• A New Road for London (BusAndTrainUser) • London St. Pancras Highspeed (formerly HS1) announces incentive scheme to grow international rail services (Rail UK) • Camden High Street’s pedestrianisation trial starts in May (Ian Visits) …
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New Study Quantifies Just How Much Highways Block Social Connection (NextCity)
Anew study confirms what urban residents and advocates have known for decades: that America’s urban highways are barriers to social connection. The research, published this month in the journal PNAS, quantifies for the first time how …
Continue readingYes, AI really can be used to tackle potholes, efficiently (JamesO’Malley)
… Potholes vs AI The way that your local authority currently maintains the roads is probably pretty torturous. Typically, the council employs a team of highway safety inspectors, whose job it is to go out …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 13 January 2025
• Global (non-US) Rapid Transit Projects planned to open in 2025 (TransportPolitic) • Matthew Somerville pulls Live Underground Train Tracker due to possible legal action (CLondoner92) • How Madrid built its Metro Cheaply (WorksInProgress) • …
Continue readingSan Francisco just sacrificed thousands of parking spaces for safety (SFStandard)
It’s Monday, and San Francisco just lost around 14,000 parking spaces as a change to the vehicle code — the Daylighting to Save Lives Bill (AB 413) — went into effect, requiring California cities to “daylight” intersections. …
Continue readingMunicipal Speeding Reduction of 64% in Intelligent Speed Assistance Trial (CityOfNewYork)
The New York City Intelligent Speed Assistance Pilot Evaluation report found that speeding incidences were reduced by 64% compared to pre-ISA testing. The Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) in partnership with the U.S. Department …
Continue readingPollution levels fall 20% in Glasgow after launch of low-emission zone LEZ (CitiesToday)
Air pollution levels in Glasgow’s low-emission zone (LEZ) fell by an average of 20 percent last year according to a newly released report. The city council’s air quality report for 2023 also revealed an overall average drop …
Continue readingWindshield Bias, Car Brain, Motornormativity: Same Obscured Public Health Hazards (Findings)
Our transportation systems shape and are shaped by attitudes, norms, and biases. Understanding how to shift these in positive directions can help address the pernicious public health challenges of traffic crashes, urban sprawl, inequities in …
Continue readingPublic Transport Issues in Converting Retail Barns to Housing (TransportForNewHomes)
One trend we are happy to see is the conversion of large obsolete car dependent out-of-town retail barns to new uses. Although the policy looks good on paper, we have identified some issues from a …
Continue readingThe Risks of Self-Fulfilling Traffic Forecasts (Planetizen)
Transportation agencies continue to apply predict-and-provide planning which simply extrapolates past trends to predict future needs. It’s time to apply decide-and-provide planning to better achieve community goals. The U.S. Department of Transportation just released its …
Continue readingResults from the 2023 National Travel Survey analysed (Mobility Matters)
A few weeks back, the latest results from the National Travel Survey for 2023 were released by the Department for Transport. Being the closest thing that transport statistics in the UK has to a bible, it caused …
Continue readingNew York City’s Bus Lane Evolution (UrbanOmnibus)
New York City’s public transportation is in the midst of a slow-moving crisis. Years of deferred maintenance, staff shortages, and insufficient funding have left subway commuters navigating regular delays and bus passengers riding the slowest buses …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 26 August 2024
• UK 20mph Zones & LTNs: Transport Minister Open to More Limits (CityLab) • Discovery of Victorian network under city’s streets set new challenge for London Museum (The Guardian) • Inside & Underneath the Class …
Continue readingChicago’s Railroad Congestion Problem Spills over onto Roads (HomeSignal)
In February 2023, two thousand feet of Chicago’s South Normal Boulevard disappeared. The street’s end came at the hands of Norfolk Southern’s 47th Street intermodal terminal, a facility which moves thousands of containers a year …
Continue readingUS urban roadways take 25% of urbanized land worth $4.1 Trillion (Nat’lBureauEconomicResearch)
We predict the amount, share, and value of land dedicated to roadways within and across 316 US Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Despite the amount and value of land dedicated to roadway, our study provides the …
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