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24 alternatives to 99% Invisible: Public Works: Rethinking America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Roads? Where we're going ... we need better roads!

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. 99% Invisible: Public Works: Rethinking America’s Transportation Infrastructure launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars▲65
An urban transformation is underway
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
2
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (What It Says About Us)▲64
Loads of counterintuitive lessons about driving
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
3
Road Mapp▲3
Help the government build better roads
2016 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
4
What the Street▲61
Visualize the distribution of mobility spaces in cities
2017 · its alternatives →
5
Solar Roadways ▲83
Incredible modular paving system of solar panels.
2014 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →
6
Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road▲58
One view on why the US auto industry fell apart.
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
7
Open Road▲117
The one app for driving
2015 · its alternatives →
8
SmoothRide InfrastructureGPT▲64
Citizens 🤝 AI towards more livable places
2023 · smoothri.de · its alternatives →
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Transform Your City▲77
Hey HN, As noted in a previous comment posted on the "Paris Will Become ‘100% Cyclable’" thread [0], I've been contributing to a project (as a volunteer backend developer) to try to accelerate urban change around pedestrian/cyclable/car-free streets. It's "change.org for urban transformation". It started with a Twitter account posting Dall-E-ified versions of streets [1] which picked up steam in the press [2]. And now, we're live with our own site! Happy to answers questions, and other folks from the project might chime in as well. [0]…
2022 · transformyour.city · its alternatives →
10
Need For Speed▲86
An open world of urban car culture and speed
2015 · ea.com · its alternatives →
11
Highways▲84
Connect your conversational tools to the rest of your stack.
2020 · highways.io · its alternatives →
12
Lyft for Work▲107
Simplify your team’s transportation
2014 · lyft.com · its alternatives →
13
Aha! Starter Roadmap▲149
The new way product managers build visual roadmaps
2017 · aha.io · its alternatives →
14
RoadTrippers▲130
Discover your America
2014 · roadtrippers.com · its alternatives →
15
Citymapper▲204
The ultimate transport apps
2014 · citymapper.com · its alternatives →
16
Mapbox Studio▲95
A design platform for radically custom maps
2014 · mapbox.com · its alternatives →
17
City Pulse▲101
REST API for public transportation data
2014 · its alternatives →
18
Voyage▲113
"Now deploying self-driving taxis in California"
2017 · its alternatives →
19
miDrive▲56
Reinventing learner driving with technology
2014 · its alternatives →
20
What Hurts - 6: The Need for Speed▲56
We all have the answers before we have the facts or context.
2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
21
Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead▲62
They are definitely coming. What does that mean for you?
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
22
This Week in Startups - Ep. 581: The Future of Transportation▲104
Jason chats with Uber, Tesla, and Delivery Hero at the Stoc…
2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
23
Smarking▲111
Data Analytics for Parking
2015 · smarking.net · its alternatives →
24
Awesome Maps▲98
Putting the awesome back in maps
2017 · awesome-maps.com · its alternatives →

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