By Joe Cortright Published October 24th, 2017 Going faster doesn’t mean your city gets anywhere more quickly, and it doesn’t make you happier One of the key metrics guiding transportation policy is speed: how quickly can you get from point A to point B. But is going faster a good guide to how we ought to…
By Sarah Jo Peterson It’s over. The boom in car-free and car-lite living that led urbanists and the media to speculate that Americans were letting go of automobiles is over. The boom isn’t just over: all traces of it have been erased. The United States is arguably more car-oriented today than it was in 2006. We…
By Angie Schmitt Published on Oct 11, 2017 In 2016, 37,461 people were killed in motor vehicle crashes, according to official statistics recently released by U.S. DOT — a 5 percent increase over the previous year. Coming on top of the 9 percent increase in 2015, that adds up to the worst two-year swing in traffic deaths in more…
Published March 1st, 2017 by Peter Calthrope and Jerry Walters Every new transportation technology affects the geography of communities and the structure of people’s lives. Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are one such technology. Just as the freeway system or the streetcar network shaped past cities and lifestyles, AVs will remake the metropolis once again. The question…
Published January 13th, 2017 Over the last decade, the future of cars has been at the heart of controversy that has been the subject of numerous prospective studies. This controversy is not about the need for an energy transition – whose advent is no longer a subject of debate – but more about the role…
Published by Francesca Perry on November 25th, 2016 Commutes that cause panic attacks – but the kindness of a village community. Jakarta’s residents tell us what life in the city is really like – and why they have such a love/hate relationship with the Indonesian capital. Throughout our live week of in-depth reporting on Jakarta, we’ve…
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 6TH, 2016. MOBILE LIVE FORUM’S RESEARCH LIVING IN THE MOBILITY TRANSITION FIRST RESULTS Tim Cresswell The transition to low-carbon mobilities is only partly technological We have to think about futures that are less dependent on oil and produce less greenhouse gases. This transition to low or non-carbon mobilities is what I want to talk…
By John Zimmer, Published September 18th, 2016 Introduction: A Country Built for Cars I remember when I first fell in love with cars. It started small with Hot Wheels when I was three and Micromachines when I was six. Everything about them was fast and exciting — even the commercials were narrated by the World’s Fastest Talker.…
By Aarian Marshall, Published on September 28th, 2016 THE NATIONAL POLITICAL dialogue is suffused with substantive issues like Benghazi, beauty pageants, and the best debate memes. But the biggest bugbear in neighborhood politics just got some serious side eye from the Obama administration: Parking. It sounds bitty and trivial, but parking is a very big deal in…
By Aarian Marshall, Published September 19th, 2016 THE APOCALYPSE IS nigh. In 2019, New York City plans to shut down the portion of the L subway line that runs under the East River and across Manhattan, for a full 18 months of work to repair the damage wrought by Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Make no…
A post-automobile world? 