1) Video Interviews with the Spartan Daily - Dr. Furman mentioned in class that we made the front page of the Spartan Daily. Some of you may have also seen the video produced by the Spartan Daily that was emailed earlier this week. I helped schedule these video interviews and offered my time to help in getting our project some more exposure around campus. I am still in talks with the Journalism students and we might do a second video in the Spring possibly around the time of Maker Faire.
2) Sub Team presentations - Since my last post I've spent a lot of time digging into the available information on existing wayside implementations for PRT and mass transportation in order to prepare for subteam presentations. For anyone that is interested there was one article in particular that I found to be very enlightening. It is an assessment produced by the Department of Transportation for Washington DC and I think it's beneficial for us to see how different technologies are perceived by the kinds of people who ultimately will make the decision whether or not our transportation system will get implemented. We can learn two major things from these types of publications. First, we can benefit from the extensive time put in by others to understand the state of transportation technologies. Second, we can get valuable insight into what effects the decisions of transportation officials.
http://www.dcstreetcar.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Final-Report-August-1-2014-for-CD-SectionA.pdf
3) I'm planning a day for team photos with the help of Dr. Furman. We have another presentation due in two weeks and everyone should be looking nice and that might be a good day to do it. I will eventually be taking individual member photos as well, and if there is time I might try to squeeze this in on the same day.
