I spied this drool-worthy scooter and sidecar combo on Scooter Sidecars.

Posted May 1, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Planes, Trains, & Automobiles. Tags: scooter, sidecar, sweet, transportation, Volkswagen, VW Bus. Be the first one.

You might not have cared to know the recommended trucking practices for pigs or other livestock, but Colorado State University professor Temple Grandin is happy to explain all of that and more. She’s got videos too.
Perhaps you know somebody who made a new year’s resolution to improve the way they truck their livestock?

Posted January 5, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches. Tags: agriculture, best practices, handling, livestock, pigs, Temple Grandin, transportation. One Comment.

The Usability Professionals’ Association says “a cell phone should be as easy to access as a doorknob.” And since 2005 they’ve been organizing World Usability Day to help make that happen. Locally the UPA Boston chapter is holding events at the Boston Museum of Science (in Cambridge, actually) that explore the clues we use to [...]

Posted November 13, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: transportation, UPA, usability, Usability Professionals Association, World Usability Day, WUD. Be the first one.

About 597,000 vehicular bridges nationwide, and 73,764 are “structurally deficient.”
Sources: 2006 National Bridge Inventory compiled by the U.S. Department of Transportation, American Society of Civil Engineers‘ Infrastructure Report Card, and Gannett.
transportation, infrastructure, bridges, structurally deficient, engineers

Posted August 19, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Planes, Trains, & Automobiles. Tags: bridges, engineers, infrastructure, structurally deficient, transportation. Be the first one.

My new scooter. It’s not much of a picture, but we’ve had two weeks of rain and this is what I could get.

Posted May 19, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog, Planes, Trains, & Automobiles. Tags: fuel economy, moped, scooter, silver, transportation, yamaha. 3 Comments.

It’s nearing the end of 2005 and we still don’t have any flying cars like we were promised, but the GEN H-4 personal helicopter looks promising (and dangerous). Here it is in the air, and I might be crazy, but it looks to be controlled by weight-shift (even more photos).
OhGizmo says it sells for about [...]

Posted October 29, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Planes, Trains, & Automobiles. Tags: air, aircraft, aviation, flying car, flying cars, gen h-4, helicopter, horsepower, japan, odd, personal aircraft, personal helicopter, rotors, transportation, ultralight, weight shift. 8 Comments.

I’m a fan of the Smart, the fuel efficient European roadster that’s smaller than a Mini (see above). It’s coming to America, but indirectly and not without some complexity. Oddly, considering the current energy crisis and that buyers appear to be looking for more efficient vehicles now, there’s a lot of red tape involved with [...]

Posted October 20, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog, Planes, Trains, & Automobiles. Tags: coming to america, complexity, efficient, energy, energy crisis, fuel, fuel crisis, fuel efficient, fuel efficient car, fuel efficient cars, hybrid, miles per gallon, mini, mpg, prius, roadster, smart, transportation. 14 Comments.

We’ve come to expect certain things. Cars have four wheels, for instance. And we expect two-wheeled vehicles look like bikes or motorcycles or scooters. Then came the Segway a few years ago and shifted the two-wheeled concept around. Now, a number of stories regarding vehicles of one, two, and three wheels have come out. They’re [...]

Posted February 11, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Planes, Trains, & Automobiles. Tags: bike, one wheeler, three wheeler, transportation, tricycle, two wheeler, unicycle, weird. 7 Comments.