-year agreement, too.

Super Bowl attendees will need more than this map to navigate the region's far from well-designed transit network. However, this and MTA's Weekender map show a slowly improving design sensibility within the transit agencies.

MTA's Flickr page started attracting fans last year with rare photos of an empty city during Hurricane Sandy. It has since chronicled the current-day construction of the NYC transit system, a digital time capsule that will surely be looked at for generations to come.

Eurostar is preparing to expand routes to Amsterdam in 2016 giving the UK a limited amount of time to give up its shares. The UK is looking to raise cash and improve its domestic links.

The deliveries are stunts, but they're also testing the waters for Uber's expansion into on-demand services either in addition to or in replacement of their existing car hailing business.

Uber's savvy promotion of UberX is an exercise in marketing and up-selling. Passengers would have to pay the fare if it exceeds $30, and if frustrated with so many people trying for the freebies, than passengers are urged to try Uber's higher-fare services.

Corporate responsibility is mostly a lot of hype, but these sustainable initiatives from Hertz make good business sense. For most of them, like this waterless car wash initiative, Hertz reduces its costs, helps the environment, and could engender goodwill from customers and potential customers.