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+ Hungry to offer their talents towards a public cause, the attendees of ReRouteAVL’s Friday night community brainstorm made their case for a variety of potential alternatives to single passenger car-based transit. Organized by Code for Asheville, a local Code for America brigade, ReRouteAVL was held in a team-based competitive format, pitting local talent against local talent in a friendly and productive atmosphere. ReRouteAVL provided an opportunity for developers, engineers, designers, writers, organizers, and activists to showcase their talents and make a public impact in their own city. During Friday’s open forum at Mojo coworking, professionals from a multitude of backgrounds and disciplines offered their thoughts on technological possibilities to make alternative forms of transportation safer and more efficient. Solutions for carpooling, traffic density issues, parking, and bus locating were just a few of the many proposals submitted for consideration. +

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    + AVLRide: Carpooling Made Easy (http://www.avlride.com/): +

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    A neighborhood approach to carpooling to connect people who live in the same area and want to carpool to work in the same area. +

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    Where’s My Bus? (http://avlbus.com):

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    A nice mashup of NextBus real time bus data with Google Map directions so that a user can both see bus locations in real time and plan a route to a destination with that real time data. +

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    Statistical analysis of bike and pedestrian crash data to show which intersections and areas are particularly dangerous as well as the times of data that are most dangerous; huge potential for policy makers to improve safety of designated dangerous intersections +

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    Brainstorming and Paper Prototyping around transportation issues facing festival attendees.

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    Multi-modal map routing with the ability to provide comments about portions of cycling and walking routes. It also allows users to decide on the most important criteria for their trip - speed, cost, difficulty (e.g. steep terrain), or how scenic the route will be. +

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Hungry to offer their talents towards a public cause, the attendees of ReRouteAVL’s Friday night community brainstorm made their case for a variety of potential alternatives to single passenger car-based transit. Organized by Code for Asheville, a local Code for America brigade, ReRouteAVL was held in a team-based competitive format, pitting local talent against local talent in a friendly and productive atmosphere. ReRouteAVL provided an opportunity for developers, engineers, designers, writers, organizers, and activists to showcase their talents and make a public impact in their own city. During Friday’s open forum at Mojo coworking, professionals from a multitude of backgrounds and disciplines offered their thoughts on technological possibilities to make alternative forms of transportation safer and more efficient. Solutions for carpooling, traffic density issues, parking, and bus locating were just a few of the many proposals submitted for consideration.

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+Asheville City Councilmembers Gwen Wisler and Gordon Smith both offered their own perspectives on the current challenges the public faces in transportation, and implored the group to think creatively to find solutions to promote culture change, while also stressing the community significance of achieving the many goals that had been set; goals that would make Asheville safer and more transit friendly as it grows in both population and interconnectedness with other regions. The brainstorm on Friday saw a wide array of ideas that provided a spark of innovation that carried momentum into the next day. Both technical and non-technical professionals and citizens offered their thoughts, and the jovial atmosphere was a counterpoint to the diligent consideration that went into all of the project proposals.

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+The ideas that were put forth in the open forum were discussed, recorded, and were offered as inspiration for the teams that eventually banded together the next morning at the Masonic Temple. After a short introduction, teams of four to six people rallied around projects of particular interest and got to work. The criteria for project selections varied from team to team, but typically stemmed from a combination of practicality, community significance, and feasibility within the short time frame. In the end, only a few of the many ideas were selected by teams: +

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+Throughout the day the teammates pushed each other and pushed their projects to completion, stopping only when lunch and dinner were served. Many ate at their desks, and only took breaks to get up and stretch for a moment, and to walk around to keep the heart pumping and their mind sharp. Acquaintances became friends, and as the late afternoon encroached, team members were forced to assume unfamiliar roles, and project scopes were reconsidered for the sake of completion. Lofty goals were pushed aside in the wake of necessary requirements. The competitors acutely pivoted when needing to, adapting their projects as they were built to refine the core features and create shorter spanning but more completed functionality. +

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