In a bustling city like Boston, efficient and reliable transportation is crucial for the daily commutes of residents, visitors, and businesses. Real-time transit information displays play a significant role in making transit easy to use by showing what train, bus, ferry, and subway is near, and where the nearest bikes and other shared vehicles are. …
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TransitScreen®, and other forms of transit information, were studied to understand what sources of information people valued most when it came to discovering when the next bus or train was arriving. Information sources included phone-based arrival prediction tools such as texts and phone calls, information provided at bus stops, and smartphone applications. TransitScreen, now called …
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There’s a trillion-dollar trend called the Internet of Things. Simply put, this means adding small computers to physical objects, and connecting everything together over the internet so useful information can be collected. When a recent McKinsey white paper looked at every foreseeable application of this massive trend, one of the biggest impacts they found was: …
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AlivePromo® provides creative, high quality digital signage and directory solutions. As digital architects, they provide strategic planning, fixture design, equipment fulfillment, programming, maintenance, marketing analysis, and more. They are a true end-to-end digital signage solution. AlivePromo uses Actionfigure® for transportation information, leveraging Actionfigure’s thousands of transportation feeds and ability to integrate custom and private transportation choices. …
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The latest Actionfigure Mobile app is available today for iOS and Android! Actionfigure Mobile gives your tenants and employees what they need to see all transportation choices in real-time. With this new version, Actionfigure Mobile adds the power of our trip planning platform, which helps new tenants find the best routes for regular trips, and helps employees with changing …
Since the onset of the pandemic in 2020, opinions of going to an office have radically changed. For people who were successful working remotely, the vast majority are not going back to five days in the office. In Manhattan, the largest central business district in the U.S. with over 500 million square feet of commercial …
Right sizing parking, or simply, determining the correct amount of parking spaces, is a shared challenge across commercial real estate and employers. There are no perfect solutions to determining the exact amount of parking required in a given situation. However, there are many ways to support reductions in parking, and to predict transit and shared …
A resurgence of ferries in Boston Harbor is responsive to growing real estate development and employment opportunities in the Seaport District, East Boston, and surrounding areas. It’s a fresh revitalization of one of Boston’s oldest ways to get around, and one of the most enjoyable ways to commute. Ferry service has been integral to Boston …
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Wells + Associates is a major transportation planning, engineering, and consulting firm. They work with real estate development and property owners and managers to improve transportation experiences, and their clients include many of the largest names in commercial real estate including Beacon, Greystar, Mill Creek, Cushman & Wakefield, and CBRE. Wells + Associates’ relationship with …
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Boston, the birthplace of public transit in America, has a rich 300+ year transportation history including ferries, horsecars, omnibuses, electric streetcars, and having the country’s first subway tunnels. Today, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), or the “T,” is one of the largest transit agencies in the U.S., is the largest in the country to …
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