Kea Wilson wrote:
In the first-ever study of the holistic health impacts of e-scooters, researchers from micromobility outfit Spin found that 69 percent of the company’s riders either “agreed” or “strongly agreed” with the statement “riding a shared scooter improves my mental health” — with a majority of riders further specifying that the mode mad...
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Richard Day wrote:
UCLA professor and parking expert Donald Shoup estimates that in Chicago an above-ground parking spot costs about $29,000 to build, and an underground spot comes in at a cool $36,000. And because those minimum parking rules force builders to create a large number of extra empty spots, the actual rate buildings ca...
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Roger Rudick wrote:
Berlin has the highest share of people walking, biking, and using public transit to work (86%) of all European capitals. Not surprising, considering only one third of Berliners own a car. Astoundingly, there are more people biking in Berlin than in the four other major European capitals combined! Read it and weep...
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Kea Wilson wrote:
If U.S. leaders take aggressive, but realistic, action to replace car trips with bike trips by 2050, they could prevent more than 15,000 premature deaths every year — and not just in traffic crashes, a new study finds.
In the first study ever to model the comprehensive global public health impacts o...
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Brandon Bordenkircher wrote:
E-scooters launched unexpectedly in the United States in the fall of 2017, wrecking havoc on many unsuspecting city residents and offering a novel new transportation option to others. Cities were forced to spring into action and formulate the best way to respond to this new mobility option. Policymakers ran the gamut o...
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Kea Wilson wrote:
City residents must massively increase the percentage of journeys they take on public transportation and using active modes within 10 years if the world is going to meet its climate targets, a new report argues — but federal governments aren’t stepping up to make it happen.
The new study delivered to climate leader...
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James Brasuell wrote:
Radical Rethink: Couple Mobility and Housing
To solve this Gordian Knot, mobility and housing could be and should be coupled. Many of America’s largest cities have major interchanges usually with adjacent unused patches of land. Using the city of Los Angeles as an example, some of its major interchanges include the 405/10...
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Steve Wright wrote:
As a planner and planning storyteller, I love walkable places; mixed-use, wide sidewalks; bike paths; premium transit; parks; transit-oriented development; compact development; and the like. But for many years, I wasn’t good at practicing what I preached.
Then COVID hit and I could work from home, so I wasn’t in the ca...
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Diana Ionescu wrote:
Gutierrez recommends ways that cities can get ahead of this second looming 'carpocalypse.'
Getting rid of parking minimums now and allowing developers to redevelop existing parking, for instance, is a smart way to prepare for a future where a small number of driverless vehicles circle the city and only stop to pic...
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John Stout wrote:
In addition to providing billions of dollars to electrify our fossil-fuel powered vehicles and expand charging infrastructure, an unexpected form of clean transportation — e-bikes — has arisen as a legislative priority due to their huge potential to help us reimagine how we get around.
In a nod to the nascent America...
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