Kea Wilson
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Can Ford Help Design a Better Intersection?
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A potentially groundbreaking new tool could help give US planners key insights into the most dangerous segments of their road network — and how to fix them — with the click of a single button. The only problem? An automaker made it.
The History of AVs — And the Future
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Alex Davies new book, "Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car," offers a glimpse into an industry that will rapidly upend our transportation landscape — and some worry will kill even more vulnerable road users.
Study: App Taxis Can More than Double VMTs
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The average Uber or Lyft customer is responsible for adding more than twice as many car miles to his city's roads as he was before he started using app-taxis to get around.
Highlights from Buttigieg's Confirmation Hearing
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The Secretary of Transportation nominee, Pete Buttigieg, used his confirmation hearing to reaffirm his support for mass transit and complete streets.
The US DOT Needs an Active Transportation Czar
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Giving people who walk and roll a voice in Washington is a crucial tool in the fight to change the federal structures that underlie our car-only transportation landscape.
The First Traffic Violence Widower is Now President
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Joe Biden is president — the first one in U.S. history who's lost a child and a spouse to our national traffic violence epidemic.
Four Big Questions about Biden's Transportation Relief
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Transit advocates are applauding President-elect Biden's COVID-19 relief plan, but wonder whether it will be enough to save the green modes that millions of Americans rely on.
NHTSA Blames Everyone But Itself For Crash Spike
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The Trump administration's top roadway safety agency offered a final kiss-off to America by blaming drivers for killing each other so much last year — with zero acknowledgement of the administration's own failures to implement life-saving policies.
Drivers Are Still Top Polluters, Even During Quarantine
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Not even months of quarantine orders that confined millions of Americans to their homes were enough to unseat passenger vehicle trips as the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, a new study finds.
Are Augmented Windshields the End of Distracted Driving?
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If a new style of head-up design works as designed, cars will be safer.
Champs-Élysées Makeover Inspires U.S. Advocates
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As Parisians celebrate a new plan to pedestrianize the Champs-Élysées and cut car traffic in half, Americans street safety advocates demand redesigns for their own cities' dangerous downtown arteries.
Senate Considering $10B for Highway Removal
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Cities might soon get the kind of federal money they need to tear down the downtown highways that federal dollars paid them to build — and to reinvest in communities of color that those highways destroyed.