Richard Dion wrote:
Biking during the pandemic has not only been a welcome reprieve from public transport, but it has also demonstrated its considerable health, environmental, and time benefits. A steady increase over the years has been met with a tidal wave of interest in just months. Biking’s traditional benefits aside, surface thickness is perhap...
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Nicole A. Murray wrote:
Pedestrianization, congestion pricing, dedicated bus and bike lanes, parking maximums, and transit-oriented development dominate the headlines when it comes to reducing the number of cars in cities. Presumptive mayor Eric Adams even tweeted on Saturday in support of congestion pricing. But there is one unsung tactic that reduces the number o...
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Diana Ionescu wrote:
The choice between driving and using other modes of transit, Noor writes, "creates an inherent paradox. If more people decide that driving is quicker, there will be more traffic, clogging streets and making trips longer. The longest trips across town, the authors found, were the ones taken when every single resident trie...
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Roger Rudick wrote:
The near total dominance of cars and car infrastructure in American cities aren’t just killing us directly in crashes, it’s harming us every day through less obvious health effects. “It puts people in a constant state of stress,” said Melissa Bruntlett, co-author of Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars i...
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Todd Litman wrote:
This is a good time to critically reexamine transportation planning documents. Transportation planning is undergoing a paradigm shift that is changing the way we define problems and evaluate potential solutions. The old paradigm was mobility-based, which assumed that our goal is simply to maximize travel speeds. A new paradigm is more comprehensive...
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Kea Wilson wrote:
Pittsburgh just became the first U.S. community where every resident can feasibly and affordably trade their private cars for an app.
Today, the Steel City will launch its long-awaited Move PGH pilot, which is being touted as the first comprehensive “mobility as a service” (MaaS) app in United States history. Under th...
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ichael Podgers wrote:
We envision a boulevard that runs along the western edge of the parkland instead of through the green space. We want a multimodal road (again, not a highway) with mixed-traffic lanes reduced from the current eight to two in each direction. We want to see gold standard Bus Rapid Transit built tha...
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Laura Bliss wrote:
In May, the agency published a request for information seeking public input on a list of questions such as, “If the department were to create transportation equity indices, what key indicators should they include?” and, “What are approaches that DOT can take to ensure that individuals from underserved populations are represented in ou...
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Kea Wilson wrote:
A coalition of academics from around the world modeled what would happen if all residents of a car-centric city made their transportation choices solely on the basis of how much time they would save by taking the fastest mode available to them — which, for most of them, would be a persona...
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Melissa Bruntlett & Chris Bruntlett wrote:
The spatial demands of a car-centric city were glaringly irreconcilable with Delft’s small, compact nature, so Volmuller’s top-down, wholistic plan was embraced as a substitute. Critically, it dealt with the management of car traffic, public transport, and cycling as separate—but interconnected—mobility networks.
Recognizing that the most effective way t...
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