Transportation

Mapping Transportation and Health in the United States

What is the relationship between car travel and health outcomes in the United States? Ariel Godwin and Anne Price challenge the claim that more time in the car decreases your health by looking at the impacts of education, income, and employment rates.

16 January 2012 - 10:00am

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Expanding the Hong Kong Subway, One Blast at a Time

In this video, host Richard Quest takes us underground to view the work firsthand, where two explosions occur daily right underneath dense city blocks.

11 February 2012 - 11:00am

CNN Business 360

Can An Electric Bike Replace A Car?

San Francisco will launch a pioneering electric bike share program this year, with the hope that pricing will help nudge consumers towards more efficient decisions, writes Sarah Laskow.

11 February 2012 - 9:00am

Good

The Growing Popularity of Women-Only Mass Transit

Over the past 100 years, women-only train cars have come and gone in Japan. Daniel Krieger reports on why these subway cars have endured amongst women’s concerns for safety.

11 February 2012 - 7:00am

The Atlantic Cities

Senate Yeas While House Nays on Transportation

Ben Goldman follows the recent developments as the Senate and House Transportation bills make their way through the Capitol.

10 February 2012 - 1:00pm

Streetsblog D.C.

NYT Editorial Blasts House Transportation Bill

Calling it "uniquely terrible", the Times questions whether it will even survive a full floor vote in the House. The editorial lists three major problems with the bill, but notes there are many more.

10 February 2012 - 6:00am

The New York Times - The Opinion Pages

Data Sharing Seen as Crucial to the Future of Public Transit

When civic leaders from around the world gathered for Vancouver's 2012 Cities Summit last week, urban transport was on everyone's lips, and information sharing was seen as the key to unlocking future successes.

9 February 2012 - 1:00pm

Vancouver Observer

Toronto City Council Defeats Mayor, Resurrects Transit City

In a stunning blow to Mayor Rob Ford -- who, on his first day in office in 2010 scrubbed the "Transit City" plan in favor of an ill-thought out and unfunded subway scheme -- the Toronto City Council has quashed his plans and resurrected the old one.

9 February 2012 - 12:00pm

Globe and Mail

Paris Authorizes Cyclists To Run Red Lights

In most cases, traffic signals are used to stop vehicles succumbing to Newton's law of motion, but a new decree in Paris will change that. Eighteen intersections are now subject to newly relaxed rules that allow cyclists to continue at red lights.

9 February 2012 - 9:00am

The Telegraph

A New (Old) Vision For Penn Station

Michael Kimmelman, newish architecture critic for The New York Times, adds his two cents to the decades old discussion of how to improve Penn Station. His solution starts with moving Madison Square Garden.

9 February 2012 - 5:00am

The New York Times

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Using the Wrong Metrics for Creating Great Streets

Gary Toth considers the damage to the quality of our streets and urban environments caused by the use of travel projection models and Levels of Service (LOS) as performance metrics.

8 February 2012 - 1:00pm

Project For Public Spaces

Effort to Make NYC Streets Safer Paying Dividends

Jane E. Brody reports on the safety features New York City has instituted as part of an ambitious effort to completely re-engineer city streets.

8 February 2012 - 12:00pm

The New York Times

House and Senate Transportation Bills on a Collision Course

As the bi-partisan Senate transportation bill cues up for its first vote on Thursday and the partisan House bill gets roughed up in committee, the prospects for reconciling the bills seems dim.

8 February 2012 - 11:00am

The Washington Post

What Has 16 Pedals, 12 Seats, and Goes Up to 10 MPH?

The first bicycle bus for schoolchildren, built by Dutch company Tolkamp Metaalspecials, of course.

8 February 2012 - 7:00am

Fast Co.Exist

New Study Ties Housing Affordability to Sustainability

Sarah Laskow reports on a new study by the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) that seeks to rethink how affordable housing is defined to incorporate transportation costs.

7 February 2012 - 2:00pm

Good

Waiting for the Subway

When compared to China's accomplishments in completing subway lines, North America's cities look exceedingly timid, where construction timeframes can stretch into decades. Will Doig examined why.

7 February 2012 - 6:00am

Salon.com

A Federal Assault on Transit

At the Transport Politic, Yonah Freemark provides a comprehensive overview of the 'all-out ideaoligical battle' being waged by the House GOP against public transit.

6 February 2012 - 2:00pm

the transport politic

Urbanists, Council Revolt Over Toronto's Transit Plans

Upon becoming Mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford killed existing public transit plans, declaring the "war on the car" over. Now a coalition of urbanists and a majority of city council members are turning against Ford's subway-only plan.

6 February 2012 - 1:00pm

The Globe and Mail

Why Your Cell Phone is the Most Promising Transportation Planning Tool

Emily Badger reports on the growing importance of the cellular phone, and particularly their location tracking capabilities, as the next most essential transportation planning tool.

6 February 2012 - 7:00am

The Atlantic Cities

Think Environmental Rules Are Holding Up Transportation Projects? Think Again.

Brad Plumer investigates widely echoed Republican claims that environmental rules are a major reason why it takes so long to build highways and bridges, and finds scant evidence to back up the claims.

6 February 2012 - 5:00am

The Washington Post