Transportation

On some busy blocks, Uber and Lyft drivers have nowhere safe to park. Neither do parcel delivery personnel. Shared use mobility zones could address the problem.

February 1, 2018 - Eno Center for Transportation

Ride-hailing service Uber is piloting a new venture in San Francisco alongside dockless bike-sharing startup Jump.

February 1, 2018 - Modern Cities

"Rethinking Streets in an Era of Driverless Cars" presents ideas about how city planners, policy makers and community residents can begin thinking about street transformation in an AV era.

February 1, 2018 - Sustainable Cities Initiative

Despite being well-known and maligned for delays and overall service, Chicago is ranked the best city for air service.

February 1, 2018 - Forbes

Making streets, sidewalks safer for people with limited mobility.

January 31, 2018 - InTransition Magazine

Referencing three major themes can help make sense of urban planning news throughout 2018.

January 31, 2018 - James Brasuell

Giving pedestrians a head start at crosswalks is a simple fix that could save lots of lives. New York City has already seen a significant reduction in fatalities and injuries.

January 31, 2018 - CityLab

Value capture, collecting tax increment from subway adjacent properties to help provide money needed to repair the 114-year old subway system, is proposed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and opposed by the New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

January 31, 2018 - The New York Times

A subsidiary of Alibaba, the massive online retailer, will deploy cloud computing and artificial intelligence to help relieve congestion in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

January 30, 2018 - Quartz

Jarrett Walker discusses some reasons why transit authorities can be resistant to change. It all comes down to considering their point of view.

January 30, 2018 - Human Transit

Streets will have to evolve, again.

January 30, 2018 - New York Magazine

Bus riders, comprising about three-quarters of Los Angeles Metro ridership, declined 21 percent since 2013, But it wasn't just bus routes—two light rail lines also lost riders.

January 29, 2018 - Los Angeles Times

The rise of online retail has come with a flurry of delivery trucks that don't always have good places to stop. Researchers from Amazon's hometown are on the case.

January 29, 2018 - Landscape Architecture Magazine

Infrastructure, climate change, and natural disasters were among the themes of the California governor's final address to the legislature and public. Two of his accomplishments, high-speed rail and increasing the gas tax, face uncertain futures.

January 28, 2018 - The New York Times

The complete streets movement calls for streets to be designed—or redesigned—in order to accommodate a broad range of users and uses.

January 28, 2018 - InTransition Magazine

No, technology and private industry is not ending the need for public transit, according to Jarrett Walker.

January 28, 2018 - CityLab

The North Sounder commuter rail service from Seattle to Everett could increase ridership by adding four stations in the city of Seattle.

January 28, 2018 - The Urbanist

A $2.3 billion extension of the CTA's Red Line would be the first extension of a Chicago's "L" line since 1993.

January 27, 2018 - Chicago Tribune

Autonomous vehicles replacing fixed transit may be on the minds of many in the transportation world, but that's not stopping cities from upgrading and building around their transit lines.

January 27, 2018 - Modern Cities

By 2030, the world's consumption of oil will drop due to increasing electric vehicle sales, according to a report by Bank of America. Other researchers disagree on the timeframe. The report is useful for highlighting the term, "peak oil demand."

January 26, 2018 - Bloomberg News