transportation
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New report on state transportation policy shows a long road ahead
The best hope for reforms that would lead to a reduction in carbon emissions from transportation might lie with the states. Emphasis on might.
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Seattle's impending car-centric mega-tunnel: a chat with urbanist Cary Moon
Despite their ostentatious talk on climate, many Pacific Northwest political leaders don't seem to be making the transportation connection. Nowhere is that more evident than in the fight over how to replace Seattle's crumbling Alaskan Way Viaduct, a two-mile-long elevated stretch of State Route 99 running along the city's waterfront. The alternative with the most momentum is a gigantic bored tunnel -- a concrete-heavy, emissions-intensive, multi-billion-dollar piece of old-school highway infrastructure devoted almost entirely to cars, shuttling suburban drivers past the urban core. Sustainable urbanism advocate Cary Moon explains WTF.
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My complicated love affair with a little gray Honda
With car ownership came a nagging suspicion that I was on the wrong side of a Big Issue. My purist environmentalist friends were sure about it: Anyone who gets angry about the wars over oil, they told me, can't have a car and a clean conscience at the same time. I didn't know if it was so simple.
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FoodTubes wants to take food distribution back to the future
The brainchild of "a consortium of academics, project planners, and engineers," FoodTubes wants to move our fossil-fuel based transport system underground.
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Bicycle freight: thinking outside the box truck
Bicycles are already a major piece of the freight puzzle all over the world. Could the practice take off in U.S. cities as well?
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How will cities be shaped by transit in the future?
We constructed four future scenarios of transit in cities, speculating how forces like gas prices and city politics might change the way we move.
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A new study of data from Lyon's bike-share system could help planners
The hugely popular Velo'v bike-share system is providing a source for hard data on bicycling, having to do with travel times and routes.
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The most secure bike lock in the world (16-second video)
The drawbacks seem to be (1) it looks a little heavy to carry around and (2) if I were a bike thief, I can't imagine a challenge more fun to take on than stealing a bike suspended 20 feet in the air in broad daylight.
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‘The science of public transit is not too complicated’
Don't habit, social pressure, perceptions about what's pleasant and safe all affect which mode of transport people choose?
