Transportation
The Streetcar Trend
Despite recent news about monorails, four southern cities are reviving or extending their streetcar lines -- part of a larger national trend.
Transportation Demand Management Encyclopedia
The Victoria Transport Policy Institute has updated it's online Transportation Demand Management Encyclopedia.
9/11 Funds For Rail Link
Proposed direct rail link John F. Kennedy Airport to Lower Manhattan.
Seattle Wants Street Cars
Seattle city council endorses an extension to the current street car line.
Calif. Cabinet Secretary Endorses 'Anti-Dumb Growth'
California Secretary of Business, Transportation & Housing details the Schwarzenegger Administration's efforts to fight dumb growth.
Abandoning New Light Rail Line For Old Car
Delays, inconvenience and inefficient service force LA Times reporter to abandon use of Pasadena Gold Line.
Can Urban Infrastructure Be Saved By Corporate Naming?
Cities consider selling naming rights to subway stations, bus lines, bridges and tunnels.
California Jumps On The Transit Community Bandwagon
Orange County, with little open land and high housing demand, broke ground on its first brownfield mass-transit-oriented development.
L.A.'s Gold Line Ponders Failures, Achievements
The Gold Line LRT, which connects central Los Angeles to Pasadena, has failed to meet predicted ridership levels. Yet rail authorities remain hopeful.
Moscow Drowning In Traffic
The number of cars in Moscow has quadrupled since 1987.
Increase in Intermodal Rail Traffic Strains Infrastructure
Trains and trucks are rolling again as the economy improves. But the recovery of the freight business brings challenges for infrastructure strained by increasing traffic. [Link corrected]
Introducing The Strip's New Monorail
The long-awaited Vegas monorail takes off. Will it fly?
Full Speed Ahead For Rapid Transit To Indianapolis
The Indianapolis area could see the region's first rapid-transit line as soon as 2011, serving as many as 20,000 to 30,000 people on a Northeast route that will connect Hamilton County with downtown.
Riding Around Town In A Greasemobile
Rising gas prices got you down? Cheap fuel for your car may be as close as the deep fryer at your local diner.
Are SUV Drivers 'Idiots'?
The Mayor of London wants to levy a double congestion charge on SUVs. Are SUV owners "bad people"?
Delaware River Skyway In Limbo
An aerial link could shuttle tourists between Philadelphia and Camden, bringing new income to the cash-strapped cities. Critics claim the whole scheme could be yet another boondoggle along the waterfront.
Charging Up The Freeway
Tolls for fast lanes near cities would reduce traffic snarls -- and snarling drivers.
Great Rail Disasters
Randal O'Toole publishes a report showing the harmful effects of light rail on 23 major metropolitan centers across the U.S.
For Whom The Road Tolls
Challenged with easing choking levels of traffic congestion, Britain considers a nationwide highway toll system that could charge drivers as much as £1.45 ($2.71 US) per mile.
Toronto Group Pits Man Vs. Machine
In a three-way battle for transportation supremacy, a bicyclist, a subway rider, and driver race from the suburbs to downtown at rush hour. The challenge is for a report on the city's vitality.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
City of Thousand Oaks
City of Wisconsin Rapids
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
